Dive Sites
Dive! Tutukaka & Poor Knights Dive Centre runs charters to the following sites. Click on their names for details
- Poor Knights Islands
- Seal Rock
- Scary Deep
- The Slot
- Tie Dye Arch
- Sunken Rock
- Sugarloaf
- Cleaner Fish Bay
- Middle Arch/Bernies Cave
- Giant Staircase
- Landing Bay Pinnicle
- Taravana Caves
- Butterfish Bay
- The Canyons
- Middle Channel
- Serpent Rock
- Dutch Cove
- Rock Gardens
- Sand Gardens
- Nursery Cove
- The Labyrinth
- Mary's Wall
- Trevor's Rocks/El Torito Cave
- The Gardens
- Meditation Wall/Brady's Corner
- Gentle Forest
- Rikoriko Cave
- Kahawai Point
- Red Baron Caves
- Crystal Cave
- Oculina Point
- Jan's Tunnel
- Magic Wall
- Ngoio Reef
- Crinoid Cliff
- Imagination Point
- Southern Arch
- The Rock
- Blue Maomao Arch
- Labrid Channel
- Shaft Cave
- The Tunnel
- Fraser's Landing
- Fred's Pinnicle
- Mine Shaft Cave
- Long Cave
- Bartles Bay
- Rogers Rocks
- Bird Rock
- MaoMao Arch
- Rock Lilly Inlet
- Airbubble Caves
- Hope Point
- Dark Forest
- Cave Bay
- Splendid Arch (Barren Arch)
- Cream Gardens
- Wild Beast Point
- Ann's Rock/Astrid's Wall
- Northern Arch
- Cathedral Cave
- Tui
- Waikato
Dive! Tutukaka & Poor Knights Dive Centre
The Poor Knights Islands were named by Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world. Cousteau would know, and Cousteau was right!
Separated from mainland New Zealand, the Poor Knights Islands are influenced by a warm current that originates in the Coral Sea, north of Australia. Water temperature is higher, and visibility significantly greater than in nearby coastal waters.
Tropical and subtropical life forms have become established among the diverse and multiple environments formed by the island's volcanic origins.Underground caves, tunnels and archways are home to an extraordinary variety seaweeds and dense populations of friendly, colourful fish.
