Diving NEW ZEALAND (Rainbow Warrior Wreck Dive, Cavalli Islands)

27 February 2017.
The best wreck I've even had the pleasure of diving! This unique dive is full of history and espionage, and the dive company was amazing too! (Pihia Dive)
A brief colourful history of the Rainbow Warrior:
The Rainbow Warrior was Greenpeace's flagship.On its way to protest France's nuclear testing on the Mururoa Atoll when it was sunk by French saboteurs on July 10, 1985, in Auckland Harbour.
After the bombing Greenpeace gifted the Warrior to the sea and she now lies as an artificial reef in the Cavallii Islands, a refuge for the marine life she was sunk trying to protect.At a max depth of 26m the Warrior is now home to a huge variety of aquatic life and is a world renowned dive site.
The Warrior is an one of the world's premier wreck dives, and truly is the 'Jewel of the North'. "When man has destroyed the world through his greed, the Warriors of the Rainbow will arise to save it again".
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The French secret service sank the Rainbow Warrior as part of Operation Satanic

[@steveaustin9386]

How was the water temperature?

[@trevordistance4170]

Funny you should ask. As part of my Padi Advanced Open Water certificate, I did a wreck dive on the Rainbow Warrior. We went inside to an enclosed area where I felt a chill that made me panic, and I breathed deep and hard until I used up so much air that I had to call upon my instructor to share his air and slowly escape. I have literally never been so scared, and I have no interest in repeating it.

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@@trevordistance4170 Thanks for that. I'm diving the Rainbow warrior and the Canterbury next week. Ill let you know if I have the same feeling!