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	<title>Diving Thoughts &#187; New Zealand</title>
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		<title>Great White Found Diving to 1200 metres</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand&#8217;s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric  Research (NIWA), has been tagging great white sharks around Stewart and Chatham islands for the last 5 years. So far they have tagged 25 with tags that stay on for 6 &#8211; 9 months before floating to the surface. The biggest shark they have tagged is nicknamed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitiangi divers hassled by bronze whaler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two cousins, diving at the Twins near Whitiangi in the North Island of New Zealand, were hassled by a 2 metre bronze whaler on Monday (15 Feb) afternoon. They were about 10 metres from their boat when the shark approached them in what seemed an aggressive manner. As it swam at them for a second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot whales beached in NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the New Zealand Herald, 63 pilot whales beached themselves at Colville Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula on Sunday.  Department of Conservation workers and hundreds of volunteers managed to get around 2/3rds of them back out to sea, but the others died on the beach. These are being buried by Maori from a local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ diver almost drowns in weed</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-diver-almost-drowns-in-weed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of entanglement hazards in Hong Kong, we&#8217;re normally thinking about fishing nets, but a diver in Wellington got trapped in weeds at Owhiro Bay earlier today. He&#8217;s now in a serious condition in Wellington hospital. There is more in the New Zealand Herald.]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Fox Glacier to Charleston</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-fox-glacier-to-charleston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tue 25 Nov:  We were up quite early and checked in with Fox Glacier Guiding about the glacier hike we&#8217;d got planned. As expected, it was off, partly because of the incessant rain, but mainly because the access road to the glacier had been washed away. In fact the news was even worse, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ Swimmer rescued from dolphin</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-swimmer-rescued-from-dolphin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dolphins are normally cast as the good guys, maybe it&#8217;s the perpetually smiling face that helps.  And while they are undoubtedly inquisitive and often seem friendly, we shouldn&#8217;t forget that they are wild animals. Earlier this week in New Zealand a swimmer had to be rescued after a dolphin which has been named Moko wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auckland diving accident</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/auckland-diving-accident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 50 year old man has died off the coast of Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf. He was diving with family and friends when he failed to surface as expected. He was later found on the sea bed, but despite medical attention he died before reaching the shore. Police have impounded his gear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diver&#8217;s memorial missing</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/divers-memorial-missing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/divers-memorial-missing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the New Zealand Herald reported a rather sad story about a missing memorial plaque.  In August 1979 John Barrie Catton was diving a reef north of the Northern Arch in the Poor Knights with two friends when he failed to surface. His body was never found. 3 or 4 months later, a group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Makarora to Fox Glacier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon 24 Nov: It was raining lightly when we set off towards Haast Pass. We stopped to look at some waterfalls, then stopped at Davis Flats for a walk up a Bridle path. The path goes all the way up to Haast Pass, but we were only going to go part of the way. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Fiordland to Makarora via Wanaka (and Rippon Winery)</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-leaving-fiordland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-leaving-fiordland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun 23 Nov: After several great days in Fiordland it was time to leave. We set off from Manapouri relatively early and stopped in Te Anau for petrol. We found the best pie shop we&#8217;d been to so far on the trip and sampled venison and mint lamb pies, as well as a cornish pasty. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Doubtful Sound</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-doubtful-sound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-doubtful-sound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sat 22 Nov: We had arranged to go on a tour including a cruise on Doubtful Sound. This is more difficult to get to than Milford Sound as you can&#8217;t drive there. It&#8217;s also 3 times longer and 10 times larger. We had signed up with Real Journeys and went along to their Manapouri office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Milford Sound</title>
		<link>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-milford-sound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.divethoughts.com/nz-milford-sound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fri 21 Nov: Fiordland gets so much rain that they measure it in metres. Typically it gets between 7 and 9 metres per year, so we were expecting a fairly damp day. But our good fortune continued. It started overcast as we headed to the Humboldt Falls but by the time we got to Milford [...]]]></description>
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