News, Travel & Events

Staff · Issue 62, Sep/Oct 2011 · pp. 8–18

News, Travel & Events New Zealand’s biggest dive show & photo competition is coming to Tauranga. Resurrected from the highly popular events of old, the event, sponsored by TDI/SDI and New Zealand Underwater Association, will celebrate the New Zealand diving industry and unique marine environment. The event will comprise of a large exhibition featuring equipment manufacturers, government bodies, underwater photography, personalities, education, travel and training agencies. There will be larger outdoor displays with a working recompression chamber on site and an area for wet demonstrations. Guest speakers will give presentations on a variety of topics from marine reserves to cave diving, wreck surveys to what the police dive unit do for day job.The highlight will be the national underwater photography competiton covering a variety of catagories and the selected top images will be displaye…