

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Whales, Snails and Lobster Tales
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 am (+12:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us to hear pioneering underwater cameraman and documentary maker Andrew Penniket reflect on fifty years of diving adventures across the South Seas.

A former producer and cameraman for Natural History New Zealand, Andrew is the author of Whales, Snails and Lobster Tales – Memoirs of an Underwater Cameraman and has filmed for the BBC and the Discovery Channel.

In this talk he will share some of his favourite images and footage from sites around New Zealand, the wider Pacific, and Antarctica. Hear the stories behind the shots and about the highlights and challenges of filming underwater – sometimes in the dead of night.

This event is part of Wild Dunedin: New Zealand Festival of Nature.

3pm, Tuesday 14 April
Barclay Theatre
Free – Bookings Essential
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dunedin/whales-snails-and-lobster-tales/200029874750714
- **Event Categories**: art, festivals, theatre, literary-art, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://otagomuseum.nz/whats-on/whales-snails-and-lobster-tales?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=dunedin-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Dunedin
- **state**: OT
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Tūhura Otago Museum
- **lat**: -45.865806853734
- **long**: 170.51081306137
- **full address**: Tūhura Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street,Dunedin, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Tūhura Otago Museum (https://allevents.in/org/tūhura-otago-museum/9724251)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 am (+12:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tūhura Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street,Dunedin, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Tūhura Otago Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, festivals, theatre, literary-art, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Whales, Snails and Lobster Tales ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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