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<\/a><\/p>\nThere are wrecks out here – 4 to be exact. Located on the South Coast this site is exposed to some of the best and worst conditions Wellington has to offer. I found this out early on when I was caught in a rip. We were at the Yung Pen within a two\u00a0minutes and it took another twelve to crawl back to the exit against the current, needless to say I have never dived the site again with southerly swell.<\/p>\n Now part of the Taputeranga Marine Reserve it is great to see the marine life recover and divers able to see a wide variety of marine life including blue cod, red and blue moki, marblefish, butterfish, conger eels, crayfish, octopus and more.<\/p>\n I was lucky enough to dive this site last week and log my 200th dive at Owhiro Bay. Claire<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years I have been saying that Owhiro Bay is my favourite dive site and that I have done 100’s of dives here. It turns out I was lying or at least exaggerating. A count of my logbook earlier this year showed I had only done 197 dives here since I started diving in 1997. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-trips","category-general-interest","category-wreck-diving-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYung Pen<\/strong> – sunk 12th December 1982. Straight out front in the channel, the hull section lies in 5-7m of water and is home to crays, moki and marble fish.
\nProgress<\/strong> – sunk 1st May 1931. Out to the left the most obvious section is the ‘Boiler’ home to many baby cray.
\nWellington<\/strong> – sunk 7th March 1874. Little remains from this historic ship but you can see the anchor and the donkey boiler out to the right.
\nCyrus<\/strong> – sunk 7th March 1874. You have to look closely to see remains of this historic ship but some copper and brass fittings can be found.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
\nNow I won’t be lying when I say this is my favourite site and I have done 100’s of dives here.<\/p>\n