Standard dive trip, Tanks and refreshments included. Meet at the Dive shop at 8.00am Likely to return about 3.30pm.
(if you need dive equipment please come to dive shop at 7.45am)

Taioma Wreck Dive

Probably what put the Taioma on the map was that she was the first tug on the scene of the Wahini Disaster in Wellington, New Zealand over 40 years ago.

Sunk off Motiti Island in the Bay of Plenty in March 2000, the Taioma is a 30m long tug built in the 1940's originating from Scotland. Brought to Wellington in 1947, she was bought in 1979 at the end of her life and put on display at the Tauranga Museum, and then finally turned into an artificial reef off Motiti Island.

Sitting on a flat sandy bottom at 27m the Taioma is a fantastic dive for all experience levels because she sits in a 'cradle', still upright and largely intact. There are a couple of easy swimthroughs from side to side of the hull, the wheel still remains in the wheelhouse.
The main deck of the Taioma is around 21m, base of the wreck at 27.5m. Advanced wreck divers only. Most likely to be doing one wreck dive then one scenic or seafood dive.

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