The diving here is simply incredible. Many local divers regard White Island as being right up there with the best - as good or even better than the Poor Knights Islands. Visibility can exceed 40m and schooling fish often attract the sort of predators you yearn to see underwater - bronze whaler and blue sharks, mako sharks, marlin, tuna and kingfish. Down in the depths expect to spot huge packhorse crayfish (lobsters), groper, bass and even black coral.
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