Lake Pupuke is a great fresh water dive site on the North Shore in Auckland. Due to its location – just over the harbor bridge from downtown Auckland- it is often frequented by divers who don’t have boat access to the Auckland Gulf diving. Little or no drive time is also a bonus as well [...]
We are pleased, so pleased, ecstatic in fact, to be able to offer a trip to undisputedly one of the worlds best wreck dives which is right on our doorstep! Yes the Mikhail Lermontov, a 10,000 ton Russian Ocean liner sinking in Feb 1986 has brought sheer pleasure to all those who have ventured to [...]
The Aldermen islands are almost unmapped territory due to the many pins ascending from the sea floor and lurking in the shallows making it hard for vessels to navigate. The most extensive map charted has been made by Jim Hope, the skipper of the MV Taranui. A lot of the mapping was thanks to sonar [...]
This weekend – despite the yucky weather which saw the Poor Knights liveaboard trip cancelled – we had some brave students, divemasters and instructors hit Lake Pupuke for a PADI Open Water course. Congratulations to the team who stuck it out on Saturday and were rewarded with beautiful weather on Sunday.
Easter Weekend at the Poor Knights diving with Yukon Charters and Noel, Pauly and Jo. Diving: Pete, Mike, Skip, Andrew, Anna, John, Jane, Jonathan, Deirdre, Greg, Phil, Marty and me. I watched a lone diver in crystal clear water carrying what seemed to be a Kalashnikov machine gun. He looked up towards the surface and [...]
Skirts in Scuba by Claire Byrne I moved to Auckland from England in February, and I knew that one of the first things I wanted to do in NZ was learn to dive. I started my PADI course straight away, and after a few hiccups (quite literally – for some reason I got really violent [...]
