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Hi Dive Crew,
Welcome to this months Dive Crew News
Well done to those who completed dive courses during December and January, remember to attend Crew Night on Wednesday to collect your certificate/s. We look forward to having everyone here to catch up and help celebrate new certifications too.
Also; Advanced Open Water course is coming up in just three weeks - sign up now, Rescue Diver course in April... We now have finance available for divers getting set-up with dive gear and your Advanced Open Water course and finance for Rebreather purchases too.
Get another Specialty to put towards your Master Scuba Diver rating with our feature specialty courses coming up, give Technical Diving a go with the Intro to Tech course and/or GoPRO with the Divemaster and IDC programs. Check out the latest "Dive Crew" Blog posts and get yourself a new wetsuit for a special price.
Don't forget to have a look at the quote of the month for a little inspiration and as always - Max's Column is sure to be an entertaining read alongside some great NEW dive gear...
Keep diving, keep learning, stay safe and have fun!
Tony, Peter and Liam
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Crew Night
We meet Wednesday 3rd of February at our dive centre in Mana. Cross the Paremata Bridge on SH 1 and take the first left (unless you are heading south). Come and join us from 5.00pm for a BBQ. All you need to do is bring your favourite BBQ food and anything else for a shared meal. You are welcome to bring a social beer or wine etc, tea, coffee and snacks provided.
Check out our location...
We present certificates as well so be there to get yours. All friends are welcome whether they are divers or not.……..
Last Guest Speaker
Rebecca Wilkings talked about her time in Niue as a dive Instructor. She had a great time and met a lot of interesting dive clients. Rebecca explained the type of diving they were doing and it sounded really exciting - as were a couple of her dive boat adventures. The photos were so good, the projector bulb blew just at the conclusion of her presentation.
There was a very good turn out. It was an excellent presention and we all enjoyed it, Thank you Becks..
Next Guest Speaker
To set the scene for the Easter trip north, Tony will give a presentation on one of the famous shipwrecks at Great Barrier Island. The wrecking of SS Wairarapa was New Zealand's third worst shipwreck ever. This will be entertaining and educational so book a seat!
Be here on Wednesday night for this inspiring talk. All are welcome, whether divers or not. We present certificates as well. Bring something for the BBQ and a shared meal (beer or wine etc as well if you wish).
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"Wall of fame"
Well done to all those who achieved new certifications in December and January, we look forward to having you at Crew Night to present your certificate/s. There is a lot of great diving to be had with your new certifications so join us for local diving, your next dive course and a dive trip or and more...
PADI Open Water diver
James, Sam, Charles, Andries, Matthew, Michael, Rachel, Aslan, Paul, Angus, Tom, Lucas and Anneke
PADI Advanced Open Water
Stradford, Caleb and Dave
PADI Rescue Diver
Claudia and Matt
PADI Equipment Specialist
Peter and Liam
PADI Emergancy Oxygen Provider
Claudia and Matt
Medic First Aid
Matt, Thomas and Annette
TDI KISS Air Diluent Instructor Trainer
Tony
Got to " Honours Board" for more...
See you at Crew Night!
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A Sad Farewell
On Tuesday, Dave Cox and his wife Jan were diving in Owhiro Bay. The conditions were great and they were both looking forward to the dive. During the dive Jan indicated she was having difficulty and signaled for them to ascend. Jan asked for help in loosening her BCD. Dave started to tow her to the exit but her condition worsened. Dave got her onto the rocks and commenced CPR while calling for help. A local arrived with a boat and Jan was taken to shore where an ambulance waited. The medics tried their best but sadly Jan did not recover. Dave is a very experienced diver and qualified Divemaster who has been diving for years while Jan is a certified Advanced Open Water Diver. Jan could not have been in better hands. Our deepest sympathies go to Dave and his family. We have lost one of our family too.
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KISS New Zealand Sales Agent
Tony has been appointed the NZ sales agent for KISS rebreathers. This is in recognition of the efforts NZSA has put in supporting this simple but extremely reliable rebreather. Contact: tony@scubadiving.co.nz or 04 233-8238
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Open Water Diver course
- Learn to SCUBA Dive -
Next course:
First weekend: 6th and 7th of February
8:30am till around midday - Pool lessons
Second weekend: 13th and 14th of February
8:30am till around 4:30pm - Open Water Dives
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February/March course:
First weekend: 27th and 28th of February
8:30am till around midday - Pool lessons
Second weekend: 5th and 6th of March
8:30am till around 4:30pm - Open Water Dives
Mid March course:
First weekend: 12th and 13th of March
8:30am till around midday - Pool lessons
Second weekend: 19th and 20th of March
8:30am till around 4:30pm - Open Water Dives
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Advanced Open Water course
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Your next step in Underwater Adventures...
Go a little deeper... Improve your underwater navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy plus two other options like Wreck, Naturalist, Photography or Night Diving! Find out more.............
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- Full weekend: 20th and 21st of February, 8:30am till 4:30pm - 5 Adventure Dives
- Or Thursdays: 4:30pm till 8pm - Individual Dives
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Rescue Diver course
The BEST dive course you will ever take...
Become a more confident diver and everyone's favourite dive buddie, become a safer diver with essential rescue skills and better awareness of how to stay safe.. Find out more.................
