Author(s): Sue Thompson

NZ Outdoors

Fifty years of the New Zealand Underwater Association.This book is about people who dive, sharing a love of the ocean and the sub-marine world. There are the hunter-gatherers who dive to put food on the table of artifacts on the mantelpiece or in a museum. There are the film-makers and photographers striving to capture the beauty of the ocean on film. Creators and inventors develop specialist equipment, sometimes leading the world in new ideas. Scientists and conservationists observe and protect our seas, in the hope of restoring what nature created. There are the educators and instructors who train the divers and snorkellers to stay safe in the watery world. Adventure divers travel the world in search of the undiscovered and push new boundaries with ever more sophisticated gear. Other divers simply enjoy being in the water. In New Zealand we are lucky to have many choices of dive sites and dive activities. Over the last 50 years the New Zealand Underwater Association has worked hard to keep 'divers making choices for divers'. A wide variety of views and stories have been generated from that freedom over the last 50 years and these are some of those stories.