Advice on Diving in New Zealand

...ters, New Zealand offers tons of magnificent and easy to access dive sites with a great variety amongst them. Diving New Zealand can roughly be divided into diving on the North and the South Island. Whereas North Island diving in New Zealand offers sub-tropical reefs, beaches and islands, South Island diving has some unique topography and more temperate-water marine life.  The Poor Knights Islands, north of Auckland, are the highlight of New Zealand diving. Listed by Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 places to dive in the world and a marine reserve since 1981, the Poor Knights are a volca...