Adventure Cook Islands: Tauchen und Vermietung auf Rarotonga
Adventure Cook Islands Tauchcenter und Verleih-Spezialist
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 LesenIn February 2018, Carina and Patrick found 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 LesenYou 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.
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 LesenSubsea 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 LesenA 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.
"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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