New Zealand Reef Ball Projects and Photos
New Zealand is one of the hardest countries in the world to get consents for artificial reef projects....and that's a good thing because their system is set up to be fair with lots of community input. All that said, we have three projects there to be proud of. One was even documented by a Jules Vernes, a Dutch Production Company. Reef Balls in a marine reserve at Long Bay..talk about tough permitting! And there was a fantastic community based project at Opape Mare. Click here for World Mapping System Information on New Zealand
"We have some 30 Bay Balls in the water now, randomly distributed in a fairly tight area of approximately 20m by 20m. One or two will be broken as our concrete mix was not up to specs, but we deployed 6 off the rafts and divers found four the next day in very murky conditions but none had broken. On the strength of this we deployed the remainder of 26 bayballs using two tow boats and four rafts. Divers have yet to go down and right any balls on their sides as weather has been extremely bad. On Saturday 21 we plan on deploying the remaining four reefballs at a ceremonial day at Opape. Most likely Te Karere News will be present, and Trevor Good from Skill New Zealand, our Course funders."
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