Tairua scuba diving group

Posted by Aaron Schmidt (Auckland, New Zealand) on 16 November 2005 in People & Portrait.

Aurelie and I were off at Tairua last weekend to complete our scuba diving certification. From left to right: myself (canadian), Aurelie (french), Susanne (german), Richard (our dive instructor), Orla (irish), Jolien (dutch), and Steve (second instructor). We had an excellent time and got to see some beautiful fish, including a spotted eagle ray and a moray eel.

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Comments (9)

Valerie from PARIS, France

Cool, congratulations on your scuba diving certification ! A spotted eagle ray is a nice encounter for first dives :-) Enjoy yourself ! Have you planned to dive a lot now ? There must be nice dive sites in New Zealand, not to mention Australia which is not too far away...

16 Nov 2005 8:03am

Guillaume from France

My gosh! Aaron, what happend to your hair?

16 Nov 2005 9:52am

Harlem from Canada

That's awesome, must've been alot of fun.....how deep did you dive? How deep are you allowed to dive?

16 Nov 2005 1:47pm

Sophie from France

Même question que Guillaume : alors comme ça, la période "Jackson five" elle définitivement terminée ?...

16 Nov 2005 1:51pm

Jason Kravitz from United States

When are you getting an underwater camera ?! Looks cold if you are wearing a turtle neck - is this before or after and was it cold??

16 Nov 2005 2:13pm

Aurélie from Auckland, New Zealand

Hi there,

With our Open Water qualification, we can dive up to 18meters. We went down 17meters last week-end and passed the 14 meters, you can really feel the water getting a LOT colder. In average the water was between 15-17C.

I guess we would like to pass our advanced qualification that would take us down to 30meters where things might get a little more exciting. But still, there are lots of beautiful diving places in NZ. We even have one of the top 10 diving site in the world: Poor Knights Island (about 2.5 hours north Auckland).

We had an amazing time and cannot wait to go diving again :)

16 Nov 2005 6:30pm

Aaron Schmidt from Auckland, New Zealand

Just for clarification, it was a PADI open water diving certificate.
Guillaume, Sophie - The crazy fro style, c'est fini ... it's too hot in NZ to wear so much hair.
Harlem - We went down to 17m and we're allowed to go down to a depth of 18m (60 feet).
Jason - This was bright and early in the morning before our first dive. I'm actually wear a rash shirt that acts as a thin layer between your skin and the the 5mm wetsuit jacket.

16 Nov 2005 7:44pm

Shuva from United States

Must have been really nice doing the dive!! I wish I knew how to swim in the first place :-(

16 Nov 2005 10:39pm

Richard the Diving Priest from Auckland, New Zealand

Come and dive the wrecks with me in January as well as the Poor Knights. I'll even let you use my underwater camera.

20 Dec 2005 2:41am

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