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Environmental Sustainability.
Managing our natural and cultural resources in a sustainable way, so they are here for the future is the meaning of an age-old Maori concept; kaitiakitanga. This clip profiles Dive! Tutukaka and how they passionately believe in conservation, and sustainable management of the environment.
Explore! the Poor Knights.
Explore the famous Poor Knights Islands on board Perfect Day. Kayak, snorkel, sunbath, relax, listen to the Maori history, soak up the sun, the dramatic scenery and enjoy a Perfect Day.
A typical Dive! day.
Oren Harel filmed this typical day out to the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka.
Dive! Tutukaka the PoorKnight IslandsSinking the Waikato, November 25 2000.
The frigate ex HMNZS Waikato was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, 1966, and commissioned into the New Zealand Royal Navy the same year. At 113.4m long, 12.5m beam and a draft of 5.5m, she was the first of the Leander class frigates built for the navy. She had a top speed of 30 knots and was powered by twin steam turbine engines developing 30,000hp.
She was armed with twin 4.5 inch guns in the turret, two 20mm Orlikeon machine guns on the wings, a quad Seacat anti-aircraft missle launcher, six anti-submarine torpedo tubes, and a Wasp helicopter capable of dleiver depth charges.
She served the RNZ Navy until 1998. Finally sent to her resting place on November 25 2000 in a world record time of 2 minutes 40 seconds, she now rests in 28 metres of water and is the only purpose sunk frigate in the Southern Hemisphere with her turret and one propellor left on the ship.
Wreck diving
Diving the Tui and the Waikato - Five Years On.
The Tui and Waikato were sunk in 1999 and 2000 respectively. The amount of growth and fish life, combined with these purpose sunk dive wrecks, gives a fantastic dive, and the ultimate wreck training ground ten minutes off the Tutukaka Coast.
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ChrisineAwesome day! You were a great crew and I enjoyed it very much!
