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The annual Live Ocean Winter Dip is back!
Take a dip in the moana wherever you are on or around World Ocean Day, 8 June.
This year, we’re celebrating Jono Ridler’s Swim4TheOcean efforts and supporting the call for an end to bottom trawling.
Take a dip in the moana wherever you are on or around World Ocean Day, Monday, 8 June, and tag us!
As part of this year’s Live Ocean Winter Dip, join Live Ocean and the Black Foils for an all-welcome dip at Takapuna Beach in Auckland at 9.30am, Sunday, 7 June 2026.
This year, we’re celebrating Jono Ridler’s Swim4TheOcean efforts and supporting the call for an end to bottom trawling.
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Key Dates
Take a dip in the moana wherever you are on or around World Ocean Day, 8 June. If you’re Auckland-based, join us and the Black Foils at the in-person Group Dip. This year, we’re celebrating Jono Ridler’s Swim4TheOcean efforts and supporting the call for an end to bottom trawling.
7 JUNE
Group Dip: Supercharged by the Black Foils
Public In-Person Event, 9.30am
Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
8 JUN
World Ocean Day
Public Event
Frequently Asked Questions
About The Live Ocean Winter Dip
Who can get involved?
Everyone! Gather your friends and whānau and head down to your local beach to take a dip in the moana, on or around World Ocean Day (8 June).
This year, we’re also partnering with the Black Foils to bring you an all-welcome Group Dip in Takapuna, Auckland on the eve of World Ocean Day.
Take a photo or video of your dip and share it with us by tagging @itsliveocean.
Where is it?
Your favourite swimming spot. If the beach is too far away, lakes and rivers are great too as they all reach the ocean eventually.
Why?
The Live Ocean Winter Dip has become an annual ritual and challenge for our ocean community, to get out and celebrate our love for the moana.
This year, we’re celebrating Jono Ridler’s Swim4TheOcean efforts and supporting the call for an end to bottom trawling.
ABOUT SWIM4THEOCEAN
What was Swim4TheOcean?
Beginning on 5 January 2026, ultramarathon swimmer Jono Ridler swam the entire east coast of the North Island, from Waikuku Beach North Cape to Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (arriving on 4 April), to ignite New Zealanders in the race for a healthy ocean and calling for an end to bottom trawling. The mission took 90 days.
73,647 people signed the call for action and this was delivered to decision-makers in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
What is bottom trawling?
Bottom trawling drags heavy weighted nets across the seafloor – and destroys habitat, biodiversity and releases stored carbon. The first cab off the rank would be ending bottom trawling on our most critically important underwater spaces and the seamounts (sea mountains) that underpin the health of the ocean. Science is very clear – there is massive damage to these areas.
Why bottom trawling in particular?
Aotearoa is home to one of the largest and most special ocean spaces on the planet. That’s a privilege and a responsibility. Our ocean is under huge strain, but we can choose to protect it. Moving away from bottom trawling is one of the most urgent actions we can take right now.
What work has happened since the swim?
Jono Ridler and Blair Tuke carried the petition with 73,647 signatures directly to Parliament and political leaders.
Throughout the day, meetings and conversations were held with political leaders and MPs from across the spectrum, including Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, the Hon. Shane Jones, Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, the Hon. Tama Potaka, Minister for Conservation and representatives of the Labour Party, Greens and ACT.
The petition handover was an important milestone, but it is not the end of the campaign. The focus now is turning momentum into long-term action.
Live Ocean and Jono Ridler will continue engaging with political leaders and officials, including preparing a formal written submission as part of the petition process through Parliament.
