Marine Studies
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Diving Facilities and Equipment
We run PADI dive courses up to and including Instructor level. The Marine Studies course trains students up to Divemaster level as a requisite and Instructor level as an option. The courses we run include PADI Open Water Diver, PADI Advanced Diver, PADI Rescue Diver, PADI Divemaster and PADI Open Water Instructor.
The Aquatic Centre - Te Pare a Ruahine
The Polytechnic has a fantastic Aquatic Centre with a 25m naturally heated pool and gym. The pool caters for all sorts of activities and includes a 4m deep dive well. For more information see the Aquatic Centre website.
Equipment
Okiwa is our 11.5m Ramco boat. It can carry up to 20 people, 36 tanks and has plenty of storage space. There is a toilet on board, RADAR, a large variety of electronic equipment (including a 150m underwater camera). It is powered by two Johnson 225HP 4 stroke outboard engines.
Weka, our other boat, is 7m long and holds 10.
We have plenty of gear available for Marine Studies students to rent, including Mares and TUSA BCDs and regulators. We also have plenty of dive tanks and a filling station. Air fills are free for our students and tanks can usually be borrowed over the weekend.
As well as the dive gear, we also have other equipment for surveying and specimen sampling, fish identification etc.