Milford Deep Underwater Observatory

The Milford Deep Underwater Observatory is a floating building from which you descend down to a viewing room to observe this unusual underwater world from the middle of the Piopiotahi Marine Reserve.

The beauty of Fiordland on the south west of the South Island of New Zealand is well known. What is not so widely known is that the stunning beauty above the water is also duplicated below the water.

The viewing area incorporates 120mm thick acrylic windows. You can see sea stars climbing the rock face and black coral feeding in front of the windows while being inspected by a variety of fish. You are never sure whether an octopus, a seal or any ocean predator may appear from the unfathomable dark water of the fiord.