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Getting to Project Reef
is no easy task...
We require the right conditions, correct tides, swell and weather... we keep our fingers crossed we're available too! Connect to FB for our latest!
"Project Reef has involved significant technical challenge & innovation... an impact on policy... explicitly referenced in the TRC Coastal Plan."
- Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor
Annual Report 2019 Page 26
Let's SCUBA
There'll be no snorkelling at Project Reef!
Project Reef is located 11km offshore, 23m deep! To get to Project Reef, you'll need the right SCUBA certification, gear & skills (and dive buddy!!).
Discover Project Reef!
Noisy Reef!
Hear our hydrophone recordings...
(Including a Humpback Whale... like the one in this video, swimming past South Taranaki!)
If we don't know what's out there, how do we know if there's anything worth protecting?
- Oliver, Student Project Ambassador
Speaking in Reef Revolution... a short, internationally award-winning student documentary on Project Reef.





Project Reef Species
"It is great to see a kid who is 14, 15, 16 standing up and speaking to politicians... It wasn't a school project, this is a project with serious grunt."
- Whanganui MP Chester Burrows (now retired).
Speaking about Project Reef's presentation to the 2017 Education & Science Select Committee.