Our dive club headed to Tubbataha in the Philippines on a liveaboard adventure. With 20 incredible dives and a variety of marine life we had a great trip
Tubbataha – where in the world is that?
Dive trip
Tantalising Tamatea: The Return
Starring: Paddy, Richard, Carole, Brian M, Judy, Geoff, Brian B, Jerry, Darren, Michelle, Sam ‘Twas the night before our planned departure, when Jacinda & Ashleigh called an emergency Press Conference to announce a rise in COVID alert levels… deja vu anyone, didn’t this happen prior to last year’s trip? Thankfully as we were fully vaxed […]
Explore NZ Underwater!
You learnt to dive overseas or only dive on holiday – why is that? Perhaps you think NZ is too cold, lacks colour or is just not exciting enough NZ water is coldThere is no disputing that we dive in temperate waters with temperatures in single digits down south up to 25 C in Northland. […]
Diving in Tauranga
Over the Easter weekend our Dive Club made a trip up to Tauranga to do some warmer diving. What a change, to be able to see 20m instead of five. We stayed at a Backpackers called Hugo and Carters. Which was a small, modern backpackers, situated only 5 minutes from the Marina! Day 1. The […]
September 2018 Monthly Madness Draw – PADI Advanced Open Diver Course
You have finished your Open Water Course and discovered that the little diving bug in side you has grown and you are now looking for your next underwater adventure. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course (AOW) is the next step. This course focuses on the practical elements of diving from identifying marine life to […]
How To Choose a Dive Site
Choosing the right dive site for the day is the number one way to make or break a day of diving. Every diver out there would probably agree that choosing the best dive site gets easier with experience, but very rarely does anyone explain what to consider in choosing a site. For me there are […]
Napier Trip 2013
So this year we headed up to the aquarium, the difference Me the newbie Instructor was running it! Really Claire you trust me to run a trip??? On top of that we had our littlest club mascots Emma and Caitlin joining us and Barbara joining us for an intro dive with the sharks! So needless […]