Ed is on holiday from Wales, visiting New Zealand for 9 weeks. Ed decided to go on and do is Advanced Open Water course. Ed is one very positive young man, enthusiastic about life and “everything in general”. By the end of the course Ed has firmly made up his mind to progess up to [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Porpoise Dive & Ed – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Posted in Dive, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, PADI Dive Courses, PADI Advanced Open Water Course on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Porpoise Dive & Darren
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, Wreck Diving, viz, water temperature, diving in the bay of islands, Scuba Review on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Darren up from Wellington is a Rescue Diver who needed to “get his gills” wet again after a 2 year break from the water. The weather couldn’t have been better, with water temperature up to 23 degrees and viz an average of 15 metres in the bay.
Darren thoroughly enjoyed himself & was full of life [...]
Porpoise Dive & Liz – PADI Open Water Diver
Posted in Dive, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, PADI Open Water Course, diving in the bay of islands, PADI Dive Courses, Learn to Dive on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Liz is on working holiday from Ireland, working as a Nanny for a local family. Liz “took the plunge” as she put it and is now a Qualified Padi Open Water Diver.
Liz is a very confident young woman and had a few practical jokes played on her but was more than capable of “giving them [...]
Porpoise Dive introduce NZ diving to Joycie & James
Posted in Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, tagged Families Diving together, Fun day out, Rainbow Warrior, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature, Wreck Diving on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joycie & James are a lovely couple over from the States – first heard about NZ from a freind “way back” in college and had always wanted to visit, so having fullfilled one dream, they decided to “live their other dream” and dive the Rainbow Warrior.
Back “home”, Joycey is an advisor for Children with disabilites” [...]
Porpoise Dive show Jonas the Cavalli Islands
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rainbow Warrior, Sightseeing, Underwater photography on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jonas is over from Sweden on Paternity leave, he and his family have one more week in New Zealand before holidaying in Australia then returning home. One of the main reasons Jonas chose to holiday in the bay of islands, was to dive the Rainbow Warrior – saying it was everything he was briefed about for [...]
Porpoise Dive show Andy the Bay of Islands
Posted in Underwater photography, Wreck, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, Wreck Diving, diving in the bay of islands, Fun day out, HMNZS Canterbury on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andy and his family are out from the UK to attend a best friends wedding, so while here in the bay Andy decided he couldn’t pass up on diving the wreck the Canterbury! Back home Andy has a scaffolding business and says that the recession has not yet affected his business-in fact the opposite appears [...]
Porpoise Dive show Manfred the Bay of Islands
Posted in diving in the bay of islands on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
12.50pm the phone rings, and there is a man off the Cruiseship Amadea (in from Nukualofa) anchored in the bay wanting to dive.
We were a bit limited to time, as Manfred had to be back to get the last shuttle to the Amadea, we took him to the Volcanic Centre & Silver Drummer Valley – [...]
Porpoise Dive show Gus & Ellie the HMNZS Canterbury
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, Wreck Diving, viz, water temperature, diving in the bay of islands, Families Diving together, Fun day out, HMNZS Canterbury on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gus & Ellie, on holiday from Holland wanted to do a “wreck dive” – the conditions for the Rainbow Warrior would have been too uncomfortable, so it was decided to go to the Canterbury instead.
Gus is a Dive Instructor with 20 plus years under his (weight)belt, and Ellie is a rescue diver. They were very [...]
Porpoise Dive take Ashley to the Rainbow Warrior
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Diving, Underwater photography, Wreck Diving, Fun day out, Rainbow Warrior on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ashley is on holiday from Australia, where back home she is a professional swimming coach. Ashley couldn’t resist the call of the Rainbow Warrior while up here in the Bay of Islands.
Joining her was Vic, a lovely young lady from Paihia who is a Divemaster and came out for a days fun.
Vic gives the OK!
Enjoy [...]
Porpoise Dive, Daniella & Kate in the Bay of Islands
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, Fun day out, Scuba Review, snorkeling on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Daniella & Kate are doing the big OE and New Zealand is their last stopover before returning to Australia.
Dani snorkelled around the reefs and watched while Kate was helped in her Scuba Review, after a lunch stop we then took them onto another reef covered in kelp, with a plethora of fish life to look [...]
