Sea change at Kaikoura

17.07.2017

After rising 6m out of the sea in some places we went to find out how the the marine life is doing after the Kaikoura quake.

Just after midnight on 14 November 2016 the Kaikoura coast rose up out of the sea - up to 6 metres in places. How has aquatic life coped with such incredible upheaval? What is the sea of green now carpeting the rocks, and will the reefs ever recover?