Most dive centres have to travel a long way to teach a wreck course on a real shipwreck. We have two of them on our doorstep.

Not everyone who comes out with us wants to scuba dive. Snorkelling is the easiest way in, and Deep Water Cove is a great place to do it.

How the SSI Open Water course runs in the Bay of Islands: three days from the heated pool to Matauri Bay and Deep Water Cove, what you need before you start, and what it costs.

If you’ve just finished your Open Water course and you’re wondering whether the wrecks are out of your reach, they aren’t.

Spring is the season we get asked about least, and it is the one that catches people out in both directions.