* Reef Ecology Experience

* Wild Stingray Feeding

* SHARK Diving Cage

* Rere Rock Slide Trips

* Dive Training & Charters

The Prime Minister, as Minister of Tourism, was really impressed by Tatapouri Dive's stingray experience - with the ‘sun-setting, a glass of fine Gisborne wine around a blazing fire, it was hard to get him away!!'

Hon Anne Tolley East Coast MP

 Stingray
(Dasyatis brevicaudatus)

 Stingrays are beautiful and graceful swimmers, gliding like flying carpets of the ocean floor! These flattened-out fish are related to sharks and have a distinctive, sleek tail with sharp spines on it. Each spine has little barbs along the edges like thorns, which sting like a scorpion's tail, to defend the stingray from predators. Their sandy-brown color is great camouflage while they dig into the mud for crabs, shrimp, clams, fish, and worms to eat. Stingray mouths are conveniently located on their bellies, so when they find something, in it goes! If a stingray eats a clam, it eats it whole, crushes it up, and then spits the shell out! Feed the Stingrays with Dive Tatapouri!!!

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Winners: Tourism Eastland 2006 Supreme Tourism Award.