Dive Sites in New Zealand

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Auckland

Scow Rahiri

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Northern Chief

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Three-masted barque

Dartford

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Iron-hulled three-masted ship

Elinor Vernon

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Barquentine

Dive Site 9239185912

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 4.8m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185878

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 1.3m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185873

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 18.5m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185908

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 10.3m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185911

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 3.1m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185877

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 3.8m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185915

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 2m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185907

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 10.9m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185898

πŸ“ Devonport-Takapuna
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 7.8m
wreck

Columbia

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Four-masted schooner

Dive Site 9239185874

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 14.5m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185916

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 2.6m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185909

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 5.3m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185870

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 2113427108

πŸ“ Rodney
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Jubilee

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Three-masted ship

Dive Site 9239185875

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 10m
wreck

Dolphin Underwater Club

πŸ“ Devonport-Takapuna
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 1036801905

πŸ“ Franklin
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: -0.3m
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Maximum depth: -0.3 meters. Located at 36.8986Β° South, 175.0831Β° East.

Gladbrook

πŸ“ Waiheke
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Iron-hulled barque

Wellington

Opua

πŸ“ Martinborough Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.5263Β° South, 175.5009Β° East.

Tuvalu

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.3614Β° South, 175.8096Β° East.

Dive Site 9231686992

πŸ“ Wellington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 9.6m
wreck

Dive Site 1036801809

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Located at 40.8406Β° South, 175.3976Β° East.

Dive Site 9231686996

πŸ“ Lower Hutt
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9231686997

πŸ“ Wellington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 17.2m
wreck

Dive Site 9231686986

πŸ“ Martinborough Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9231686990

πŸ“ Wellington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 47m
wreck

Dive Site 9231686988

πŸ“ Dyerville
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Southland

Ino

πŸ“ Waihopai Toetoe Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 46.5782Β° South, 168.7994Β° East.

Tarawera

πŸ“ Stewart Island / Rakiura Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 46.9284Β° South, 168.1859Β° East.

Waikare

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.7664Β° South, 166.5441Β° East.

Dive Site 9236618688

πŸ“ Invercargill City
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9236618687

πŸ“ Dean
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9236618766

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 20.3m
wreck

Othello

πŸ“ Stewart Island / Rakiura Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 46.9120Β° South, 168.0475Β° East.

Dive Site 9236618765

πŸ“ Dean
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 85m
wreck

Dive Site 9236618767

πŸ“ Fiordland Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 3.1m
wreck

Otago

Victory

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

shipwreck in New Zealand. This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.8411Β° South, 170.7325Β° East.

Hananui II

πŸ“ Otakou
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 45.8110Β° South, 170.7442Β° East.

Auckland Region

Dive Site 9239185879

πŸ“ Surfdale
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 0.2m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185871

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 27.4m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185899

πŸ“ Chatswood
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 11.6m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185913

πŸ“ Kawau Island
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 5.8m
wreck

Taranaki

SS Waitangi Shipwreck

πŸ“ Pātea
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

SS Gairloch

πŸ“ North Taranaki Bight
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

late 19th century Northern Steamship Company ship in New Zealand, sunk in 1903. This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 39.1182Β° South, 173.9181Β° East.

Canterbury

Breeze

πŸ“ Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 43.5954Β° South, 172.7860Β° East.

Dive Site 9236468453

πŸ“ Glentunnel
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 22.5m
wreck

Queen

πŸ“ Banks Peninsula Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Victory II

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Other Locations

Compadre

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Invercauld

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9220189259

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 1m
wreck

Derry Castle

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

The Derry Castle was a 1,367Β ton iron barque built at Glasgow in 1883, and initially operating out of Limerick, Ireland. She had been registered there on 19 November 1883 by Francis Spaight & Sons. In 1887 while voyaging from Australia to the United Kingdom with a cargo of wheat, she foundered off Enderby Island, in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, on a reef which now bears her name.

Grafton

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Hawke's Bay

Maroro

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 40.2188Β° South, 176.7803Β° East.

Dive Site 1036801799

πŸ“ Napier
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 39.4781Β° South, 176.8996Β° East.

Marlborough

Go Dive Pacific

πŸ“ Melville Cove
🌊 Pacific Ocean

MS Mikhail Lermontov

πŸ“ Te Anamahanga / Port Gore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 11.2m
wreck

Soviet cruise liner wrecked in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. This is a dangerous wreck. Historic wreck site. Maximum depth: 11.2 meters. Located at 41.0487Β° South, 174.2031Β° East.

Blackball

πŸ“ Te Whanganui / Port Underwood
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.2955Β° South, 174.1327Β° East.

Dive Site 1036801878

πŸ“ Rapaura
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.0160Β° South, 174.0412Β° East.

Dive Site 1036801796

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.0149Β° South, 174.0406Β° East.

Alameda

πŸ“ Cutters Bay
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.3440Β° South, 174.1322Β° East.

Holmwood

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a hull_showing wreck. Historic wreck site. Located at 41.3447Β° South, 174.1322Β° East.

Dive Site 1036801948

πŸ“ Waitata
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 40.9763Β° South, 173.9021Β° East.

Bay of Plenty

Taioma

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 17.7m
wreck

MV Rena

πŸ“ Bay of Plenty
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

MV Rena was a 3,351Β TEU container ship owned by the Greek shipping company Costamare Inc. through one of its subsidiaries, Daina Shipping Co. The ship was built in 1990 as ZIM America for the Israeli shipping company Zim by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Kiel, Germany. She was renamed Andaman Sea in 2007 and had sailed under her current name and owner since 2010.

Dive Site 9234532505

πŸ“ Mount Maunganui
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Northland

Iron Maiden

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9236894296

πŸ“ Ngunguru
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9236894289

πŸ“ Bay of Islands-Whangaroa Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9236894288

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 12m
wreck

Dive Site 9236894287

πŸ“ Bay of Islands-Whangaroa Community
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 1m
wreck

Northland Region

Waikato

HMS Buffalo (Historic Wreck)

πŸ“ Whitianga
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 0.3m
wreck

Dive Site 9239185869

πŸ“ Whatawhata
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9234532504

πŸ“ Whatawhata
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wellington Region

Dive Site 9231686994

πŸ“ Seatoun
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 8.2m
wreck

Chatham Islands

Sea Fresh 1

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 12.7m
wreck

Dive Site 9220189260

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 4.7m
wreck

Marlborough Region

Dive Site 1225292565

πŸ“ Port Underwood
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

West Coast

SS Lawrence (1891)

πŸ“ Karamea Bight
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Billys Lost Boat

πŸ“ Okarito Lagoon
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Southland Region

Dive Site 1036801818

πŸ“ Bluff
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 46.6135Β° South, 168.3603Β° East.

Dive Site 1036801873

πŸ“ Stewart Island / Rakiura
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 46.9068Β° South, 168.1357Β° East.

Dive Site 9236618763

🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 24m
wreck

Manawatu-Wanganui Region

Hydrabad Shipwreck

πŸ“ Waitarere Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Hydrabad was an iron cargo and passenger sailing ship. This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 40.5636Β° South, 175.1897Β° East.

About Diving in New Zealand

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