If you’ve just finished your Open Water course and you’re wondering whether the wrecks are out of your reach, they aren’t. We take newly certified divers onto both the Canterbury and the Rainbow Warrior most weeks. You dive it with one of our instructors as a Deep Adventure Dive, and it counts towards your SSI […]
Spring is the season we get asked about least, and it is the one that catches people out in both directions. The water is coming off its winter low. Through September, October and November it sits around 16 to 18 degrees, climbing slowly, and it lags well behind the air. A warm, still day on […]
The Story Behind the Wreck The HMNZS Canterbury spent 34 years in the Royal New Zealand Navy before she ever touched Northland waters as a wreck. Built in Scotland and commissioned in 1971, she was the last of the Navy’s Leander-class frigates, and the last steam-driven warship the RNZN ever ran. Over her career she […]
The Story Behind the Wreck Before she was a dive site, the Rainbow Warrior was Greenpeace’s flagship, and one of the most recognisable protest ships in the world. In July 1985, she was moored in Auckland Harbour, getting ready to lead a flotilla up to Moruroa Atoll to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. […]