Dive Milford Sound for a world class diving experience. Enjoy the majestic cruise in what is called the 8th wonder of the world and explore the unique underwater realm where deep water species inhabit the shallows.
Descend Scuba Diving New Zealand Offers Milford Sound Dive Tours. Resident to the South Island's Fiordland area are a pod of beautiful bottle nose dolphins, they tend to visit milford sound every few days.. on a few occasions we have been lucky enough to have been chosen to spend up to hour with them in the water. By Descend Scubadiving
View our famous "Black" Coral Trees in diveable depths. These trees normally grow below 80meters, in Milford Sound you can view them from 8m onwards.
Red coral, a protected species, these hydrocorals normally grow only in the deep ocean but can be seen from about 18 meters onwards in Milford Sound.
Milford Sound boasts beautiful wall diving. Some sections are covered in bright yellow Zoanthids.
Friendly blue cod
A diver is viewing a snakestar on a black coral tree. These snakestars form a symbiotic relationship with the tree. The snakestar becomes active at night moving around the tree to steal food of the coral polyps. At the same time the moving action is cleaning silt and other organisms of the tree which keeps the tree healthy.
SF2 Rebreather diver wall diving. The technical deep diving in Milford Sound is unlimited.
Our surface intervals have a difference. Most stunning scenery in New Zealand.
The gateway between worlds. SF2 Rebreather diver descending into Milford Sound.
The stunning Milford Sound topside scenery with our dive vessel Westbay.
Carpet shark hiding in the kelp.
Shark eggs or also called Mermaids purses suspended on a black coral tree. These eggs are laid by our resident carpet sharks and we follow the stages from an egg to a full grown embryo swimming inside.
Reef Octopus moving in for a closer look at a diver.
Milford Sound boasts amazing macro life. This Jasons nudibranch clings onto the end of a hydroid tree trailing some eggs behind. The photographer is watched by the always inquisitive Girdled Wrasse.
Get up close and personal to our local resident the New Zealand crayfish. These crayfish get extra large and friendly as they live in the protection of the Piopiotahi marine reserve.
Beautiful Milford Sound Dog shark, with diver blissfully unaware of the lack of danger lurking beneath. These friendly and inquisitive sharks are frequent visitors on our dive tours.
Diver checking out a Spiny Sea Dragon (Solegnathus spinosissimus). Little is known about this shy Milford Sound local. They are considered a deepwater emergent species. We find they seldom move far from their “home area” and generally can be found in depths between 14m and 30meters clinging to finger sponges or black coral trees.
No patting! On some of our tours the "weird and the wonderful" are visiting. Electric Ray chilling in Milford's Waters.
A dive destination unlike no other, Milford Sound offers the chance to see the legendary black coral trees that grow up to 5 metres tall along with red corals, dog sharks, seals, sea dragon, nudibranchs, crayfish, sea pens, snake stars, octopus... the list keeps going. Fiordland has over 150 species of fish to discover.
We operate with a maximum of just 6 divers and two crew for the most personal experience of Milford Sound possible.
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