Ghost Diving NZ

23/05/2026

Free Freedive Training! 💚 Free for males 35-54, anyone else can join for $150. Run by the lovely people at Dive Wellington.

Nikau Foundation Rainey Collins Lawyers The Gift Trust Wellington City Council

Calling all males 35-54! (AGAIN)
If you emailed us last time and never heard back please check your junk mail or give us a call!

FREE Freediving Safety Course
Dive Wellington x Water Safety New Zealand

1x Pool session this weekend, 1x Sea session next weekend, 1x Boat session to be scheduled.
This course is subsidised by Water Safety NZ and is FREE for Males aged 35-54yrs old. However anyone is welcome on this course, if you do not meet the subsidised bracket the course cost is $150 for all three sessions.
Instructed by our PADI Freedive Instructor Elliot, this course is perfect for anyone already collecting or interested in collecting Kaimoana. If you attend both the pool and sea sessions you will be treated to a freediving boat charter, skippered by Dave.
You will learn how to snorkel and freedive safely, rescue techniques, breath-hold techniques, and how to collect kaimoana safely!

Sign up with some mates, learn something and get diving!
Call 04 939 3483 to secure your spot!

04/05/2026

One of the phones found this weekend looks like it hasn't been in the water for long and may still be recoverable, or at least able to download photos etc. If this phone is yours please get in touch and we are happy to return it to you.

03/05/2026

**Oriental Bay Tugboat Clean Up**
A fantastic crew of dedicated volunteers turned up to fight the wind chill and remove 386.5kg of rubbish from the ocean.

This haul of 554 items consisted of:
128 glass bottles
14 plastic bottles
37 cans
21 takeaways lids
30 glass pieces
31 items of metal
146 plastic pieces
12 vapes
1 car battery
2 bike bits
32 items of attire
5 bit of cutlery
14 electronic items (including 5 mobile phones, and 5 Apple watches)
2 face masks
10 bits of fishing parafanlia
3 bit of ceramics
3 road cones
13 bits of rope
2 electric scooters (bringing our total to 157)
18 items of sport gear
2 tires
25 random items including a plastic 44 gallon drum, bar stool, trecking pole, spark plugs and a clay plant pot.

Amongst all this stuff we found and returned to a much cleaner 427 critters:
139 chitons
14 cats eyes/top snails
4 limpets
3 whelks
18 bivalves
2 octopuses
47 cushion stars
3 11-arm seastars
1 7-arm seastar
2 kina
1 sea cucumber
14 half crabs
5 hermits crabs
3 pie crust crabs
11 decorator crabs
2 stalk eye crabs
4 pill box crabs
8 mud shrimp (one carrying eggs)
5 other crustaceans
3 triple fins (fish)
1 cling fish
68 sea squirts
9 ribbon worms
54 segmented worms
3 sponge masses
2 egg masses
1 bryozoan mass.

Great effort by everyone there! Tangaroa thanks you.

Nikau Foundation , Wellington City Council, The Gift Trust, Rainey Collins Lawyers

28/04/2026

Some more pics of the weekends activities.
Thanks to all that attended and special thanks to our good friends at Aotearoa Dive for organising such a successful day.
Nikau Foundation Wellington City Council The Gift Trust Rainey Collins Lawyers Volcanic Dive Squad Petone Beach Clean Up Crew Ngati Rangiwewehi Iwi Ghost Diving Healthy Seas Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards Earth Sciences New Zealand Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club The Breeze Wellington 94.1 & 98.5FM STANLEY Southern Cross Cable Network Dive Xtras Keep New Zealand Beautiful Bartercard New Zealand Motutere Bay TOP 10 Holiday Park

27/04/2026

This ANZAC weekend some of the Ghost Diving NZ crew made the trek to Rotorua to help our friends at Aotearoa Dive with a different kind of clean up. Ngati Rangiwewehi Iwi had put out the call for help to remove the invasive 𝐿𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 aka oxygen w**d from the beautiful Hamurana Springs.

~200 volunteers removed more than 10 cubic metres (see the pile below) of invasive w**d that has been suffocating this waterway and the taonga species living within it.

Mahoosive thanks to everyone organising this event, and of course the sponsors that help us help our environment.

Nikau Foundation, Rainey Collins Lawyers, The Gift Trust, Wellington City Council, Volcanic Dive Squad.

11/12/2025

Our search and rescue record had another win tonight with the finding of a set of lost car keys in the water at Days Bay Pier.
We recently noticed a post on 'The Official Lower Hutt Community Notice Board' page whereby a member had dropped their car keys into the water and was hoping to get them back.
Tonight was just too lovely not to dive so once the last East/West Ferry had been, Ghost Divers Eddie Van Halen Howard and Stuart Day entered the water with Nick Johnston as shore support. We found the keys in record time and within 500mm of the shot line we used as a reference off the pier. Was so good to see the amazing dive flag float recently purchased from our friends at Aotearoa Dive and manufactured by Alastair Booth in use.
We have been in contact with the owner and will get the keys back to him ASAP.
A fantastic end to our year. Roll on 2026!
Wellington City Council Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards Earth Sciences New Zealand STANLEY Nikau Foundation Keep New Zealand Beautiful Petone Beach Clean Up Crew Ghost Diving Volcanic Dive Squad The Gift Trust The Breeze Wellington 94.1 & 98.5FM Rainey Collins Lawyers Wellington Alive Dive Xtras Healthy Seas Hutt City Council Southern Cross Cable Network

02/12/2025

Hello everyone,
This is not the news we want to hear. Our fellow conservation friends have had their Hilux and trailer with all their gear stolen.

Please keep an eye out as we love the work Mountain to seas do, sharing the love of the ocean.

01/12/2025

Last weekend GDNZ volunteers got together for our end of year wrap up to celebrate our amazing volunteers, catch up, and enjoy some great kai, hosted by the amazing Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club

Committee member Eddie presented some awesome stats. This year in collaboration with other groups we removed 4360.13 kgs of rubbish from in and around our oceans, lakes and rivers! (Post about more stats coming soon...)

Thank you all for an amazing year, and as always to the RPNYC for hosting us. Looking forward to the year to come!

- GDNZ Committee

18/10/2025

With the clean up cancelation today, we were able to salvage the day by having a fantastic dive on Wellington's South Coast at Mermaids Kitchen with Anthony Larivee, Erin Hewetson, Stuart Day Nick Kiwipapa, Veronica Isgleas, Mal Booth and Al Booth.
This is just a quick video of the scooter Erin, Stu and Ants had, heading first West then East finding some of the coolest rock formations weve seen.
Thanks for a great salvage of the day all.
A huge thank you to all that were planning to come to the clean up, especiall our out of towners, sorry the weather didn't play ball today, but we will be back!
This ocean is not going to clean itself!
Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards Ghost Diving NZ Bartercard New Zealand Dive Xtras The Gift Trust The Breeze Wellington 94.1 & 98.5FM Healthy Seas Ghost Diving Aotearoa Dive Rainey Collins Lawyers Wellington City Council Nikau Foundation STANLEY Bulls Kebabs Keep Hutt Valley Beautiful Petone Beach Clean Up Crew Motutere Bay TOP 10 Holiday Park Hutt City Council Keep New Zealand Beautiful Southern Cross Cable Network

17/10/2025

Well, we tried everyone. We've been watching the weather all week but sadly the wind did not turn enough. The entire Evans Bay is too rough so, in the name of safety, we've had to cancel today's event.
A huge pity but safery first.
Thanks to all that were planning to attend.
And dont worry, we will be back.