{"id":1413,"date":"2016-06-01T01:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2016-06-01T01:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:55:03","slug":"tecfest-new-zealand-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2016\/06\/01\/tecfest-new-zealand-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"TecFest\u00a0New Zealand\u00a02016\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0Friday\u00a0the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0of May\u00a0Rachel and I (Jacob) headed to MiCamp for\u00a0TecFest\u00a0which was at Lake\u00a0Taupo. It was a long trip and we had the music blasting, I even managed to get a quick snooze before all the diving started!<\/p>\n

\"Deep<\/a>We got to\u00a0TecFest\u00a0just after the first talk and we got our\u00a0goody bags.\u00a0We were\u00a0entered into spot prizes and had to wear a Dive Rite cap the whole weekend! Rachel took\u00a0me down to the lake to start\u00a0meeting\u00a0other divers\u00a0that were at the event. I even managed to sneak in a deep dive with the Victoria\u00a0University\u00a0guys we went down to 22m for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Later that night we went to the Cave Diving talk! This was a very interesting talk and\u00a0\u00a0it\u00a0really opened my eyes into all the different\u00a0types\u00a0of\u00a0tech\u00a0diving. I can tell you now that it looks amazing.<\/p>\n

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The next day was pretty full on! We started off with breakfast then we\u00a0went down to the Lake to start our day\u00a0off. I had\u00a0try dives that I wanted to do and those were,\u00a0Side mount, twins, and back plate and wing. I ended up not doing\u00a0dry suit\u00a0as I was already soaked from my wet suit. The first dive of the day was my side mount try dive. Side mount was my\u00a0favorite try dive we swam out to 10 meters unclipping the bottom of our tanks and swinging them in front of us and also doing share air drills. This was\u00a0definitely an awesome experience\u00a0plus having two tanks is even better.<\/p>\n

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Next dive I tried out the Apex\u00a0backplate\u00a0and wing with their Apex Regulators. This was very interesting as it wasn\u2019t like your standard BCD jacket. I found it very odd as it wasn\u2019t fitted to me correctly but I loved being able to put it on\/off so\u00a0easily\u00a0with no effort. This did make me\u00a0a bit\u00a0wobbly\u00a0during\u00a0the dive but hey it’s all in the learning experience and it doesn\u2019t help being slightly overweighted…<\/p>\n

My last Try dive was on TWINS! And wow what an experience that was. I went\u00a0with a\u00a0French\u00a0man and the instructor Simon, I struggled to stay at the\u00a0bottom at 3m. This didn\u2019t make it that much fun at all. We ended up going\u00a0roughly\u00a0to\u00a015m and oh boy I didn\u2019t struggle keeping down anymore! I found that at that depth it was a lot of fun since I could be\u00a0neutrally\u00a0buoyant. We did sharing air skills and also played around getting the feeling for twins. I had fun rolling around with all the weight and it really did affect my buoyancy, getting out of the water was the hard part.<\/p>\n

Well that was the end of my diving for that day. We all just relaxed at the end of the day and I got to meet some really interesting people and finding out all the different ways people dive it was really cool. Later that night was a couple more talks and spot prizes! I ended up winning a mask strap which is nice, sadly I can’t use it since I lost my mask a couple of weeks back.. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

After\u00a0TecFest\u00a0a group of us went and dived the\u00a0Waikato\u00a0river and\u00a0boy that was fun! I started on 180 bar and went straight down to 50 bar\u00a0within\u00a030\u00a0minutes. Trust me it\u2019s a drift dive for a reason you can’t fight it, it will always win!<\/p>\n

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But in the end it was an amazing weekend and I would like to thank Rachel for all her help\u00a0and of course TecFest New\u00a0Zealand\u00a0they did an amazing job sorting and\u00a0organizing\u00a0a great weekend.<\/p>\n

Jacob – Tertiary Dive Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0Friday\u00a0the 6th\u00a0of May\u00a0Rachel and I (Jacob) headed to MiCamp for\u00a0TecFest\u00a0which was at Lake\u00a0Taupo. It was a long trip and we had the music blasting, I even managed to get a quick snooze before all the diving started! We got to\u00a0TecFest\u00a0just after the first talk and we got our\u00a0goody bags.\u00a0We were\u00a0entered into spot prizes and had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}