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Post by dustand on Oct 20, 2005 23:11:13 GMT 12
I am going just as crazy in Auckland, just I think I would have turned to the bottle instead of the model shop if I stayed in Gissy
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Post by burbsee on Oct 21, 2005 6:28:06 GMT 12
i love diving for the spectacle to.but wow diving in rarotonga that would be awesome.the reason my father goes is to catch fish(for a feed not fun) and catch the occasional crayufish.one thing i learnt was do not try and catch one in bare hands.pityak when im swimming on top of the water it is worse than when your on the bottom of the ocean.i do not know why maybe because you are just sitting them helpless 6-8 miles from shore and ocean surronding you wre as on the bottom u are basically touching the ground
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Post by burbsee on Oct 21, 2005 6:35:46 GMT 12
woops go tthat wrong 2-4 miles out 6-8 from where we leave.dam that would be deep.i did a real dum thing on my first dive that almost put me off it i ran out of air and was gasping for breath all of a sudden at about 35-45 feet mottored off for the surface at 100 miles an hour left dad not even knowing i had gone and scared him.they told me(the crew ) i flew out of the water.funny know but scarry back then.then the next dive i got a bit lost visibiltiy was shocking only about 2 meteres dark murky water and i was by my self so i just swam aroundfor 10 minutes and then went up.then another time just my father went down and the anchor slipped as it was really roughand we wre a mile away from where he went in he had been down for forty minutes and we did not know what to do eventually we aw this little figure pop up about half kilometre away man was he lucky.shoking stories but hey dont let me put you off!!!!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 21, 2005 7:48:11 GMT 12
I was wading out in wellington harbour up to my chest (which is only a metre deep for several hundred metres from the shore) casting a line, when I saw a funny looking diamond shaped rock, which then came to sniff my feet! Stingray I guess, I've never seen anything move so fast.
I met a dreadlocked rasta from belize lastnight, and we talking about sharks. He goes "look at this mon" then rolled up his sleeve to show a shark bite on his bicep. Apparently he used to be a tour guide, and would pick the "tame" sharks out the water to show the tourists, but one day got the wrong one!
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Post by burbsee on Oct 21, 2005 11:07:42 GMT 12
nothing like that here luckily.those of you that r familiar dad once took of all his gear got his dive buddy to hold it so he could fit into a crack to get a crayfish.how insane is that. he got it to
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Mykillm
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Mykillm on Oct 21, 2005 18:14:09 GMT 12
 My little brother lives over water at Waiheke island and when $$ are short goes out and gets cray fish to feed his dogs , ernt $50 a few years back jumping off the end of a wharf to get a tourist / visitors fishing rod ; visibility was only one foot or 400mm , as he could not see his own hand unless he held it close to his face . He was always trying to get me into it , as he has a dive instructors licence and spare gear , thankfully he is now shacked up and into kickboxing !!!
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Post by burbsee on Oct 22, 2005 6:36:03 GMT 12
once went diving on the east cost at riversdale down by masterton and we went down it was getting darker and darker and then i saw a black layer.it was the bottom but the last 1-2 meteres was all this stirred up crap and it was pitch black i almost s$!t myself you could see nothing at all 0 visibilityso when back to the top about 30 feet and checked out my gages and saw i had used a third of my air cause i was breathing so fast(about 5 minutes in 30 feet)
my divind so far is preety much all i told you.its a bit of a shambels is'nt it
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Post by PitYak Studios on Nov 15, 2005 9:32:04 GMT 12
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Post by PitYak Studios on Dec 14, 2005 19:39:44 GMT 12
Dustand; I think your mam's picture is in this weeks fishing news
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My little brother lives over water at Waiheke island and when $$ are short goes out and gets cray fish to feed his dogs , ernt $50 a few years back jumping off the end of a wharf to get a tourist / visitors fishing rod ; visibility was only one foot or 400mm , as he could not see his own hand unless he held it close to his face .