Dive Times
Issue 55 February 2013
THE Dive Times News from below the surface at Dive Otago
Kia Ora, Welcome to Dive Otago’s first newsletter of 2013! What a cracker summer we have had here in beautiful Dunedin. We hope you have been enjoying it as much as we have and have spent as much time as possible in the water making the most of the great visibility and warm weather. Watching the hundreds of dolphins that have been frolicking up and down the coast and in the harbour makes us all feel happy to be alive! Cheers Dave and Mary One of the local girls was checking Adam out at Blackhead.
Have a Go By Emma Young
Discover Scuba Diving We have had a very busy time in the pool recently with individuals, groups and families taking up the opportunity to give diving a go for as little as $20! Well done to the Discover Scuba Diving participants from the past few months. So Congratulations to Sarah Kinsman, Renee Templeton, Alex Templeton, Anne-Sophie Page, Denis Page, Liz Lewis-Barned, Harry Lewis-Barned, Daniel King, Nick Van De Vlierd, Ramnath Goli, Pete Van De Vlierd, Kristin Nielsen, Johnny Mccallum, Raphael RichterGravier, Alex Murray, Kimberly Irteon, Damini Roy, Thomas Brash, Maxwell Westropp, Mila Aitken, Grace ApuwaBishop, Stuart Barr-Hamilton, Laura Bennet, Blaire Dobie, Christian Fottner, Lacklan Foxton-Smith, Peter Jackson, Susan Jackson, Carmen Lobb, Jacoba Maguire, Clementine Marcelis, Derek Marcelis, Patrick McNamara, Kerry
McNamara, Sandra Meissner, Adam Samson-Witana, Benedikt Schendel, Shahan Verberne, Arwen Weir, Penny Wood and Hayley Yates. Also Fairfield School Group, Mitchell Stringer, Bradford Standring, Sam Gouverneur, Matt Milton, Billie Clement, Joshua Hood, Shannon Inch and Khata Pearce all had a play in our pool on scuba and completed the course successfully.
Short Courses By Emma Young
PADI Open Water Course – January Scout Group Booked well in advanced this course was the course where Dive Otago’s staff were stretched to their limits. We had instructions to get as many scouts through their Open Water Certificate as we could cater for in a four day period. So this worked out to be 3 groups of 8 students. 17 of these 24 scouts came from Australia and we were wondering if they would cope in our environment. We staggered the groups for their pool sessions starting as early as 7am and
with the last group leaving the building as late as 11pm. Of course they got to sleep in the next day. All skilled up from their pool sessions our keen outdoorsy scouts were ready for what the Dunedin environment threw at them. Day 1 in the Ocean was located at Aramoana (the Mokoia Wreck). The groups excelled in the environment with minimal visibility. We had a few hiccups with our Divemasters and leaking Drysuits but we all got through the first day. On our second day we drove to
Short Courses PADI Open Water Diver Course 8th April, May 3rd PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course 16 March, 20th April PADI Rescue Diver Course 15 May
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