Extreme Diving in New Zealand
New Zealand Society
Part 1: The Royal New Zealand Navy Operational Dive Team
5:12pm Saturday 29 December 2012
Deep diving to 50m, mixed gas diving to 54m, above and underwater demolition; what it’s like to be taken to depth in a hyperbaric chamber?
Lynda Chanwai-Earle explores our most extreme and dynamic underwater vocation when she meets the RNZN Operational Navy Dive Team. She is given a personal tour through the Devonport Naval Base, Auckland with Lieutenant Commander Trevor Leslie and Warrant Officer, diving instructor Lance Graham to find out what inspires our most elite of scuba divers.
Gallery: On board the HMNZS Manawanui
- 17:30 The Royal New Zealand Navy Operational Dive Team
Lynda Chanwai-Earle explores our most extreme and dynamic underwater vocations when she meets our Operational Navy Dive Team. Disarming live explosives underwater, body recovery, international deployments… Lynda finds out what drives this elite team of scuba divers. (30′27″)
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Warrant Offficer, Diving Instructor Lance Graham with the oxygen mark in the hyperbaric chamber.
The Team
Presenter:
Lynda Chanwai-Earle
The history and diversity of New Zealand’s most extreme and dynamic underwater career and sports; scuba and free-diving is little known. As an experienced recreational scuba diver herself and recently having joined a local free-diving club to learn more about competitive breath-hold/apnea diving, Lynda Chanwai-Earle explores these fascinating vocations.
Throughout this four part documentary Lynda meets Navy divers, commercial paua divers, NZ Police divers and chats to our world champion free-divers who can breath-hold for as long as the interview. She even gets into her wetsuit for some underwater action of her own!
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