Trip Report by Sonny Lee and Hannah Van Laanen You know it is going to be a great dive trip when you descend to find an octopus hanging out on the mooring line. This was the first sight that greeted us on our second day of diving! The marine life around the sunken Lermontov was [...]
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Trip Report by Nicole Miller A joint club trip from AUUC (Hannah, Sonny, Stacey, Kirsten), Botany Bottom Scratchers (Ken, Tony, Blair, Brent) and Wellington Underwater Club (Nicole). I wasn’t sure at all what to expect from a weekend of wreck diving on a Russian cruise liner that sank in NZ waters in 1986. However, the [...]
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Matai Bay Trip Report by Hannah Thompson It is always difficult being the younger sibling of a high achieving individual. The constant comparisons to those that have gone before you makes you yearn to yell out “I AM NOT MY BROTHER!!!” I have a feeling the second annual Matai Bay trip felt this way. Last [...]
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AUUC members have cleaned up at this year’s Underwater Festival. Mazdak Radjainia has won the Humans category (07:51) and Still Camera video category (27:01). He also came second in the Big Stuff category (07:05). Ali Perkins has achieved second in the Temperate Waters category (03:21). (The numbers in brackets correspond to times in the video [...]
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Thu, 06 Oct 2011 6:10p.m. The grounding of the Rena and the oil leak has huge environmental implications. There is the reef it now sits on, marine life, and birds. Tony Reid reports on the damage so far. Watch the full video.
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