New Zealand Spearfishing Clubs

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About: If you live in New Zealand and have an interest in spearfishing you should find information here to support that. Our aim is to look after and reflect the interests of all spearfishers and spearfishing clubs throughout NZ.

The NZ Spearo Community on Facebook is awesome too!

Auckland

• Name of club: Port Valley Spearfishing Club
• Location: Auckland
• Contact details:  Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?) Unknown
• Summary of club activity: Oldest club in NZ. Current holder of the interclub Mudgeway trophy – oldest competition mug in NZ

Auckland

• Name of club: Auckland Freediving Club
• Location: Auckland
• Contact details:  Website | Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?) Unknown
• Summary of club activity: A mix of competitive freediving and spearfishing. Pool training at least twice a week and depth training once a week during summer (and more if you get a key to the lake storage container).  Occasional spearfishing / freediving trips.  great place to learn and push yourself in an environment with a focus on safety.  AIDA 2 star and 3 star courses are also offered from time to time.

Auckland

• Name of club: Bluefins Spearfishing Club
• Location: Auckland
• Contact details:  Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity:  A good group of spearos (relationship with AFC above)

Auckland

• Name of club: Spearfishing FUNdamentals
• Location: Auckland
• Contact details:  Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: Group to coordinate Freediving training targeted at Spearos and Freedivers and to pair people up who are are heading out into the deep blue. Over winter we run regular training on Tuesday at 7:15pm at AUT Millennium. Sessions are $20 for the first session which will includes theory, discussion and of course plenty of pool time doing freediving specifically targeted to Spearfishing activity. 

Whangarei

• Name of club: North End Spearos
• Location: Whangarei
• Contact details:  Facebook | Instagram
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: North End Spearos (NES) is a spearfishing club based out of Whangarei. New to the club scene, NES is looking to expand and strengthen the club’s talent- but at the same time create an epic group of like minded individuals out there to have a bit of fun.

Hamilton

• Name of club: Waikato Dairy Divers
• Location: Hamilton
• Contact details:  Unknown
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: A mix of competitive freediving and spearfishing. Regular pool training and depth too.

Northland

• Name of club: Northland Freediving
  
• Location: Hamilton
• Contact details:  Website | Facebook
  
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: We are a freediving club based in Northland, New Zealand with a strong focus on providing a safe environment for beginners through to elite Freedivers and Spearos.

Palmerston North

• Name of club: Breathtakers Freediving Club
• Location: Palmerston North
• Contact details:  Unknown
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: Freediving focused with a little bit of spearfishing.

Wairarapa Underwater Club

• Name of club: Wairarapa Underwater Club
• Location: Masterton
• Contact details:  Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: Wairarapa Underwater was established in the 1950’s to bring together people with a love of the ocean and its pursuits. We have meetings on the second Wednesday of each month 7.30pm @ Masterton RSA. (Come along if you are interested in joining or have any questions). We hold regular recreational dive and fishing trips with at least 3 planned trips per year and a good number of club days weather permitting.

Wellington

• Name of club: Lazy Seals
• Location: Wellington
• Contact details:  Website | Facebook 
• Summary of club activity: NZs oldest freediving club.  Has some of our top NZ resident freedivers as members (and a couple of good spearos too …).

Wellington

• Name of Club: Ripple Action
• Location: Wellington
• Contact details:  Website | Facebook 
• Summary of club activity: Here at Ripple Action, we are driven by a single goal; to get more people involved safely in the world of Apnea Sports.

South Island Spearfishing Club

• Name of club: South Island spearfishing Club
• Location: South Island
• Contact details:  Website | Facebook 
• Size: 1500+
• Summary of club activity: A representation of South Island spearos, supporting both South Island events and organising teams for North island events. We organise fun club trips, around NZ and local competitions.

South Island

• Name of club: South Island Spearfishing and Freediving Club
• Location: Train in Christchurch
• Contact details:  Facebook
• Size: (how many active members?)
• Summary of club activity: Some hardcore spearos decided to form a club for the South Island and do regular freediving pool training, arrange spearo trips and also spearo competitions.  I know they train regularly in Christchurch and have also possibly been looking at other places like Nelson too.  They’ve got a good focus on both safety and spearing.

Nelson

• Name of club: Nelson Underwater Club
• Contact details:  Facebook | Website
• Size: 70 Members
  
• Summary of club activity: NUC is a club for divers and spearos and encourage safe participation in all underwater activities. We have our own clubrooms with bar, have regular dive trips and run competitions for our members across the top of the South Island.

Upper Clutha Divers & Spearfishing

Facebook group (not currently a club), for people interested diving areas like Jackson Bay etc.

Spearfishing Southland

Facebook group based in Southland with a strong focus on Southland and Fiordland. They also organise an annual comp (damn the weather the last couple of years) with some changes coming to that for 2022 which will make it a bit bigger than previously run comps

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