Dive Pacific Iss 171 Oct- Nov 2019
New Zealand's dive magazine featuring in this issue: Shooting big sharks, up close; Spearfishing at night!; Remembering a great Kiwi dive pioneer, Wade Doak; Forgotten Vanuatu wreck's claim to fame; The invasive Lionfish - in depth, plus all our expert columnists
New Zealand's dive magazine featuring in this issue: Shooting big sharks, up close; Spearfishing at night!; Remembering a great Kiwi dive pioneer, Wade Doak; Forgotten Vanuatu wreck's claim to fame; The invasive Lionfish - in depth, plus all our expert columnists
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SOUNDINGS<br />
LOCAL NEWS<br />
New book on<br />
Poor Knights Marine<br />
Reserve published<br />
The first level of protection for the Poor Knights<br />
Islands Marine Reserve, ‘for perhaps the most<br />
bio-diverse assemblage of marine organisms in New<br />
Zealand’ was won 38 years ago. Now a new book<br />
details the struggle to bring this about, the people<br />
involved, and what happened over the years since.<br />
During the environmental awareness times of the<br />
early 1970s a national campaign was instigated to<br />
protect the islands as a marine area. It had the full<br />
backing of the community, but there was disagreement<br />
over what form the protection should take.<br />
The Poor Knights Marine Reserve, The protection of a<br />
unique marine environment, relates some of the islands<br />
early history before going into more depth on the<br />
people, the issues and debate over some 21 years until<br />
the islands won total protection in 1998.<br />
Keith<br />
Hawkins<br />
indicated possible funding for such a project, then<br />
budget cuts put an end to that.<br />
Keith decided to collect the information needed in a<br />
private capacity in the hope someone would pick up<br />
the task. And over a 10 year period he has spent many<br />
weekends and evenings phoning and interviewing,<br />
and working through the archives. Dave Moran, NZU<br />
and many others helped out.<br />
But those involved with useful knowledge who he had<br />
interviewed kept on passing away. They including<br />
Rob Dinsdale, Yaan Voot, Brian Main, Sport Conway,<br />
Barbara Cotterill, Lew Ritchie, Phil Bendle (<strong>Dive</strong> NZ, <strong>Oct</strong><br />
2018, <strong>Iss</strong>ue 166) and this year, Roger Grace.<br />
Keith says “To do nothing would see the information<br />
lost and the contribution by many people, individually<br />
and in a number of organisations, would be unknown.”<br />
“I have self-published the material and the book is<br />
currently being printed (mid-September <strong>2019</strong>).”<br />
The Poor Knights Marine Reserve, The protection of a<br />
unique marine environment contains recollections from<br />
20 ‘old timers’, 50 shorter anecdotal stories, over 100<br />
photos and 10 maps to flesh out this previously undocumented<br />
account of New Zealand’s community driven<br />
conservation history.<br />
A4 landscape, soft cover, 168 pages. ISBN: 978-0-473-<br />
47110-1.<br />
Available by email PoorKnightsBook@gmail.com and at<br />
<strong>Dive</strong> Tutukaka RRP $45.00<br />
Author Keith Hawkins, a keen recreational diver<br />
and angler, was responsible for the day to day<br />
management of the Poor Knights Islands Marine<br />
Reserve from 1992 to 2013. His interest and<br />
research led him to become intimately familiar<br />
with the people involved and with the reserve’s<br />
history.<br />
At a formal celebration at Tutukaka to celebrate<br />
the first 25 years (See <strong>Dive</strong> New Zealand, Feb/<br />
March 2006) it was mooted ‘someone’ should<br />
document what had occurred to bring the<br />
reserve about while those involved were still<br />
around. The Department of Conservation<br />
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