Kapiti Diver
Registered
I have been diving for nearly five years now and as I live by the sea and own my own boat am fortunate enough to have logged close on 300 sea dives since starting back in December 1998.
I still get a great buzz from diving and have just come back from diving wrecks in the Solomon Islands (2nd year running).
I am particularly fascinatesd in the USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) which I believe is the only diveable destroyer in the Pacific. She sits upright on sand at 70 metres (yes that is metres) and I have now dived her 7 times on compressed air.
With a bit of encouragement I would be happy to start a thread on this subject in the Wreck forum if anyone is interested as there are lots of issues to be dealt with when planning and executing dives at this depth.. and I would be happy to share what I have learnt. I believe I am one of about only 250 divers who have dived this wreck, discovered by New Zealanders in 1994.
I still get a great buzz from diving and have just come back from diving wrecks in the Solomon Islands (2nd year running).
I am particularly fascinatesd in the USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) which I believe is the only diveable destroyer in the Pacific. She sits upright on sand at 70 metres (yes that is metres) and I have now dived her 7 times on compressed air.
With a bit of encouragement I would be happy to start a thread on this subject in the Wreck forum if anyone is interested as there are lots of issues to be dealt with when planning and executing dives at this depth.. and I would be happy to share what I have learnt. I believe I am one of about only 250 divers who have dived this wreck, discovered by New Zealanders in 1994.