{"id":4224,"date":"2025-11-02T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:03:32","slug":"dive-hqs-monthly-review-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/dive-hqs-monthly-review-november-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive HQ&#8217;s Monthly Review &#8211; November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Turquoise-Blue-Photo-Collage-Summer-Sea-Vacation-Facebook-Cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Turquoise-Blue-Photo-Collage-Summer-Sea-Vacation-Facebook-Cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Turquoise-Blue-Photo-Collage-Summer-Sea-Vacation-Facebook-Cover.png 851w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Turquoise-Blue-Photo-Collage-Summer-Sea-Vacation-Facebook-Cover-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Turquoise-Blue-Photo-Collage-Summer-Sea-Vacation-Facebook-Cover-768x284.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#x1f30a; Dive Club Wellington | What\u2019s On This Month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather&nbsp;certainly has been wild but we&nbsp;have some newly certified Open Water Divers keen to join us for for some fun dives. Our club divers have returned from a great trip exploring the the Mikhail Lermontov wreck in the Malborough Sounds &#8211; making the most of the long weekend<br><br>We have plenty of dives and activities planned for the month ahead including our final&nbsp;<strong>Quiz Night<\/strong>&nbsp;for 2025 on Tuesday 4th, our&nbsp;<strong>Breathold Course<\/strong>&nbsp;on the 11th &amp; 12th, another&nbsp;<strong>Clay Day<\/strong>&nbsp;with Tyla on the 7th and&nbsp;a&nbsp;<strong>Clean Up Dive&nbsp;<\/strong>on Sunday 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#x1f93f; Upcoming Club Dives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please book a few days ahead<\/strong>&nbsp;so we can lock in hire gear and buddies.&nbsp;<br>&#x1f449;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/dive-trips\/upcoming-trip-dates\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the dive calendar here \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/283195df98da6640d92ea0367b4ad306.jpg\" alt=\"Club Quiz\" class=\"wp-image-4225 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/283195df98da6640d92ea0367b4ad306.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/283195df98da6640d92ea0367b4ad306-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/283195df98da6640d92ea0367b4ad306-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#x1f37b; Dive Club Pub Quiz Night<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sprig &amp; Fern, Petone!<\/strong><br>Come hang out with the crew for a fun quiz night<br>Tuesday 4th November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be there from 6pm (quiz starts at 7)<\/li><li>$5 entry + raffle tickets (cash is king!)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create your own Sea-themed Ceramics<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Friday 7th November<br>Join our very own ceramic artist, Tyla, and&nbsp;make your own sea themed mug, plate, or sea creature out of clay. We\u2019re swapping wetsuits for aprons and our fins for sculpting tools for an ocean-inspired evening of art, laughs, and community. Book your place here <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/705773285293416\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/705773285293416<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breath-Hold Course 11th &amp; 12th November<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Paddy to work on your breathold skills and improve your freediving.<br>The first sesssion covers physiology and breath hold techniques to practice before heading to the pool to work on these and other skills including diver rescues. Spaces are limited so check out the course and book here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2007009586798747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2007009586798747<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PADI Advanced Open Water Dive Course<\/strong><br>15th &amp; 16th of November<br>The best way to improve your dive skills and get ready for the upcoming dive season.<br>Learn valuable skills including navigating a dive site, deep diving and use of a DSMB: perfect for trips around new Zealand &amp; the world&nbsp;&#x1f93f;&#x1f30f;Check out our course options and other dates here <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/PADI-dive-courses\/PADI-advanced-open-water-diver\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/PADI-dive-courses\/PADI-advanced-open-water-diver<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dive Club Trips<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us every Thurs\/Sat\/Sun for our club dives.<br>We have booked the boat for dives on the 15th November to explore the F69 wreck and local reefs.<br>Come away with us to Somes Island in December, dive the Mikhail Lermontov in the Marlborough Sounds over Anniversary weekend&nbsp;in January or join an unmissable 3 days of diving in Kaikoura in&nbsp;February 2026.<br>Our club trip schedule can been seen here <a href=\"https:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/dive-trips\/upcoming-trip-dates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/diveski.co.nz\/dive-trips\/upcoming-trip-dates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octobers weather was a little wild so  diving was quiet but we are planning more club trips, boat dives and other activities for our divers for November and 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,68,3,4,142],"tags":[15,155,18,72,121,55,76],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-event","category-dive-course","category-dive-trips","category-general-interest","category-padi-dive-instructor","tag-dive-courses","tag-diveclubwellington","tag-diving","tag-padi","tag-scuba","tag-wellington","tag-wellington-diving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","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=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}