November 2010 has been a fabulous month for sighting New Zealand Orca! The weekend of the 13/14 November, we saw Orca in the channel at Goat Island. The weekend of the 20/21 November, Colin sighted Orca in Whananaki estuary and we saw more Orca at the entrance to Tutukaka Marina. Dr. Ingrid Vissier came racing [...]
Having worked at the Poor Knights for a season I was lucky enough to get out there diving twice a day, 5 days a week, so as you might imagine I have had occasion to dive the same dive site numerous times. It has been heard from some divers that if they have dived a [...]
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 [...]
On one day, around the world, 15,000 AWARE Divers in more than 100 countries around the globe will document every item found beneath the water’s surface to help prevent the marine debris epidemic affecting our ocean planet At least 6 million tones of debris enter the world’s oceans each year, harming wildlife and underwater environments. The [...]
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 [...]
