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 [...]
It really amazes me how many very talented people we meet through the dive centre here at Global Dive. Just a couple of days after meeting up with DJ Gareth-B (previous post), we have top winemaker and also Global Dive club member Simon Fell in the store. Simon completed his Open Water course with Anna [...]
By Andrew Simpson What a great pleasure it was this weekend to catch up with diver and world class DJ Gareth-B. For those who follow our site will remember that Gareth played the most amazing set on Pacific Hideaway on New Years Eve for Global Dive!! Since then he has been busy mixing new tracks, [...]
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Lots of exciting stuff going on here at the moment!! We are sad to announce the Alien which has kept guard in the dive shop for 4 years has had a breakdown (literally) and will be moving to Dallas Texas. We will all miss him. RIP Alien. The rumours about the store having a major [...]
