If a country has 15,000 plus kilometers of coastline, you can pretty much guarantee there’s going to be somewhere wicked for diving. Luckily for us New Zealanders that somewhere is pretty much everywhere and wicked is a major understatement. Being world renowned for our underwater prowess, you’d think there’d be a funky clothing brand showcasing and [...]
Tara has been trying out the new Fusion Dry Suit from Scubapro and has just completed a review: Over the past month or so, I have been trying out the new Fusion Dry Suit from Scubapro. And I was so impressed that I treated myself and bought one! When Andrew first showed me the new [...]
Apeks regulators have always been at the top of their game, being popular with both sport and technical divers. Their regulators are widely used internationally for extremely demanding dives due to their unprecedented reliability. Many twin tank divers including myself regularly trust them with our lives. Apeks regulators always offered good options with hose routing [...]
As we all know, German engineers don’t do things by half’s. The Heser backup torch is a perfect example of this. I found out about these little gems as an instructor of mine temporarily blinded me during a course with one. Upon surfacing I immediately asked to have a look and was pleasantly surprised at [...]
Often people get carried away with specifications and features when selecting an underwater system. It is easy to get buried in all the hype, with so many megapixels and custom settings, not to mention the iTTl, or was it eTTl? If you ask underwater photographers if they use half the features on their cameras, most [...]
To promote their new range of Drysuit undergarments, Aquanaut NZ are offering a free set of DUI Actionwear undergarments to all divers ordering a new BARE or DUI suit up until the 31st Sept 2010. The Actionwear Professional series include separate top and pants featuring dual layer fleece with pill resistant, water shedding outer. The [...]
Intova IC12 Underwater Camera Today we have just received stock of a new underwater camera system from Intova. What makes this system stand out is the fact that for under NZ$500 you get a 12 megapixel digital camera and housing, with rechargeable battery and even HD video!! Underwater photography has never been so affordable. What [...]
TillyTec W40 As technology evolves, dive torch performance leaps from strength to strength. German company TillyTec has been leading the field recently and looks set for this to continue for some time. I recently had the opportunity to try out a couple of their torches for my self, including the LED W40 back up torch [...]
As New Zealand’s largest and most popular drysuit retailer, Global Dive are proud to announce yet another product to our expanding drysuit range, this time with an inovative design by Scubapro. We were first introduced to the Fusion dry suit 12 months ago when Andrew went diving with one of the development divers for the [...]
We are loving diving with the Galileo Luna and have been recommending them to a lot of our divers. We are so sure that you will like it too that if you call us and mention this article, we’ll give you a special price (that is too low that Andrew will not let me publish [...]
