Your Dive New Zealand Articles

Catfish Cull

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +12

3rd annual Lake Taupo Catfish Cull
By Pat Swanson

New Zealand's Lake Taupo Catfish Cull is now a firm fixture on the annual diving calendar. Coming a week after the National Spearfishing Championships, on the last weekend of January, it is a great opportunity for serious, and many not so serious spearos to get together for the novelty of spearing fish in fresh water, and along the way having a positive impact on the lake's ecosystem ...

Titanic

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +12

by Nicholas McIndoe - images Emory Kristof, National Geographic

Interest in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 has endured for 100 years. The accident remains one of peacetime's worst maritime disasters, capturing the imagination of generations like no other. The tragic events of that fateful April night continue to affect our lives today and will generate interest for another 100 years.

The Olympic-class Royal Mail Ship Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, using some of the most advanced technologies of the time and featuring extensive safety measures ...

Orca Rescue

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +12

Orca unhooked from a craypot buoy in the waters off the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
By Dave Moran

On Saturday 4 February Rhys Cochrane (19) had an experience that he will treasure for the rest of his life!
Editor Dave Moran gave Rhys a call to hear first hand about it.
Dave Moran (DM): Rhys, when did you hear that an orca was in trouble?
Rhys Cochrane (RC): Saturday afternoon around 4.30 pm. My father and I were at home when DoC (Department of Conservation) called Wendy at our Cathedral Cove Dive store ...

Editorial 129

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +12

Money the great persuader!
Pure New Zealand - Yeah Right!
by Dave Moran

Some of you may have viewed the following features recently on New Zealand television.
- Shark Finning, TV3, 60 minutes on 11 March.
- Salmon farming in the Marlborough Sounds, TV3 Campbell Live 13 March. (Check them out online)

I have commented on shark finning and the magazine has run articles about it over many years. New Zealand is so far behind other countries regarding shark finning/products it's becoming an international joke. Twenty years ago I would suggest you would not find a shark fin product on the open market in NZ or Australia. Now there are factories producing shark fin products for the local and international markets. There is no quota on how many kilograms of fins can be produced.

This year, finally, government says it will look at finning when they release their: National Plan of Action for Sharks. It is interesting to note that the main reason the government is doing a national plan is because it is under an obligation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to produce one! From where I sit the NZ Government is supporting 100% the production and importing of shark fin products thus condoning the world wide slaughter of millions of sharks just for their fins. Money, money, money!

Chillagoe

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +12

Fossils, Caves, Copper and its 'Ruddy Gore'
By Keith Cardwell

It's all so exciting.
An outback town formed millions of years ago with fossilised coral reef and mega fauna, cave systems to match the best, relics of earlier industrial years in abundance, friendly locals with a pub to match and birdlife to stun twitchers. Then there's Ruddy Gore and the mysteries it still has to give up.

But then talk to any of the local cavers and ...

MV Rena

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +12

Divers want wreck left as an attraction - time sorts out most things!
By Dave Moran

It was only a matter of time before the unrelenting motion of the sea broke the Rena's back and dispatched it to the depths of Astrolabe's reef off New Zealand's North Island just south east of the port of Tauranga.

As we know the sea never sleeps and sometimes she gets grumpy ...

Guns with Tanks

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +12

By Iain A Anderson

While preparing for a dive at Jones Bay north of Auckland, New Zealand, I met a group of four spear-toting scuba divers about to enter the water. This alarmed me for it is extremely unsporting to spear on scuba.

I mentioned this to the group spokesman who assured me that they were just after some kingfish ...

Editorial

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +12

Rena, Sea Shepherd, Wyland
By Dave Moran

Click thru to check out Dave Moran's latest editorial and feel free to leave any comments.

What to do with the MV Rena?
New Zealand Underwater Association is calling for the Rena to be left where she is.
It would be extremely cheaper to cut a few diver safety holes throughout the stern section than completely removing it.
Plus there is the bonus of creating an on going financial return for Tauranga as local and international divers visit to dive the wreck...

Whale Wars with Sea Shepherd and can dolphins and whales have the ability to show and experience empathy?
In our latest issue we have part one of an interview with Sea Shepherd's founder Paul Watson.
I hope the interview gives you the opportunity to see what, drives the passion of this environmental organization.

Wyland Foundation - Dive New Zealand Magazine Recognition Award
Time for nominations. Do you know someone who deserves this Award?

Oceanz 2011

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sat, 1 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +12

The last full weekend OCEANZ conference was held in Auckland in September 1989 - That's 22 years ago which is a long time for any industry not to have a major conference ...

MV Rena Salvage

DiveNZ@divenewzealand.co.nz — Sat, 1 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +12

Those of our readers who live in New Zealand have been following the unfolding situation of the Rena, a cargo ship with over 1300 containers stacked seven high...