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Diving education

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Diving education

In 1989 the New Zealand Underwater Association ran their first diving instructors’ course, in Wellington. Here students check each other’s gear before an exercise.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1989/2295/7

by Ray Pigney

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Diving and snorkelling – Safety and training, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9000/diving-education (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.