{"id":1779,"date":"2017-10-20T05:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2017-10-20T05:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T05:11:19","slug":"white-island-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/white-island-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"White Island 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

What an awesome trip!! The long drive to Whakatane was sooo worth it.<\/p>\n

First off, the company was epic from the start. We came from all different walks of life. We all met at the accommodation the night before our dive to get the details sorted. The next morning, we met the skipper Grant at the wharf.\u00a0 What an awesome guy with so much knowledge.\u00a0 We all got our kit on before boarding the boat due to limited space.\u00a0 The boat ride itself was epic. 1 and a half hours to get to the dive site.\u00a0 What a beautiful view though, such amazing views and we saw a massive ray on the surface as travelling to the dive site.<\/p>\n

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Finally got to the site and got our dive brief from Grant to depth about the site and what we were expected to see. This was my first boat dive at depth so I was a bit nervous\u2026to say the least.<\/p>\n

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I was not prepared for what I saw. The amount of different marine life I saw was epic!!! Pink and Blue Maomao, moray and conger eel, kingfish, different nudibranch, leather jackets, amazing coloured moki and wrasse and also a beautiful black and yellow fish that I\u2019m not actually sure what it is. (It was a Lord Howe Coralfish – Claire)<\/p>\n

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The vis was totally superb, the deeper you got, the brighter it became\u2026weird but quite awesome.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t even realise you were going unless you were checking your depth gauge.\u00a0 The water temp was a good 12 \u2013 14 degrees, just like Wellington really.\u00a0 There was sooo much to see at the dive sites, and amazing scenery with the volcano and just enjoying lunch with amazing views and good people.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I would definitely do it again and would love to do another boat trip with Grant to one of his many sites he travels.\u00a0 Worth the long drive from Wellington.\u00a0 Definitely recommended giving it a jam!!!<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 Sorry no photos\u2026no camera\u2026sad!!!\u00a0 (We have you covered)<\/p>\n

Gee – Divemaster<\/p>\n

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What an awesome trip!! The long drive to Whakatane was sooo worth it. First off, the company was epic from the start. We came from all different walks of life. We all met at the accommodation the night before our dive to get the details sorted. The next morning, we met the skipper Grant at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-event","category-dive-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}