However during this time our experience grew and together we started diving around new Zealand, mainly doing night diving, cave diving and the odd diving in man made lakes. From here I branched out into doing a few deep dives to over 150' around Channel Island and around Great Barrier Island. From here I started photography a great past time, photographing mainly macro, nudibranches, shells, sponges and the like. I also did a lot of dives at night, in caves and the odd salvage. At one time I had the fortune to do a dive in the aquarium at Gisborne and once at Kelly Tarltons in Auckland.

In 1982 I started a career in professional diving, this was mainly around the New Zealand coast from Whangarei to 175 miles south east of Stewart Island. This work ranged from finding moorings, underwater cutting and welding, the odd blowing up of underwater structures, airlifting and the like.

After my career I continued diving around the coast mainly from Ahipara at the bottom of the Ninety Mile Beach to up around the top and down the east coast to not quite to Wellington. A lot of this diving was done around the Poor Knights, Great Barrier and in and around Kawau Bay. During this time I bought a few books and started a underwater Aquarium and studied some of the sea life , not just in the aquarium but out in the ocean. I feel that during this time I have developed a few skills and knowledge.

Within this area and with this in mind and referanced material I hope to pass some of this information on to students to help with projects and the like.