Stephen called us saying he’d like to dive the Rainbow Warrior, as we had been recommended by his friend Gareth, who had come out with us on the Canterbury yesterday. Stephen is a very likeable person, being a stockbroker you have to have a good sense of humour AND adventure and he lived up to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Porpoise Dive take Stephen to Rainbow Warrior
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, tagged Diving, Fun day out, Rainbow Warrior, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Porpoise Dive, Gareth & Melanie Dive the Canterbury Wreck
Posted in Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Diving, diving in the bay of islands, Fun day out, HMNZS Canterbury, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature, Wreck Diving on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Melanie (from Kerikeri) called asking about diving in the bay and perhaps joining the BOI underwater dive club, and as “Santa had given her diving gear for Christmas”, she would like to try it all out!
Gareth (from Wales) literally threw in his “screwdiver as an Industrial Electrician” and is having a worlwide touring holiday was [...]
Porpoise Dive take Eric & Martin diving on the Rainbow Warrior
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Unbelievably, both Eric & Martin decided they would like to dive the Rainbow Warrior and as they had become qualified Open Water Divers through us, we took them to see the “old girl” as we call her. We were extrememly satisfied in their diving capabilities and they felt confident in us to take them down [...]
Porpoise Dive Help Eric & Martin become PADI Open Water Divers
Posted in Dive, Underwater photography, tagged Diving, diving in the bay of islands, Families Diving together, Fun day out, Learn to Dive, PADI Open Water Course, Underwater photography, viz on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eric & Martin (twins – Martin by 2 minutes!) are on holiday from the Netherlands, travelling around New Zealand ; soaking up all the fantastic sights and taking on any adventure sports they can get their hands on! Their last adventure sport to take up was DIVING – and they both agreed that it is by [...]
Porpoise Dive take Bob on Photography Dive
Posted in Sightseeing, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged diving in the bay of islands, Fun day out, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bob is travelling with his wife & friends from Belgium and has seven weeks in New Zealand, last week he dived the Poor Knights, and was just “itching” to dive in the Bay of Islands. The viz today was an average of 15 metres and the water temperature was around 21 degrees (nice!)
Bob enjoys diving [...]
Porpoise Dive Liz & Bob Scuba Review
Posted in Sightseeing, Underwater photography, diving in the bay of islands, tagged diving in the bay of islands, Families Diving together, Fun day out, reef dive, Scuba Review, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Liz & Bob are over in New Zealand from NorthH…. Just below the Canadian border on an extended holiday – trying to escape the “bitter winters back home”.
We were more than glad to help both Liz & Bob back into diving, after a four year absence. The viz today was an average of 20 metres, [...]
Porpoise Dive show Andrea the Rainbow Warrior
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, Underwater photography, Wreck, tagged Diving, Fun day out, Rainbow Warrior, Underwater photography, viz, water temperature, Wreck Diving on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrea has been in New Zealand for the past 9 months on a working holiday, based in Christchurch. Having only 6 weeks left she decided she just HAD to dive the Poor Knights and being this far north to dive the Rainbow Warrior as well. The viz today was an average of 12 metres on [...]
Porpoise Dive, Scubaninja, Laura & Paul
Posted in Dive, Sightseeing, diving in the bay of islands, tagged Underwater photography, viz, water temperature, diving in the bay of islands, Fun day out, snorkeling on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You meet some very interesting people diving, Laura & Paul are over on holiday from Australia, where back home they both work in the copper mines. Laura wanted to get back into the water after an 18 month break and her husband Paul wanted to snorkel around. Both Laura & Paul thoroughly enjoyed their day [...]
