Adventure Cook Islands: Tauchen und Vermietung auf Rarotonga
Adventure Cook Islands Tauchcenter und Verleih-Spezialist
DAN World Partnership
Adventure Cook Islands is proud to be an official DAN World Partner and to support DAN Asia-Pacific (DAN AP). The Divers Alert Network is a global not-for-profit, member-based organization dedicated to improving the safety of all divers through education, research and training.
Worldwide coverage
DAN Asia-Pacific provides Worldwide Emergency Evacuation Coverage as well as optional Dive Injury (Medical Treatment) Insurance Services for its Members. Moreover, DAN AP makes sure that diving emergency hotlines are manned 24-hours a day throughout the Asia-Pacific region. DAN AP is a part of DAN World, which has over 350,000 members worldwide.
DAN members have piece of mind that no matter where they dive, DAN is available 24/7 to assist in case of an accident ot illness.
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Weiter LesenWrack Neuigkeiten
Identität von unbekanntem Wrack aufgedeckt
In February 2018, Carina and Patrick discovered a small sailing yacht wreck in 70 metres outside Avatiu in Rarotonga. After talking to many locals and multiple dives on the wreck, the identity of the wreck remained a mistery. The only clue to the identity of the vessel was a big letter “R” in the centre of the stern of the vessel.
The breakthrough came recently when Patrick talked to the Director of Maritime, Ngatokorua Ngatokorua (Junior). After hearing the story and seeing images of the wreck, he also confirmed that they do not know about the existence of such wreck. However, he assured Patrick to try to find out more information on his end.
Weiter LesenScooter helmet law changes for Rarotonga
Helmets now compulsory for all in Rarotonga
The Cook Islands government has recently amended the safety regulations one more time.
In recent years, and after much debate within the Rarotongan community, the Cook Islands government had already made wearing safety motorcycle helmets mandatory for all visitors as well as younger riders on Rarotonga. As it did not include most local residents, this law had caused some confusion. Some visitors could not understand why they had to wear a safety helmet on Rarotonga when many other riders didn’t.
This year the government has made more amendments to the act. It is now mandatory for every person riding on a scooter or motorcycle on Rarotonga to wear an approved motorcycle safety helmet. This includes any pillion (passenger), no matter whether the pillion is a child or adult.
Helmets not mandatory in outer islands
The traffic on the outer Cook Islands is not comparable to Rarotonga. Furthermore, people ride way faster on Rarotonga than they do in the outer islands. Therefore, the changes to the safety helmet regulations are only for Rarotonga, not for the outer islands.
Helmets save lives
The new safety helmet law has been in the making since a while and it has many local road safety supporters. However, there are also those in the community who oppose the new regulations.
In the end, the new regulations will save lives. Within a short while, everyone on Rarotonga will be getting accustomed to the new law and always wear a safety helmet when riding on a scooter in Rarotonga.
At Adventure Cook Islands, all our rental scooters come with the riders helmet free of charge. For passenger helmets we only charge a small fee. We use FFM Helmets, New Zealands own helmet brand, made by Kiwis for Kiwis. For more information about our rental scooters, please check out our scooter hire page.
COVID-19 Updates
Cook Islands declared COVID-19 Free Zone
2020 has been an exceptional year in many ways. With the virus spreading and life being turned upside down in most parts of the world, the Cook Islands have managed to stay Covid-19 free until today. With Cook Islands borders being closed for visitors since April, the nation’s tourism industry sector is eagerly anticipating the return of visitors in the near future.
Having said that, we acknowledge there will be a constant risk of the virus spreading over to our little paradise once borders re-open.
As such, we take the health and well being of you, our customers and our staff very seriously. We will be following the Cook Islands Ministry of Health, CookSafe and the dive industry guidelines for contact tracing and equipment sanitisation.
We would like to assure all our customers that it will be business as usual and all our dive activities as well as rental and sales operations will go ahead as per normal. However, we will do everything possible to keep you and our staff safe over this Covid-19 period – and beyond.
Weiter LesenDornenkronenseestern-Entfernung
Crown-of-thorns starfish eradication on Rarotonga
You got to to love the diving in Rarotonga! Great visibility and warm water combined with our fascinating marine life makes scuba diving in Rarotonga extremely fun and explains why many divers keep coming back year after year.
Amongst our natural reef inhabitants are the beautiful Crown-of-thorns starfish, aka COTS and locally known as taramea.
COTS are natural reef predator and have evolved over millions of years. These starfish have thousands of suckers and poisonous spines. Crown-of-thorns starfish are feeding on coral and are important for the natural growth and health of the coral reefs. Their preferred food are fast growing corals. By primarily feeding on fast growing corals they make space for the slower growing reef building corals, which in turn is important for the healthy growing of the coral reef.
Wir Sind Umgezogen
Adventure Cook islands ist nach Aroa umgezogen!
We have moved our office from Kavera Beach 800 metres down the road to Aroa Beach.
Since the COVID-19 border closures in April we have kept ourselves busy. We have moved our office building, decks, containers and palm trees to our new location just across the road from the beautiful Aroa Beach with it’s stunning lagoon.
The Aroa lagoon is a rauí (marine protected area) and one of the best and safest places on Rarotonga for snorkelling inside the lagoon. It is also a great place for introduction dives, diver training as well as for kayaking.
Weiter LesenManatua Kabel Landung
Sektion 6 - Rarotonga - Fertiggestellt
Subsea cable landing and installation work has finally been completed for Manatua Cable System Section 6 – Rarotonga. It has been a busy time with long days and a great team to work with and many laughs and fond memories to keep.
The multi-national dive team consisted of divers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Samoa and France/ Germany.
After cable landing on January 8 2020, the subsea cable has been moved to it’s final position, articulated piping installed and clamped to the sea bed in high energy areas.
Weiter LesenSchiffswrack Entdeckung
Neue Wrack Entdeckung in Rarotonga
A sunken vessel has been found by Carina Wenzel and Patrick Jaletzky.
In February 2018, Carina and Patrick were doing an exploration dive in front of Avatiu. Visibility was very clear and even though the maximum depth of the dive was around 30 metres, looking down and towards the open sea they spotted outlines resembling a ship’s shape laying deep on the drop off slope.
Walhai in Rarotonga
Grossartiger Start ins neue Jahr!
"Was gibt es schöneres, als das neue Jahr mit einem Tauchgang anzufangen"? Das dachten sich Carina und Patrick an ihrem freien Tag und machten ihren ersten Privaten Tauchgang im neuen Jahr. Und was für ein Tauchgang es war!
Sie erkundeten eine Gegend auf der Ostküste, an der normalerweise nicht getaucht wird. Während sie am Drop-Off entlang schwammen, schaute Carina 15 Minuten nach beginn des Tauchgangs zurück und nach oben und sah einen gigantischen Walhai, welcher direkt über sie hinweg schwamm.
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