{"id":335,"date":"2017-12-24T05:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2017-12-24T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T05:58:29","slug":"merry-christmas-everyone-and-have-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/merry-christmas-everyone-and-have-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Christmas season is fast approaching\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dive season has well and truly started so ask yourself<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you ready?<\/li>\n<li>More importantly is your gear ready?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAFETY CHECK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dive with a buddy \u2013 stay together<\/p>\n<p>Check your dive gear \u2013 are you weighted correctly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equipment check<\/strong> &#8211; computer battery, regulators working, recently serviced<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dive flag<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dive check<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dive buddy \u2013 stay together or at least in visual sight<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buoyancy \u2013 are you weighted correctly \u2013 do the basic check<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dive Signal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are diving off a boat \u2013 make sure the skipper or person on board understands not to leave the dive site until you are safely back on the boat<\/p>\n<p><b>Buoyancy\u00a0check<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once you are in the water<\/li>\n<li>Do a simple buoyancy check before you dive<\/li>\n<li>Jump in the water<\/li>\n<li>Put mask, regulator on<\/li>\n<li>If you are weighted correctly you face should be just below the surface.<\/li>\n<li>If above the surface \u2013 add more weight<\/li>\n<li>If below the surface \u2013 reduce the weight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas season is fast approaching\u2026 &nbsp; Dive season has well and truly started so ask yourself Are you ready? More importantly is your gear ready? &nbsp; SAFETY CHECK Dive with a buddy \u2013 stay together Check your dive gear \u2013 are you weighted correctly Equipment check &#8211; computer battery, regulators working, recently serviced \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336,"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\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}