Re-Cap October November 2009

Well hello everyone!  We would like to thank you for all your emails that have been firing through lately.
It’s really nice to hear from you all and that you are all still diving! AWESOME to see, loved the photos too.
Congratulations to Karl Johnson for completing his Rescue Course – Karl is going on to become [...]

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Porpoise Dive help Johanna, Clara & John become Open Water Divers

Johanna &  Clara are on a 3 month holiday from Sweden & decided to make one of their dreams come true & Learn to Dive.  John is on holiday from the UK and back home is a Head Chef with 3 restaurants under his care.  He decided to Learn to Dive and surprise his lovely [...]

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Porpoise Dive help Clare become a PADI Scuba Diver

Clare decided to “throw in” her job back in South Wales and take a 12 months touring holiday in New Zealand. Diving was something she had always dreamed of doing, so while staying in Paihia, she took the plunge ~ literally!
Unfortunately, we have just experienced a rather mean Northerly ground swell which stirs up the viz [...]

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Porpoise Dive help Megan, Nick & Ralph become PADI Open Water divers

Megan & Nick are on holiday from South Africa.  Nick has just graduated from University and is off to Dubai for a working holiday & to enjoy the diving with a friend over there.
Megan has just two more years to go to graduate in economics, philosophy & Marketing, but is already chomping at the bit [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Hanna from Finland

Hanna lives in a land that is also surrounded by waterand had always wanted to learn to dive. So, whilst out here in New Zealand on a working holiday she visited Paihia, decided she liked the area and to “just do it!”
  
and live out one of her dreams, so approached us for a PADI Open [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Hayden

                                                                                                                                  
Hayden is a very mature 17 year old who works alongside his father  extracting yummy honey! Hayden loves anything to do with the water, his experience in free diving definately gave him that edge, The smile never left his face the whole time he was doing his course.
Congratulations on becoming a PADI Open Water [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Craig

Craig is an I.T man residing in Auckland, who is off to Palau with a friend who dives.  He is an active man who enjoys ski-boarding, surfing, snorkelling and so decided that Palau who be too good an opportunity to pass up on diving and was referred to us by a former student of ours to do a PADI [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Hannah

Hannah is out from England University and this last week decided to go for it and do a PADI Open Water Course.  Sadly, due to weather she could only complete her Confined Open Water, but flew through the paperwork. 

The weather was so bad, that it was with regret that we had to cancel the rest [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Nadia

Nadia approached us for a refresher as she had been “dry gilled” for approximately 14 years, so to the pool we went and ran through skills. With Nadia’s positive outlook on life she had no problems at all, and was mildly surprised how easy it was after her long absence
 To the sea we went today, [...]

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Porpoise Dive & Chrissy

Chrissy is one of our locals, who skippers the Mac Attack & the R Tucker Thompson.
Chrissy you may never want to dive here again after your “little tiki tour”!

 
 
 
 
 
A young lady vibrant and full of energy who approached us to learn how to dive as she is skippering a private charter up through the islands [...]

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