Story: Diving and snorkelling

More links and websites

• Association Internationale pour le Developpement de l'Apnee

  AIDA International is a page for freedivers and has information for all interested.

• CMAS World Underwater Federation

  This site gives information about underwater sports such as fin swimming, underwater hockey, and spearfishing.

• Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter & Underwater World

  This site describes the ocean animals that can be seen from a diver’s eye view in the overhead aquarium and regular activities at the underwater world.

• New Zealand Underwater Association

  This site provides information about safe diving, diving sites, clubs, and underwater sports and events.

• PADI: the way the world learns to dive

  The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) develops programmes that encourage interest in scuba and snorkel diving. This site provides information about training and diving around the world.

• Wade T Doak

  This is the blog of Wade Doak, a diver and marine conservationist, whose interests include salvage of historic wrecks, treasure diving, underwater film making and research. It gives information about his activities in these areas and Project Interlock – a study of the capacities of dolphins.

More suggestions and sources

• Doak, Wade. Ocean planet: the underwater world of Wade Doak. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
• Enderby, Jenny, and Tony Enderby. Diving & snorkelling New Zealand. Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2002.
• Thompson, Sue, compiler. 50 years of New Zealand underwater. Auckland: New Zealand Underwater Association, 2003.