For New Year’s 2007/2008 we stayed on a liveaboard ship “Southern Salvor” at Great Barrier Island. It was an old oil rig supply ship from 1968. The vessel was anchored just north of Port Fitzroy. We took the ferry from Auckland and were picked up with a RIB by Dennis, the captain and owner of [...]
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The ex-HMNZS Canterbury was sunk in Deep Water Cove off Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands on the 3rd of November 2007. Within a week there were Blue cod patrolling the bottom as well as Snapper, Leatherjackets and a female Sandager’s wrasse on the wreck. Video of ex-HMNZS Canterbury sinking 10 weeks on, an [...]
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POACHERS pillaging Northland marine reserves of fish have prompted a crackdown by Department of Conservation rangers. Over the holiday season, the rangers have busted six people flouting the rules in the Whangarei Harbour and Poor Knights marine reserves.
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Summer is a great time of year to spot some amazing life in the seas around New Zealand. If you’ve been lucky enough to sight a whale shark, basking shark, white pointer (great white shark), devil ray or manta ray, then bigfish wants to hear all about it! The bigfish project aims to record sightings [...]
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