Wade Thomas Doak QSM (23 February 1940 – 12 September 2019) was a New Zealand marine conservationist, scuba diver, photographer and filmmaker.

[3] He began diving in his teens, and met Kelly Tarlton at the Canterbury Underwater Club.

[4] In the 1960s, Doak moved to Northland, where he first dove around the Poor Knights Islands with Tarlton.

[4] Doak became an acknowledged expert on the marine ecology of the area, and was instrumental in the Poor Knights Islands being made a marine reserve in 1981 and receiving full protection in 1998.

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