Wade Doak, New Zealand marine biologist and photographer, was a featured guest in an interview with Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National on Thursday 24 April. Wade talks about the early days of scuba diving, dolphins and protecting New Zealand’s forests. I nearly cried when he talked about diving with schools of Hapuku at [...]

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 Warm ocean currents generated by La Nina have delivered a rare, colourful visitor to New Zealand waters. A catch, understood to be a juvenile Pacific spotfin burrfish, was caught and photographed by Josh Worthington, Cole Whitehead and Blake Hardley on a spearfish trip to Bird Rock, near Cape Brett in Northland. [...]

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It’s that time of year again, the dive club’s annual FOUNTAIN CRAWL, next week. By now you should have received an email informing you on which day. Each individual will be presented with a bottle of sparkling wine courtesy of AUUC and after consuming it we will go for a frolick through the many fountains [...]

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The Surface of the Sea, Encounters with New Zealand’s Upper Ocean Life By Iain Anderson Reed Publishing It is spring. An egg-carrying female red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii, known more commonly locally as a Red crayfish) releases her eggs into the plankton, somewhere between 40,000 and half a million, depending on her size. The spider-like [...]

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Scuba lecture at Devonport library 240408 Thursday 24th April 2008 7:00pm start drinks and nibbles 7:30pm talk Devonport Library, Windsor Reserve Early scuba diving in NZ by Dr Garry Tee (former member of AUUC) Dr Garry Tee took up scuba diving in 1969, when only about 150 people in NZ had used scuba. He joined [...]

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