How many KBers scuba dive?

[MOTOXXX]

i think i must be one of the only divers i know who gets sea sick. Does anyone have any good cures lol

[WINJA]

Would love to get into it but since arriving in NZ I have been told I have asthma apparently. Asthmna so I hear can cause some major problems for depths over 2 metres. I'll just stick to shallow water snorkling.

YOUR SO CLOSE TO FABULOUS GOAT ISLAND , I LOVE THAT PLACE , WHEN I GO THERE IM NICE TO PEOPLE FOR ALMOST A WHOLE WEEK AFTERWARDS

[pinkhoggirl]

Scuba you say?? Almost as nuts about that as I am about my hog!! Canadian import living next to the best diving in the world....I'm a fanatic! Crayfish, scally's....mmmm.

[SARGE]

My wetsuit's shrunk...

The last time I was underwater with scuba was February 1983. The very same day I completed my advanced scuba ticket at the Leigh Marine Reserve.

i havnt been down in 20+ years either.. used to love it..

[pinkhoggirl]

Ever combined biking with diving? Once took all my dive gear (including wieght belt, BC, wet suit, reg etc.) on my GN 250 in the pack rack (no tanks of course!), with fins strapped on the back, to a dive trip out of Maraetai (from Whangaparaoa!)...talk about desperate to ride/desperate to dive....!

[soundbeltfarm]

i havnt been down in 20+ years either.. used to love it..

HAHA I know mate she told its been about 20.......haha sorry had to say it because first thing i thought of when i seen it.

im a professional pearl diver.....hahaha i need to get to bed my brain is pissing around.

[sels1]

Used to do quite a bit of snorkeling. Only time I used tanks was in Nuie Is....came eyeball to eyeball with a (huge) Humpback whale at 50ft depth

[pinkhoggirl]

hmmmm - pearl diver??? I might go to bed now too....! And I thought this was "clean"...!

[pinkhoggirl]

Used to do quite a bit of snorkeling. Only time I used tanks was in Nuie Is....came eyeball to eyeball with a (huge) Humpback whale at 50ft depth

Must have been a buzz! almost as good as the pearl diving...

[soundbeltfarm]

hey patrick my uncle is a dive instructor so may know of a few people in N.P with boats that need another crew and my brother inlaw has a boat but im not sure when he goes out diving i think maily off Opunake or Patea bar.

[pinkhoggirl]

Hey Riff Raff and C4 - I'm keen - on Whangaparaoa - Advanced PADI. Use a Dive Kayak when I can - weather permitting - pretty good at rape and pillage, although I also appreciate a scenic experience. Whenever. PM me if you have space. Any weekend usually.

[Riff Raff]

Hey Riff Raff and C4 - I'm keen - on Whangaparaoa - Advanced PADI. Use a Dive Kayak when I can - weather permitting - pretty good at rape and pillage, although I also appreciate a scenic experience. Whenever. PM me if you have space. Any weekend usually.

Used to do a lot of kayak diving around Whangaparoa. Those 3 wrecks that were sunk as a breakwater about 100 years ago are really cool. Shame they're so shallow tho.

[M1CRO:Me]

Am at Dive Master Level including Nitrox

[Hitcher]

Shame they're so shallow tho.

Shallow is good. I never got into all of that deep, dark, depth-table macho diving shit. Shallow means better lighting, better variety of fish and more spectacular plant life. Much more entertaining.

I never got into diving off beaches either. Too much like hard work walking out through the surf with all your kit on. And, after you've exhausted your tank after an hour and you're buggered, the beach can't come out and pick you up! Sometime I shall recount my Whangarei heads cray dive experience as a case in point...

[sels1]

Must have been a buzz! almost as good as the pearl diving...

Yes it was! The diving in Nuie is brilliant. The water is warm and very clear. . As it is a rock sticking out of the ocean with almost no beachs it gets deep very quickly off the coral reef. with Deep water species come right up close to the reef and you can see most stuff just snorkling. Quite a few (poisonous) sea snakes but a local showed me how to deal them. But spending some time with a humpback whale was awesome, if a little scary for the first time on tanks. These things are the size of a truck, but move with such grace.