{"id":285,"date":"2017-06-03T05:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T05:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2017-06-03T05:42:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T05:42:03","slug":"coastguard-dive-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/coastguard-dive-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastguard Dive Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our divers are always up for a challenge and even more so when it is for such a great cause as supporting our team at the Wellington Volunteer Coastguard! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Intros-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Intros-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Intros (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Intros-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Intros-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Intros-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We cancelled our 24 Hour Dive Challenge after the November quakes but wanted to continue our support of Coastguard and all the local businesses that had offered prizes to help us fundraise.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to join in with Coastguard\u2019s National May Day Appeal,\u00a0 held in the first week of May and so we ran our 12 Hour Coastguard Dive Challenge on Sunday 7<sup>th<\/sup> of May 2017. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our first buddy team entered the water at <span>9am<\/span> and many more followed suit. Divers registered for a 45 min fun dive in Scorching Bay in Wellington Harbour. Exploring the reefs they saw conger eels, seahorses, blue cod, banded wrasse, baby squid, octopus, tube anemones and so much more. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2428x.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2428x-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2428x\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2428x-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2428x-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SH-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SH\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crew of Spirit of Wellington and Phoenix came along to cheer us on.<\/p>\n<p>We even ran Discover Scuba Diving experiences for those that had never dived before. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Truck-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Truck-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Truck (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Truck-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Truck-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/18553032_10211305648590983_621660347_o.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boats-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Boats\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boats-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boats-1024x629.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 12 Hours; 44 individual divers had participated in 30 different dives and 75 individual dives were logged. The Coastguard Dive Challenge raised over $1000 to support the efforts of our local volunteer coastguard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our divers are always up for a challenge and even more so when it is for such a great cause as supporting our team at the Wellington Volunteer Coastguard! \u00a0 We cancelled our 24 Hour Dive Challenge after the November quakes but wanted to continue our support of Coastguard and all the local businesses that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}