{"id":4143,"date":"2025-08-09T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:33:11","slug":"4143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/08\/09\/4143\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 20th Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#x1f30a; Dive HQ Wellington | We have turned 20!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have come along way since we opened in 2005 and we could not&nbsp;have reached this milestone without the support and encouragement from you &#8211; our local dive community. We have met, chatted and dived with so many amazing divers (&amp; a few &#8216;interesting&#8217; ones as well) over the years. We look forward to sharing many more adventures in the years ahead.<br><br>A very special thank you to everyone that joined in our celebrations yesterday with games, prizes, a pot luck dinner and a very blue cake. To those who rang or sent through messages of support thank you and we love the images of your early dives with us &#8211; please keep them coming in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4265-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" data-id=\"4147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4265-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4265-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4265-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4265-1024x683.jpg 1024w, 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