Skirts in Scuba, June 2009 with Yukon Charters Much to Tara’s disgust, I have been putting off writing this trip report for a month. There are several reasons for this, with the main one being this was my first ocean dive and to be honest I was so terrified/amazed/excited the entire time that I don’t [...]
We are pleased, so pleased, ecstatic in fact, to be able to offer a trip to undisputedly one of the worlds best wreck dives which is right on our doorstep! Yes the Mikhail Lermontov, a 10,000 ton Russian Ocean liner sinking in Feb 1986 has brought sheer pleasure to all those who have ventured to [...]
The Aldermen islands are almost unmapped territory due to the many pins ascending from the sea floor and lurking in the shallows making it hard for vessels to navigate. The most extensive map charted has been made by Jim Hope, the skipper of the MV Taranui. A lot of the mapping was thanks to sonar [...]
This weekend – despite the yucky weather which saw the Poor Knights liveaboard trip cancelled – we had some brave students, divemasters and instructors hit Lake Pupuke for a PADI Open Water course. Congratulations to the team who stuck it out on Saturday and were rewarded with beautiful weather on Sunday.
Easter Weekend at the Poor Knights diving with Yukon Charters and Noel, Pauly and Jo. Diving: Pete, Mike, Skip, Andrew, Anna, John, Jane, Jonathan, Deirdre, Greg, Phil, Marty and me. I watched a lone diver in crystal clear water carrying what seemed to be a Kalashnikov machine gun. He looked up towards the surface and [...]
This last month saw more fantastic diving conditions, being especially kind for two separate photography trips. Firstly well done to Antoinette, Daniel and Julie for successfully completing their PADI Digital Underwater Specialty course with Andrew at the Poor Knights. The trip was a fantastic opportunity to put into practice some of the new techniques learned [...]
Skirts in Scuba by Claire Byrne I moved to Auckland from England in February, and I knew that one of the first things I wanted to do in NZ was learn to dive. I started my PADI course straight away, and after a few hiccups (quite literally – for some reason I got really violent [...]
