Sat 12 Sept 2015 Dive & Ski HQ Seaview Marina clean up with Keep NZ Beautiful and Project Aware. 9 AM: Te and I arrived at the shop with rain clouds looming! Not a good sign, the harbour was looking like a pan you had just finished poaching 20 eggs in for breakfast!! ( White […]
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Talking to students at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology Info Day
Mel and I set up a display stand at CPIT and spent the afternoon sharing their passion for diving. We wanted to achieve more of a visual presence, so we also had three of our current Diploma in Professional SCUBA Instruction students help us out. Tim and Jack decided to wear full SCUBA equipment with […]
PADI Women’s Dive Day – July 2015
PADI held its inaugural Women’s Dive Day last month with over 80 events held in 13 countries. Designed to encourage women to get out diving perhaps winter is not the best season for those of us based here in New Zealand but it was a great day and PADI hope this event will increase in […]
One for the Bucket List – Vanuatu President Coolidge Wreck
Nothing was going to prepare me for the day I descended on the wreck of the President Coolidge. After a short 15min journey from our dive resort through the happiest little village in the world I found myself here. In beautiful landscaped gardens with an opening out to the golden beach covered with broken glass bottles washed up left from the war, […]
Hand feeding Sharks and Stingrays!
“Great trip had by our newly certified divers in Napier getting up close and personal hand feeding sharks/stingrays!! This is a awesome experience and winter fun! Everyone returned to Palmerston North with all their fingers and toes!! We have been doing this trip for years and always have the best Time!”
Professional Scuba Instruction
Graduated from Dive HQ Christchurch – Diploma in Professional SCUBA Instruction – Qualified PADI Staff Instructor “I love seeing my students faces when they take their first breath underwater” In 2013 I signed up to do an Instructor course at Dive HQ Christchurch. I started with my Open Water in Picton, it was such an […]
The Dive HQ Tea Party
The conditions over the weekend were perfect for a ‘Tea Party’, inside in the warm with good people and of course good food. Thank you to all who bought cakes and scones along, we are going to have to do lots more diving to work off that last piece of cake or cream covered scone. […]
Dive Against Debris!
Sunday 28th June Affectionately named “Colin’s Rubbish Dives”, Dive HQ Christchurch are doing another underwater clean up and we need your help. We are planning to go to Magazine Bay this year and collect rubbish around the moorings and boat ramp. Even if you can’t or don’t dive (why not!?!) there will be plenty to […]
“I love seeing my students faces when they take their first breath underwater”
In 2013 I signed up to do an Instructor course at Dive HQ Christchurch. I started with my Open Water in Picton, it was such an awesome weekend through which I made friends that I still dive with to this day. Some of the best experiences were when I got to help out on weekend […]
Friends for Sharks
Friends for Sharks is a marine conservation cause working to support charities and increase worldwide awareness of the plight of sharks Mission Statement Here at Friends for Sharks we will: Use our voices to promote marine conservation and increase worldwide awareness of the threats to sharks and rays Educate and encourage people […]