Ridiculous isn't it but it actually happened last night while putting fins on with lots of waves rolling in. One knocked me over backwards, I stuck a reg in my gob but every wave that washed over me flooded it.
Not a great feeling being pinned down by 9kg/20lbs of lead on your back with a...
Interesting read, not sure exactly when it happened - presumably recently?
Brit couple’s miracle scuba escape after tropical storm left them ‘abandoned in shark-infested waters for SEVEN hours’
A New Zealander is feared missing off the coast of France. Rhys Cochrane failed to surface after diving from a super yacht near Cannes, and police had since called off the search for him, Newshub reports.
Cochrane made the news in 2012 when he rescued an orca from being tangled in fishing nets...
Tragically a third diver has died in just six weeks in an area of coast a few kilometers long :(
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11579839
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76262309/wellington-diver-dead-after-cpr-effort.html
"The pair had dropped their tanks in an...
I can't believe someone else died before the police even released the first guy's name :( Both were in their 40s, on opposite boundaries of the TapuTeRanga marine reserve which suggests they were hunting - I can't stress enough that the South Coast is a SAFE place to dive, this is a real shock ...
Possibly lobster hunting, all of Dive Wellington's charter guys got home safely today. The wording suggests a passing diver found him, but they were found soon enough to give cpr so maybe his/her buddy ;
Diver found dead off Wellington coast | Stuff.co.nz
RIP :(
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