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FESTIVAL
SPONSOR
7 Blacksmith Lane, Whitianga
Ph: 07-867 1580 E:
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For Compeitions, Saturday Night gala
and Sunday BBQ Breakfast.
Ph Dive Zone (07) 867 1580 or register
online at
Festival at a Glance
Check details at
FRIDAY - Competitions:
Underwater Photography
Crayfish Hunt & Spearfishing.
Evening:Social Gathering at Dive Zone
with speaker Sharkman Riley Elliott
SATURDAY - Buffalo Beach
Beach and water treasure hunts
Olympic Scuba Challenge
Evening:“Pacific Voyagers” Gala
Dinner and Dancing at Salt Restaurant
SUNDAY - BBQ Breakfast and Prize
Giving at Salt Restaurant.
GRAND PRIZE DRAW!
Dive Trip for Two, Diving Niue 2015
Saturday’s Olympic Scuba Challenge Competition
on Whitianga’s Buffalo Beach
11th Annual
WHITIANGA DIVE FESTIVAL 2014
Fri - Sun • 28-30 November
SHARKMAN
RILEY ELLIOTT
SPEAKS AT
FRIDAY’S GATHERING
There is no charge for this
social evening held at the
Dive Zone Store on
Blacksmith Lane. Network
with fellow attendees while enjoying a sausage
and cold bevvie. TV’s “Sharkman” Riley Elliott
will speak. (Riley was recently featured at a
TEDx lecture in Auckland and in Coromandel
Life’s Summer 2014 issue.)
SATURDAY EVENTS AT BUFFALO
BEACH IN WHITIANGA
A great day for the family to bring a picnic and
rug to enjoy the games in the sunshine.
Sponsor companies Mares, Beuchat and Apollo
will be on hand to prize the treasure hunts –
one on the sand for the kids and the other in
the water for adults.
The highly competitive trophy event, the
Scuba Olympic challenge, will take place in the
afternoon. Major prizes will be awarded in the
Mares Prize Stand on the beach.
SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER AND
DANCING AT SALT RESTAURANT
A great evening follows with the Pacific Voyager
fancy dress dinner and dancing on the Marina
Deck at Salt Restaurant. Awesome prizes for
best dressed so use your imagination and dress
using this marine based theme.
SUNDAY MORNING
BBQ BREAKFAST AND PRIZE GIVING
It’s back to the Marina Deck at Salt Restaurant
for the major prize give-aways and BBQ
Breakfast. “We have some wicked major prizes
to be given away Including the grand prize of
a dive trip for two to somewhere warm and
tropical”, says Linda.
Dive Zone Whitianga acknowledges the support
of Mares, Beuchat, Apollo, NZ Underwater
Association and Mission Kayaks, whose
participation helps make this event such a great
weekend of fun for divers and their families.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
See r the detailed
programme or contact Linda at Dive Zone
on 07-8671580 or mobile 0274-827273 for
reservations and details.
Saturday’s Cray Hunt (see above)
and Spearfishing Competitions
Dive Zone Whitianga, organiser once
again for the Whitianga Dive Festival,
has planned a number of different
underwater events for divers of all levels, as
well as a full schedule of contests, challenges,
food, fun, sun, socializing, networking,
education, and even treasure hunting.
The festival spans three days, Friday through
Sunday, but particpants can choose to come
for a day, one event, one party. “And awesome
prizes will be given – over $20,000 worth”,
says Dive Zone’s Linda Bird, “including diving
Niue in 2015!”
Kicking off on Friday will be a two division
Underwater Photography Competition.
Entrants can shoot with a disposable
(cameras provided) or a digital camera. The
flora and fauna of the Mercury Bay always
provides plenty of amazing photography
opportunities.
For those not into picture taking there is
the Great Cray Hunt or the Spearfishing
competition. Prizes awarded for closest to the
“mystery” weight for male and female cray and
the NZUA trophy event for the biggest cray.
11TH ANNUAL WHITIANGA DIVE FESTIVAL • 28-30 NOVEMBER
Celebrating Whitianga’s Water World
Over $20,000
worth of prizes to give away!
Come and join in a wicked weekend
of diving, challenges & partying!!
Thanks to our sponsors...