Lets Go Diving-22 Aug News

The water conditions have improved greatly. We have been getting reports of up to 12m visibility at the breakwall on Tuesday 20th with lots of fish life at Fly Point and the Pipeline. Temperatures in the water are still 17 degrees although we have been getting some glorious weather through out the days up here, warm enough to forget its winter J Both boats are going out on Saturday and Sunday this weekend, so if your interested and haven’t book a spot yet call the shop.

Night time high tides are back next week. Rowan is always keen for a night dive so call the shop if you’re interested. We also have a great range of torches in store to suit every diver from $60.

The Narki Gnomes are enjoying their time inBaliand have moved on from the Tulamben resort to the second stage of the trip in Candidasa. We haven’t seen a lot of photographs as yet although I’m expecting to see a lot of video from the trip.

Whilst in Bali Adam and Emma are testing and comparing the Go Pro Hero2 and Intova SP1 Sport Pro. Both compact video recorders are available in store, so keep an eye out for their reviews. Rowan and another group of Narki Gnomes are off to Eua, Tongaon the 4th September, so we are looking forward to seeing one of these cameras in use with the humpback whales and cave systems.

Don’t forget if you are keen to dive and you hold current Narki Gnome Dive club membership, you can take advantage of our free buddy service. Just call us to let us know when you are keen to dive and we will make sure you have a buddy. Also if you are keen for a particular dive site or boat dive which is not scheduled please let us know as we will do our best to get one planned for you.

The PADI Deep & Enriched Air courses on the 25 & 26th August are proving popular. Give us a call if you are keen to join as there are a few spots left. If you are already a qualified deep diver and would like to join on a Macleay/Oakland double dive on Sun 26th please book in. Don’t forget we also have a trip to the Sitara & Edith caves planned on 9th September for deep & tech divers – reserve your spot now.

For those of you who are curious about entering the professional dive path, we are hosting a PADI Go Pro Careers Seminar evening on 1 September. Please contact us for further information.

FIJI  UPDATE – We are booked from 2-7 Nov, for 6 nights at the Uprising Resort with 4 shark dives and 4 coral reef dives. Costing from $1700 for dorm share, if you are keen get you’re booking form in now so you don’t miss out!

Next courses start:

If these dates don’t suit please contact us to suggest alternate dates

Introductory dives: every suitable high tide – call us!

PADI Open Water: 01 Sep

PADI Advanced: 09 Sep

PADI Enriched Air diver: 25 Aug

PADI Deep diver: 25 Aug

PADI Rescue Diver: 29 Sep

Specialty Packages: Start every weekend

PADI Instructor Development Course: 10 Nov

Emergency First Response Instructor Course: 17 Nov

SSI Freediver, Level 1: Call us with your preferred dates.

Dive schedule:

This is our current dive schedule, but we are always open to suggestions & requests.

Wed 22 Aug

11.27am, 1.6m high tide

Thu 23 Aug

12.20pm, 1.6m high tide

Fri 24 Aug

1.19pm, 1.6m high tide

Sat 25 Aug

8am Double Boat Dive @BroughtonIsland

2.27pm, 1.6m high tide

Sun 26 Aug

8am Double Boat dive @BroughtonIsland

8am Double Boat Dive @ Macleay/OaklandWrecks

3.39pm, 1.6m high tide

Tide Times for the week

Monday 27 Aug – 4.47pm

Tuesday 28 Aug – 5.46pm

Wednesday 29 Aug – 6.25am or 6.38pm

Thursday 30 Aug – 7.12am or 7.25pm

Friday 31 Aug – 7.55am or 8.07pm