Milford Sound Dive Tour for divers without drysuit experience (includes SSI drysuit course and qualification)
- Duration: 8 Hours (approx.)
- Location: Milford Sound
- Product code: DrysuitCourse
You will receive some online learning a couple of days prior to the trip commencement date.
Our dives include wall diving in a group where good buoyancy skills are important. If you are a freshly qualified diver and you are unsure about your buoyancy skills, consider booking the first time dive or inquire about a refresher course.
The standard pricing includes high end Scuba Force diving equipment and a Scuba Force drysuit including undersuit, hood and gloves, wrist computer and a handsfree torch.
Please bring your own thermal underwear to wear under the undersuit. Alternatively any underwear, shorts, leggins, longsleeve tops or t shirts also work. Synthetic or merino/wool materials work better than cotton for warmth.
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Unique to Milford's underwater world are sheer cliff faces, which provide for the most spectacular Fiord wall diving and a totally unique eco system of black coral trees. The coral trees have a stunning white appearance over a jet black skeleton and are normally only found in deep water trenches. Thanks to Milford's heavy rainfall making for a mix of fresh and salt water on the surface with huge mountains casting their shadows over the waters, enough light is blocked to allow these beautiful coral trees to call Milford's Piopiotahi marine reserve home.
While diving and cruising you have the chance to see dolphins, seals, penguins, sharks, eels, octopus, stingray, crayfish, nudibranch and over 150 different fish species.
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Nitrox upgrade and Nitrox specialty courses can be added on as extras in the booking process.
