Meet at Tutukaka Marina, M Pier at 8am on the morning of your dive trip. The Dive Now team will welcome you aboard Arrow where you will show your certification card and fill in the required paperwork. A boat safety brief will be done before heading off to the Poor Knights Marine Reserve. The trip out to the Marine Reserve takes approximately 50 minutes depending on the weather conditions on the day.

Onboard the vessel there is water and hot drinks but lunch is not provided.  The vessel has a toilet onboard, a hot water rinse hose, a dry area and a library of marine identification books so you can identify what you have seen on your dive.

The Dive Now team will choose two different dive sites depending on the conditions on the day. The skipper will give you a thorough site briefing including points of interest, wildlife worth looking out for and the best way to navigate the site. Their friendly knowledgeable guides are available if you would like a local set of eyes to point out the local wildlife on the dive site.

Snorkelers are also welcome onboard. There is always a heap of wildlife to see in the shallows and against the walls, and the boat always has fish sheltering under it whilst anchored so you can guarantee that you will be able to get up close with them. 

The surface interval between your 2 dives is spent sight seeing around the islands, going through some of the magnificent archways, caves and bays of the Poor Knights and the skippers are always keen to tell you stories relating to the Islands. After a full day of 2 dives and sight seeing you can expect to return to the Tutukaka Marina between 4-5pm.

New Zealand is temperate water diving and you must have dived within the last 12 months – contact us if you need a refresher. All divers must dive within their certification limits.

What you need to take:

• Full set of scuba gear - BCD, Regs, Dive Computer, Weight system, Exposure suit, Mask, Fins, Boots
• 2 tanks
• Lunch

Global Dive gear hire is to be collected from Global Dive the afternoon prior to the trip departure date and transported by the diver to the boat and back. Check the link for details. 

Alternatively, we can arrange for your dive gear to be rented from the charter boat and supplied onboard. Trip including full gear hire $359. Trip including 2 air tanks $309.

PLEASE NOTE:

Your trip deposit or full payment secures your space. Any outstanding balances are due a week before departure.

If you cancel your space on a trip within 7 days or less of departure you will incur a 100% cancellation fee. Generally trip payments once made are non-refundable, but most trips have a waiting list and we will do our best to find someone to take your space in the event you need to pull out. You can help us, and improve your chance of a refund, by finding your own replacement.

If a trip is cancelled by us due to weather or for safety reasons, a full refund or store credit will be given.

Trip pricing does not include transport. You will need to make your own way to the vessel departure point.

NatureWatch NZ (http://naturewatch.org.nz/) is a citizen science site established for people to share their observations of nature, identify species and set up citizen science monitoring projects. It uses the iNaturalist platform, is free to join and reasonably easy to use. Its an interactive way of tapping into other people’s expertise and learning about your local, as well as the global marine environment. Anyone going on the Poor Knights trip are encouraged to sign up and post observations from the marine reserve on there.

DOCUMENTS

• EQUIPMENT_RENTAL_187.pdf
• DRYSUIT_RENTAL_29.pdf
• Diver_Medical_Form_51.pdf

DIVE SITES

• Poor Knights - Tie Dye Arch
• Poor Knights - Ngaio Rock
• Poor Knights - Hideaway Bay
• Poor Knights - The Gardens
• Poor Knights - Jans Tunnel
• Poor Knights - Cleanerfish Bay
• Poor Knights - Oculina Point
• Poor Knights - Matts Crack
• Poor Knights - Blue Maomao Arch
• Poor Knights - Rikoriko Cave
• Poor Knights - Cave Bay
• Poor Knights - Middle Arch
• Poor Knights - Barren Arch
• Poor Knights - Northern Arch

TESTIMONIALS

Hi Simon/Harry

Thanks for taking the time to make diving the Poor Knights really enjoyable. I know it was your weekend off but you were great and really generous with your time, thank-you it was really appreciated.

Regards,
Heath