Boat Tests More Articles >>The Rayglass Legend 2800Tony Hembrow the CEO of Rayglass and his team listen to their customers. They take on board feedback from existing customers and their suggestions are all considered when the Rayglass R & D team get around the design table. more Rigid Inflatable Boats
Last issue I looked at the advantages of a small inflatable which could be put out of sight at home in a cupboard and yet easily transported to the water in the boot of the car. This issue I thought we would take a look at what its big brothers have to offer and their advantages for divers. moreCave Diving More Articles >>ChillagoeFossils, Caves, Copper and its 'Ruddy Gore'
Riwaka Resurgence
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Escape to SamoaThe South Pacific has a way about her. She slowly seduces your body by caressing your skin with her warmth, and unclutters your mind with sparkling images of golden sand and shady palms. Her seduction starts the moment you board Polynesian Airlines’ Boeing 737 outward bound for one of her treasures floating on a turquoise sea. more Conservation/Scientific (marine life) More Articles >>Sponge Gardens Discovered
Underwater Habitat
Aquarius an underwater ocean laboratory icon may close! Sylvia Earle, the Dive Medicine More Articles >>Women Diving and Pregnancy
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Presbyopic Correction for Divers
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Underwater Rugby
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Jeff Clay: A dive in the 1950'sThey say it’s a sure sign of old age when you start writing your memoirs! I catch up with Dive New Zealand occasionally, and with the plethora of new dive gear and methods available I thought it would be good to put on record where us old buggers have come from, before it’s too late. more Editorial More Articles >>Editorial 135Editorial 134Fishing More Articles >>Soft Baits
Fishing from the Shore
Free Diving More Articles >>No one wants to talk about it
What Causes Freediver Blackout? The Deep, Deep, Deep Downunder ChallengeA chain lay out along the footpath stretching to over 60 metres; plastic tags fixed to the chain indicated the length beneath a large inflated inner-tube that the chain was fixed to. The tags started off at 10m and descended in 5m increments until the last tag boldly shouted 60m! more Interviews More Articles >>Jamie McDell
Interview with the singer / songwriter
Interview with the renowned aquatic explorer Casey McKinlay
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People and Places More Articles >>The Ladies of the President CoolidgeBy Neil Vincent
Dreaming of Samoa
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 By Colin GansIf you’ve thought about making rather than taking underwater photos, then wresting control of your camera’s settings is the first step towards your newfound creativity. This means not using auto mode and using one or more external strobes to allow for artificial light to be aimed more precisely... Working with Layers
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Catfish Cull3rd annual Lake Taupo Catfish Cull
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Long strands of giant bull kelp swirl away from the rocks, then flick back. Beneath them, wider strands of Chatham Islands bull kelp do the same. There is no gap to jump into, but on the next surge the kelp opens and I slide into the water. It is cool at around 12˚C but not as cool as anticipated. 
The saying 'know your own back yard' came back to me recently after spending 
legendary 76-year-old oceanographer, may have made her last visit to Aquarius due US Federal funding cuts...
In other words ... optical help for divers having trouble reading their computers, gauges, and digital screens.
Text by Joerg Bungert Photos by Chris Marshall
Ross is a dear old chap, forever smiling and full of stories. He’s a big fellow tall, lean and remarkably fit for a man in his late 70s - and has been a guiding light in Nelson’s diving scene since it first began in the late 1950s. And even before that he was involved in the exciting early days of scuba and snorkelling in New Zealand. 
Divers who are into fishing will always have a huge advantage over the average fisherman. When you spend so much time underwater looking for your food (eg crayfish) you become more aware of the area’s structure, the types of kelp cover and the amount food there. This will, to a large degree, indicate what type and numbers of fish the area will hold. 
Having travelled a fair bit of the world I often stop and look around New Zealand’s coast and think how lucky we are to live in such a great country. Everything to do with the water is so close and achievable to all and you don’t have to have a big ‘flash Harry’ boat to enjoy it. 
'Damn good idea' was my response to a neighbour's suggestion of going to 
It was in 1994 when Adobe introduced layers into Photoshop 3.0 - and a whole new world of artistic freedom and design possibilities has opened up. Today, 14 years later, it is difficult to imagine working in Photoshop without layers. The concept is simple, so simple indeed that it is covered in any beginner’s course. It is like having a stack of papers, each sheet with its own image. We look at the top sheet, but we can make individual layers invisible, change the order or reduce the opacity, making the layer more or less transparent. 
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