Each year divers plan overseas dive trips with much excitement and enjoyment, only to come across anxieties and concerns regarding travelling with dive gear on airlines. With this in mind I have decided to draw up a list of suggestions and ideas to help you with your planning and packing. With airline baggage allowances getting [...]
If you have had an extended time away from scuba diving and want to get back under water I would recommend that you do a Scuba review / refresher. An extended time would be 6 months or longer. With the latest busy lifestyles its amazing how quickly we can forget the basics. As a divemaster [...]
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 [...]
Deciding to purchase and dive a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) is not one to be made lightly. There are many different reasons why people make the transition, including extending diving knowledge, reduced costs of deeper dives, additional bottom time or even for photography. Most rebreather divers will tell you that when you start out on [...]
You often read articles about learning to dive but the teaching team here at Global Dive get to look at it from the other side. People come to us with all sorts of reasons to learn to dive and we have to adapt and cater to these in order to give the client the course [...]
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 [...]
TDI Intro to Tech course Technical diving has been seen in a mysterious light for many years, with participants being secretive about their actions and often showing unhealthy affection for their gear, of which there is always a lot. To get into technical diving, previously you needed to know what you wanted to do and [...]
Monday 26th July 2010 Tonight, the Global Dive Club was pleased to host the New Zealand MetService Weather Ambassador, Mr Bob McDavitt himself. Bob created an amazing presentation for us which you can find below – and took us through weather terminology and the parts that affect us most as divers – wind, waves and [...]
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 [...]
