It was a quick week up to Nomuka IKI and in the short time we were there, we caught up with friends, dived one of the wrecks, attended a HUGE Traditional Tongan Feast for 350 people in celebration of the opening of a new church, (with six pigs on our table for 30 people) sorted […]
After 10 weeks away, the Mag is back from its $14,000 Holiday.! When we sent it out we was disappointed that we would not have it for probably two weeks!! How wrong we were. It is now packed in a huge crate with shock indicators on the box to tell if it has been miss-handled..HMMM?. […]
“IKI” is a big little boat which hit home as the light truck we were launching her with started to slide down the ramp backwards with brakes on! With 83 gallons of fuel on board, I recon she is getting close to three tonne! With the sun getting low after another big day, Brownie headed […]
Well it has been an interesting season so far and the surprises keep coming. Our actual activates have not been what we expected when we set out, but that is the beauty and challenge of Tonga. We have spent our entire time here in Nuku Alofa more or less waiting. Back in June last year, […]
I suppose you can only have so much fun swimming with whales, snorkelling and diving beautiful coral off classic Tropical Islands, not to mention meeting interesting people, but when your main objective is to continue the hunt for wreck sites, there is always this underlying feeling of AGGH! WE all long for the day when […]
Our Explorer mag is quite sophisticated and runs a software program called “BOB”, to extrapolate all the data and make the unit user friendly…it is an impressive program…anyway, after we started using the software that came with the unit back in October, we realised we should be using the new BOB…so were sent that for […]