Paihia Dive HQ, Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand - Diving the Rainbow Warrior or HMNZS Canterbury wreck dives


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ph +64 9 402 7551 - divepaihia@xtra.co.nz Williams Road, Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Paihia Dive HQ is the Bay of Islands only specialist dive charter and rental shop. We are the official dive shop for HMNZS Canterbury and are experts at taking divers to the Bay of Islands and Rainbow Warrior safely but with a sense of adventure

- Also Paihia's premier fishing tackle shop with a huge range of fishing equipment suitable for beginners to expert game fishermen.

Paihia Dive HQ is the far north's premier dive shop and it's our great pleasure to show you all the wonders of this beautiful part of Aotearoa New Zealand.

We offer trips to the spectacular Rainbow Warrior - jewel of the north - aboard our boat which only takes 10 minutes to reach the dive site. Whether you want to explore and enjoy the wonders of the underwater world for the first time or you want to launch an exciting career in the dive industry, we will help you realise those dreams with our experienced instructors offering quality P.A.D.I courses.

We also have great in store deals on quality dive gear, Kayaks, fishing and surfing gear.

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Dive the HMNZS Frigate Canterbury
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The Bay of Islands’ first artificial reef was 'born' when the former Navy frigate F421 - HMNZS Canterbury, was scuttled in Deep Water Cove. The hulk is expected to become a popular feature of the Northland Dive Trail – a string of wrecks from Tutukaka to Matauri Bay – and will have significant social and economic consequences for the area. As a reef, it is expected to boost flagging inshore fish stocks. read more

Dive the Rainbow Warrior, one of New Zealand’s premiere wreck dives;

The Rainbow Warrior was Greenpeace’s flagship on its way to protest France’s nuclear testing on the Mururoa Atoll when it was sunk by French saboteurs on July 10, 1985, in Auckland Harbour. Three years after the bombing Greenpeace gifted the Warrior to the sea and she now lies as an artificial reef in the Cavalli Island group, a refuge for the marine life she was sunk trying to protect.

At a max depth of 27m the Warrior is now home to a huge variety of aquatic life and is a world renowned dive site.

The Warrior is an amazing dive and truly is the ‘Jewel of the North’.

“When man has destroyed the world through his greed, the Warriors of the Rainbow will arise to save it again”.

Paihia Dive HQ can be contacted at:
Williams Rd, PO Box 576, Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand ~ Ph 64 9 402 7551 Fx 64 9 402 7110
email divepaihia@xtra.co.nz

Dive HQ, Waipapa, Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand, Diving