{"id":2911,"date":"2022-03-01T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2022-03-01T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:04:18","slug":"meeting-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2022\/03\/01\/meeting-keegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Keegan!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>Kia ora koutou! My name is Keegan and I&#8217;m from Upper Hutt. <br>Born and bred!<br> <br>I started diving in early 2021- when I did my Open Water Course with Claire and Aimee here at Dive HQ Wellington. After a few club dives with Claire and Alan, I became hooked on diving and the Wellington coastline.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KF2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2896\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=2896\" class=\"wp-image-2896\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KF3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2897\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=2897\" class=\"wp-image-2897\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KF4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2898\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=2898\" class=\"wp-image-2898\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Having left the UK late 2020, I figured, with the global pandemic going on- it&#8217;d be a great time to study. That&#8217;s when I took up study full-time at Dive Wellington in the Diploma of Professional Scuba instruction. It was a fantastic year filled with cool events like diving the F-69 Frigate wreck, K\u0101piti and Mana island excursions and deep diving in Lake Taup\u014d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KF3.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2899\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=2899\" class=\"wp-image-2899\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My fave dive site has to be Taup\u014d. It has such unique volcanic topography and interesting marine life. Here is also where I experienced getting narc&#8217;d for the first time. The crayfish in those waters arent too shy either!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards the end of the year between assisting on courses with Dive Wellington and studying Te reo M\u0101ori at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa in Lower Hutt, I was also volunteering at Dive HQ by helping out in the pools and manning the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/KF2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2900\" width=\"194\" height=\"242\"\/><figcaption>Keegan &#8211; Instructor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Before returning to Aotearoa, I spent time travelling Europe, enjoying holidays in some classic tourist spots like Paris,  the Greek Islands &amp; Amsterdam as well as flying under the radar in several locations in Eastern Europe. Based in London I was working full time and playing rugby for one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world. One of the highlights with those lads was to play on tour along-side them in France.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMeeting local diver and our new instructor &#8211; Keegan!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}