New Zealand Wreck Dive Guide (under construction)



SS Elingamite (1902)
West King Island, Three Kings Islands
2585 tons
Length 310.5 ft
Depth 30 to 40 metres
Visibility 20 to 40 metres, typically 25 metres


Kaitawa (1966)


Rainbow Warrior (bombed 1985, scuttled 1987)
Cavalli Islands
Gross tonnage 1182.2
Length
Depth
Visibility



HMNZS Canterbury (F421) (scuttled 2007)
Deep Water Cove, Bay of Islands
Depth 18 to 37 metres
Visibility 8 to 30 metres, typically 15 metres


HMNZS Tui (scuttled 1999)

HMNZS Waikato (F55) (scuttled 2000)
15 to 30 metres
Visibility 4 to 18 metres, typically 8 to 10 metres


HMS Puriri (1941)
Depth 98m

RMS Niagara (1940)
Depth 105 to 121 metres
Visibility 5 to 30 metres

Wairarapa (1894)
Great Barrier Island

Wiltshire (1922)
Great Barrier Island

HMNZS Wellington (F69) (scuttled 2005)

Lastingham (1884)
Cape Jackson, Cook Strait

Rangitoto (1873)
Cape Jackson, Cook Strait
574 tons
Length 209 ft

Mikhail Lermontov (1986)
Port Gore
Gross tonnage 20,352
Length 155 metres
Depth 12 to 36 metres
Visibility 3 to 25 metres, typically 10 to 12 metres during October

Port Kembla (1917)
Depth 96 metres
Visibility up to 35 metres

Ranginui (1995)
Breaksea Sound, Fiordland
Length 28.73m
Depth to 45 to 60 metres
Visibility 20 to 30 metres


Waikare (1910)
Stop Island, Dusky Sound, Fiordland
Gross tonnage 3071
Length 310.1 ft




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