Update: Diving New Zealand

  Dive Sites of New Zealand • New Zealand Dive Operators• New Zealand Accommodation• Books to Take to New Zealand • Your Comments" Just as many fish as any tropical site in the world but they are all 10 times the size. Tropical and temperate currents combine to create one of the most unique sites in the world. Caves, rare species, pelagics: you name it. "
Rich M " The only place in 20 years of diving I have had 150ft of vis + saw killer whales. "
Regan Washer

" Dives here are limited to one dive company operating on the sound - only 3 people dived the day I dived. Milford sound is probally the most unique place in the world I personally have dived. Due to the Fresh Water covering the Sea Water deeper living sea critters can be seen at open water depths due to the darker waters...cold but great Viz: Spiney Sea Dragons, Octipus, Black Coral, Snake Stars, Dwarf Scorpion Fish, plus much much more... "
Sam Seed, UK, 2007

" The famous wreck of the Greenpeace ship sunk by French secret service. Jewel ananomies, are stunning, and the wildlife abundant."
Cal

"Marine life cling to this piece of history."
Charnelle

"Incredible assortment of rocks and boulders resulting in swim through heaven with lots of marine life including large rays and often dolphins and sharks. decent vis."
Dan Harding, 2006

Trips to the Aldermen Islands.

Tairua Dive Fishinn
7 the esplanade, Tairua Coromandel Peninsula
New Zealand
E-mail : tairuadive@gmail.com

Trips to Fiordland, Marlborough Sounds, Poor Knights Islands, Kaikoura, Akaroa and Motunau.

Moby Dicks Dive Centre
35 Moorhouse Avenue
Christchurch
New Zealand
Tel: +64 (03) 377 6260
Fax: +64 (03) 377 6261
E-mail: mobydicks@clear.net.nz

Diving Malborough Sounds.

Blenheim Dive Centre
9 Scott Street
Blenheim
Tel: +64 3 5780331

Diving Poor Knights, Lake Waikaremoana, Lake Taupo, Fiordland, Mikhail Lermontov and Marlborough Sounds.

New Zealand Sea Adventures
9 Marina View
Mana
Porirua
New Zealand Tel: +04 233 8238
E-mail: nzsa@scubadiving.co.nz

Diving at the Poor Knights.

Poor Knights Dive Centre
Marina Road
Tutukaka
New Zealand
E-mail: info@diving.co.nz
Freephone in New Zealand: 0800 288 882
Tel: + 64 9 4343 867
Fax: +64 9 4343 884

Visit Wellington reef, HMNZS Waikato, Poor Knights, Daniel's Reef, Goat Island, White Island and The Volkners.

Dive HQ Hibiscus
627 Whangaparaoa Road
P O Box 550
Whangaparaoa
New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 424 8513
Fax: +64 9 424 8540
E-mail: info@divehqhc.co.nz

Trips to the Rainbow Warrier and HMNZS Canterbury

Paihia Dive
Williams Road
PO Box 29
Paihia 0247
Bay of Islands
Free Phone 0800 107 551(24 Hours)
Ph: +64 9 402 7551
Fx: +64 9 402 7110
E-mail: info@divenz.com

Visit Rainbow Warrior and Doubtless Bay.

A to Z Diving
13-15 Whatuwhiwhi Rd
Whatuwhiwhi
RD3 Kaitaia
New Zealand 0483
Tel: +64 9 408 3336
Fax: +64 9 408 3336
E-mail: info@atozdiving.co.nz

For discounted hotel rooms in New Zealand see the Agoda site...

Lonely Planet Diving and Snorkelling New Zealand by Jenny and Tony Enderby. Coral Reef Fishes, Indo-Pacific and Caribbean by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers, Harper Collins, 400 Pages, Paperback
An excellent, comprehensive guide to reef fishes, which is small and light enough to pack regardless of amount of diving equipment. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to identify the fish they see whilst diving the tropics.
Read the full review...
Buy from Amazon.co.uk, 20% off
Buy from Amazon.com, 20% off The Rough Guide to New Zealand by Paul Whitfield, 868 pages, 2010

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