G'day from New Zealand

[Kahawai]

Hi there everyone,
I'm new to these forums, but have been reading them for a while. Have enjoyed the humour, tips, ideas and disagreements, and decided to check it out. I work in a dive store in NZ, and are involved in most aspects of it, from working as a Dive Control Specialist (SSI), to retail sales. Most of my diving is done in 14-15 degrees Celsius (sorry, unsure of Farenheit) and getting much cooler than that in Winter. The best diving I have done in New Zealand would have to be in Milford Sound, Fiordland. Very unique fishlife, and huge colonies of Black Coral.
Anyway, I look forward to meeting some of you in these forums. I'm pretty busy, so only really get to join once or twice a week.
See Ya

 

[Rick Murchison]

Originally posted by Kahawai
Most of my diving is done in 14-15 degrees Celsius (sorry, unsure of Farenheit)

Welcome aboard.
In Farenheit, that's COLD.
Are you in the South of New Zealand? I was under the impression that N. NZ had summertime water temps in the 25 C range...
Thanks,
And again, welcome.
Rick
(I've looked it up now... Fiordland is way down South)

 

[Fishkiller]

and a WARM Welcome from ARIZONA


Glad to have your presents known :balloon:

 

[DivingGal]

and a warm welcome from another of the "colonies" ...

And for those non-celsius types that's about 57-59 range. Not that cold, but definately not for CADs.

I for one will be glad to hear tales from your neck of the woods as I still have hope to hopping down to visit friends and family (and do a bit of diving)

 

[DiverG]

Welcome aboard Kahawai, I'm planning on a trip to New Zealand in FEB 2003. I'm going down under to watch the Americans bring back or little racing cup, and of course to hopefully get some diving in. Can you tell us a little more about the diving in New Zealand?

DiverG

 

[ckharlan66]

Glad you joined us. I am looking forward to reading about your experiences.

Chad

 

[Kahawai]

Originally posted by DiverG
Welcome aboard Kahawai, I'm planning on a trip to New Zealand in FEB 2003. I'm going down under to watch the Americans bring back or little racing cup, and of course to hopefully get some diving in. Can you tell us a little more about the diving in New Zealand?

Hi DiverG,
If you are basing yourself in Auckland (which you probably are, considering you'll be watching us keep that little cup for another 4 years!) you will have to have a look at the Poor Knights Islands, supposedly one of the top ten dive sites in the world. You can see huge numbers of schooling stingrays, and amazingly clear water. The whole of the Coromandel area (close to Auckland) is bulging with great dive sites. A good website for you to look at is www.divenewzealand.com, should enlighten you on where to go. I live in wellington, the Capital city, which is surrounded with plenty of good dive sites, you can leave the centre city and be exploring a wreck (which we seem to have a lot of) from the shore within twenty minutes.
What's the diving like in your neck of the woods?

 

[DiverG]

Kahawai,

Even if we do not take back the cup this year, it's still only on loan to you. We'll get back one day.

as far as the diving in my neck of the woods it's nothing like what you have. We mainly have low visibilty lakes and quarry's for diving. If you want to get good visibilty ocean diving you must do a 2-3 day liveaboard to the Flower Gardens. About 100 miles off the Texas Coast.

DiverG

 

[Ari]

Weolcome to the best board on the net. You'll really enjoy it.

Regards from sunny Isreal.

Ari

 

[Scottri]

Welcome from Portland Oregon. I had the pleasure of diving in NZ last year. I got to dive the Alderman Islands and some shore dives on the Coramandel. What a great country! The people were great and the diving was great. The water was warm compared to what I'm used to. The water temp seemed to be very close to Southern California. A 5MM wetsuit was plenty warm.

Welcome aboard!


Scott