Nov 23
Flat seas and sunshine were perfect conditions to complete learn to dive courses on Saturday morning at Wellington Reef. A large school of Blue Mao Mao and many nudibranches being the diving hightlights. Congratulations to Josh, Jonah, Victor, Sam and John on completing their SSI Open Water couirse with their instructor Lachie. Diana and Jess …
Nov 16
Six divers assembled at Army Bay for their first ever night dive. A calm night and full moon made the perfect setting as we headed out to Wellington Reef on boat. Congratulations to Nick, Mark, Jacob and Kate on completing the final dive of their PADI Advanced Open Water course. A big thanks to their …
Oct 23
Congratulations to Dave Abbott on completing his Poseidon MkVI Rebreather course. Even if the plankton bloom and poor visability was working against us we still managed to complete the 4 required dives along the Tutukaka Coastline. Dave is a professional underwater photo/videographer and plans to take advantage of the quiet operation of a fully closed …
Oct 21
After 5 months waiting the new Hollis Explorer Rebreather finally arrived at the dive center. The engineers from Oceanic in the USA have been working frantically to clear huge back orders since the latest rebreather on the market was released earlier this year. This is a true recreational rebreather designed to be compact, light, simple …
Oct 21
We headed back up to the Bay of Islands again to dive the Canterbury Wreck, followed by a couple of dives on the Waikato Wreck out of Tutukaka. Sam headed the group to rack up a few more dives towards their Padi Specialty Wreck Instructor rating. We stayed at The Farm and headed across to …
Oct 14
Congratulations to Mike, Nick, Aaron and Logan on completing the first SSI XR technical course to be run in NZ. This course introduces students to standardised technical diving configurations, redundant gas supplies and gas switching. On completing the courses they are qualified to use gas mixes with up to 100% oxygen and limited decompression dives …
Oct 13
Congratulations to Xinming and Beeli on completing their Padi Advanced Open Water course with their instructor Aaron. The rest of the team enjoyed a couple of great boat dives to the Outpost and Daniels Reef testing out new gear purchased for this Summers diving.
Oct 12
Congratulations to Logan, Irene and Matt on completing their Padi Open Water course. Lisa, Doyle and Cara were onboard to rack up a few more dives towards their National Certificate in Diving – Foundation level. View Photo Gallery below:
Sep 24
We are celebrating our recent move to Silverdale with a Spring sale. Come down and check out our new shop and pick up some great deals in the process…STOREWIDE DISCOUNTS !
Sep 09
Congratulations to Rob, Kate and Jacob on completing their Open Water Diver Course. Doyle, Lisa and Justin joined us to rack up a few more dives towards their dive master courses. The weather turned out to be great (even though the forecast was a little dodgy)…the sun was shining, sea calm and visability a good …