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Saturday and Sunday: 23rd and 24th of April (8:30am till 4:30pm) - Practical Lessons
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Featured Specialty courses
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
Hone your buoyancy skills with a course for inspired divers..
- Knowledge Development
- Two Open Water Dives
24th of February 2016
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Surface Marker Buoy
The Surface Marker Buoy is a diver aid that can be used to indicate you are ascending, to assist with maintaining your safety stop depth and also to indicate your location when you are on the surface.
- Knowledge Development
- Two Open Water Dives
26th of February 2016
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Search & Recovery
The PADI Search & Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.
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- Knowledge Development and Four Open Water Dives Coming up soon
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Also available throughout the year; our complete range of Specialty courses, talk to one of the Team about scheduling... Today!
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Technical Diving courses
- Full range of Technical and Rebreather courses -
TDI Intro to Tech course - Get a taste of what Technical Diving is about.....
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Currently in progress;
- KISS Air Dil Rebreather course
- TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Proceedures
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PADI Divemaster course
(register anytime below)
PADI Dive Instructor course (IDC)
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Local Diving Adventures
After work on Thursdays we have the weekly Crew dive to the days best dive site and Saturday or Sunday you can drop by the Store in the morning to see what's happening and meet up with other divers looking to do some SCUBA diving....
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Mokohinau & Great Barrier Islands Trip
Easter Weekend - 2016
The Hidden treasure of the Mokohinau Islands is well know and popular diving for New Zealanders that has yet to be discovered by the rest of the world. Lying in the same current as the Poor Knights, the diving is truly spectacular with an abundance of untouched aquatic life to experience. Close by are Little Barrier and Great Barrier Islands with popular wreck dives...
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Vanuatu Dive Trip
- Dive the SS President Coolidge & USS Tucker -
- 12 Shore dives and 6 boat dives or;
- 16 Shore dives and 6 boat dive options
Coming up mid-year...
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Max's Column
Max is our Dive Crew's resident spy, always on the lookout for any oops moments you might have. Check out what he has spotted this month..
- Some dives are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Lucky help was available to untangle a Rebreather diver’s cable!
- To make it worse, in the coffee shop we had to advise the nearly 53 year old he had his T shirt on inside out.
- Happy 53rd birthday James. It might get better from here.
- Tony was back into the water after recovering from a bad case of the flu. Took a long time.
- Sue was also back in the water too but it had been 20 years since her last NZ dive.
- Don’t know if you saw double Sue but the sticker was still on your new mask lens.
- The best time to have a battery failure is on a shallow Scuba dive that you know sooo well.
- At least on tony’s Rebreather there are two Shearwaters.
- Wayne’s landmark van has gone – replaced by a flash Toyota Avi station wagon.
- Wayne is a very keen man – three days diving over our long weekend.
- Before a dive we go through the security issue of hiding the car key. We had two cars and two groups of divers.
- One of the passengers exited before the driver. He found the second car key then searched the car for the key to the car his clothes were in.
- Sadly this time they were both hidden separately.
- Claudia is a nearly-brand-new Rescue diver. We were quite careful not to make any signs that might be misinterpreted as distress.
- Perhaps we should have let you practice on Liam’s stress fractured toe Claudia.
- Great to see Chris back on the Rebreather learning trail after an enforced break.
- Even better that you are adding a Shearwater NERD computer – it is in the way.
- Who was the dive guide who nearly got to the wreck of the Progress?
- The group were quite puzzled when the guide decided he was lost – within sight of the boiler.
- Mind you, the diver that knew they were close – just followed on.
- It made for a conversation piece over coffee, more like denials.
- An enthusiastic group of Open Water Diver students got half way back from the dive site and decided to let the turbo hose on the van they all packed into expire.
- A Rescue Diver operation of a different sort was put into action and all were duly rescued...
- ... shortly afterward they limped in with dive gear in hand totally unfazed, washed up, got certified and bought new dive gear of their own!!
- Peter and Evan stumble across an unusually high number of fish while diving at Rocky Bay (they should try finning!)
- Max, Matt and Peter saw another After Work dive filled with underwater life...
- Unusual dive trio spotted on the South Coast - one single cylinder diver, one sidemounted diver (two cylinders), one breather diver (three cylinders).
- Some early teens blended in well with the adults to get their Junior Open Water Diver certifications recently.... ;) Good effort Angus, Aslan, Tom and Anneke!
- Jess and Ellie forgot who's name was who's while doing their pool lessons...
- ...luckily everyone else was on the ball.
- And to those who had birthdays recently: James D., Kevin, James T, Malcolm, Frankie, Andrew, Amelia, Roland and Paula. Happy Birthday!!!
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12L FABER - Short
- New SCUBA Cylinder size -
These dive cylinders are and may just be the right tanks for you! At 12L capacity and shorter than even a 10L FABER they're sure to do the job...
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AquaPod
Extends from 39 to 97cm!
Capture aquatic life from angles you could not reach before and get a few selfies in along the way!
Camera sold separately
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Shearwater Perdix
Merging state of the art manufacturing techniques, innovative engineered materials, and consumer feedback. Shearwater has successfully developed a low-profile, sleekly contoured design without sacrificing features vital to technical divers. It's everything you love about the Petrel dive computer, just smaller.
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Legacy Dive Mask
Comfy fit
New Legacy dive mask in store! A very comfortable and stylish attention getter in White or black...
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