Diving is my meditation, is it yours too?
If you love diving, you’re coming to the right location, Tairua is home to some of the world’s best temperate water diving.
Lying 12 miles off the coast is the world class diving of the Aldermen Islands. This jurassic group of rocks and islands is the remnant of a volcanic eruption some 5 million years ago! The islands lie close to the continental shelf and are visited in summer by whales, manta rays, sharks and pelagic fish. Year round they are home to the colourful ray of New Zealand’s fish species, especially the colourful sanddaggers wrasse, eagle and stingrays, kingfish and snapper.
The colours at the Aldermens are VIVID, and the life DIVERSE.
We’ve spend a lot of time prospecting and mapping new dive sites (oh, for 30 years or so) and know this area like the back of our hand!
We are totally up for providing as much meditative and scenic diving as you can soak up!
We can just scenic dive if that is the experience you are looking for.
If hunting a feed of seafood is more your thing, we can respectfully gather a feed of kaimoana (seafood) in line with local customs and culture. It is our belief, we are here to co exist with nature, use it as a food source, and source of wellbeing. With that comes a resonsibility to be the oceans guardian, look after it, and head out with the right intentions and reverence with what you are about to do.
Our favourite, is a mix of the two, banging scenic dives, with the chance of a small feed to take hom.
Some of our best hunting is closer to home, with islands like Shoe, Castle, King Rock and Slipper Island all within minutes of Tairua harbour.
Check out some of our diving adventures from over the years, and get in touch if you’d like to come on a scuba diving , freediving or spearfishing adventure with us.
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Awesome day with John and his two young men, fishing Tairua and diving the Aldermen Islands