Waikaremoana Wreck 1869. In the dark and eerie waters of Lake Waikaremoana in the Te Urewera National Park lies a skeleton of a wreck built for war. In 1869 nearing the end of the New Zealand Wars, the Armed Constabulary sent a force to Lake Waikaremoana in an attempt to quash the Hauhau rebellion led by the Maori chef Te Kooti. Two whale boats were built to launch an attack by water, but by the time they were constructed Te Kooti had fled. To prevent them falling into Maori hands they were scuttled with rocks where the slowly decaying remains of one lies today.

The wreck of the steel screw steamer the Waikare 1910 at Stop Island, Dusky Sound, Fiordland. Underwater Photographs by Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson

The wreck of the SS Elingamite that sunk at West Island in the Three Kings 1902. Underwater Photographs by Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson

The wreck of the Rewa at Moturekareka Island in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand.

Underwater Photographs of the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov a Soviet Union cruise ship that sunk in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand by Underwater Photographer and Photojournalist Richard Robinson.

Underwater Photographs of the Rainbow Warrior by New Zealand Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson specializing in Underwater Photography from the Poor Knights Marine Reserve through the South Pacific

Underwater Photographs of the HMNZS Waikato (F55) wreck by New Zealand Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson.

Underwater Photographs of the HMNZS Canterbury (F421)wreck by New Zealand Photojournalist and Underwater Photographer Richard Robinson.