Best Dive Sites
#10 Channel Marker
By boat - All divers
Seals frequent the #10 marker makes an interesting dive
5 Mile Reef
By boat - All divers
Abington Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
wall & cave diving
Agincourt Reef
By boat - All divers
Agincourt Reef is a series of many smaller reefs. It has at least 16 different dive sites including; Point Break, Three Sisters, Horseshoe Reef and the Fish Bowl. Range of dives incl. wall, drift, etc.Pieces of a Taiwanese wreck are featured at The Wreck; Giant clams and Maori wrasse appear at all…
Agincourt Reef - Nursery Bommie
By boat - All divers
Abbundance of life on the pinnacle. Usually circling are some of the large fish including trevalley, barracuda and a few pelagics. Closer to the bommie you will fins loads of yellow lined snapper, anthea's, chromis etc as well as sweet-lips and numerous lion fish. Towards the top of the bommie you…
Alkimos Wreck
From shore - All divers
Anchor Bommies
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Manta Rays!
Anzac Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Several reefs with coral gardens, wallas, sharks, turtles...
Apex club
From shore - All divers
Bait Reef
by boat - all levels
Bait Reef is located on the Outer Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday Island Chain. It is one of the most pristine scuba diving locations in the world and benefits from protection under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
A perfect site for photography because of the depth and variety of aquatic…
Bait Reef- Manta Ray Drop Off
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
Manta Ray Drop Off, in the Whitsundays on the Great Barrier Reef, boasts spectacular underwater cliffs and a plunging wall that drops off to 30 metres. The wall is covered with gorgonians, soft coral trees, sponges and sea whips. The Manta Ray Drop Off site is great for snorkelling as well as…
Balmoral Baths
From shore - All divers
Lots of macro life living on the nets, although very few sea horses left(if any - possibly poached for the aquarium industry? Some schools of bream frequent this area. Watch out for children jumping off the wharf on summer weekends.
Bare Island
By boat & from shore - All divers
Perfect dive site for for either day or night diving, in almost all weather!
Barracuda Pass
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Barren & Child Islands
by boat - all levels
Seven miles east of Great Keppel Island are Barren & Child Islands. Diving these islands allows us to visit numerous sites ranging from 30m (100ft) off Child, to a very easy but extremely pretty area with depths of 6 - 9m (20 - 30ft) known as One Bum Beach.A drift dive in the passage between and…
Bass & Flinders
From shore - All divers
You can start diving here and drift (at high tide) to Oak Park.
Bell park
From shore - All divers
Dive trails joined by local dive club by ropes. several boat hulls and 2 aircraft that can be dived into 30ft long . lots of fish snapper (juvenile) sambos, and seahorses on the ropes, popular with dive courses , lots to explore and also very good at night.
sometimes can be very silty…
Beware Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Bicton Baths
From shore - All divers
Big Seal Rock - The Cavern
By boat - All divers
This is a unique dive site to meet and photograph Grey Nurse Sharks (at least 60 grey nurses)!
The site is very controlled; no more than 6 divers at a time in the gutter, close together to not disturb the sharks.
Big Seal Rock - The Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great wall dive. Soft corals on the wall and nice coral garden.
Bird Island & Langford Reef
by boat - all levels
Bird Island & Langford Reef is located between Hayman and Hook Islands. With protection from traditional swell, it makes for an idealic anchorage for day time and overnight. At the right tides, the beach spit that arrives from under the water is pristine for a day time walk and the surrounding…
Black Rock - Southern side
by boat - all levels
The starkness of these two rocks above the surface gives no indication of the beautiful coral garden below. The two rocks are situated off Smoky Cape beach which sweeps southwards from Smoky Cape Lighthouse towards Hat Head in the south. Though there are two rocks, the surge in the gutter between…
Black Rock - Northern side
By boat - All divers
The starkness of these two rocks above the surface gives no indication of the beautiful coral garden below. The two rocks are situated off Smoky Cape beach which sweeps southwards from Smoky Cape Lighthouse towards Hat Head in the south. Though there are two rocks, the surge in the gutter between…
Blairgowrie Pier
From shore - All divers
Lot of sponges on the pylons.
Bligh Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great wall with small caves, nice coral gardens
Blow Hole
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
A great cavern with two entrances:
- One on the top of the reef at 15m, just a short distance from the mooring
- The main entrance is on the reef wall at around 20 m
Blue Pearl Bay
By boat - All divers
Blue Pearl Bay is one of the more frequently used dive locations in the Whitsundays. Located on the North West corner of Hayman Island, its protected from the frequent South East Winds. Located at the North of the island group means that it receives cleaner water "first" on the incoming tides, for…
Blue Pools
By boat & from shore - All divers
The Blue pools are part of what is like a natural swimming pool, which gives and easy and relaxing dive. Great fish life, with angelfish being very common - the opportunitis for photography are excelent; also batfish, lionfish, gropers and coral trout. Loved it and just wish I was back there now…
Boarfish Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Set of caves, drop offs and overhangs.
Boarfish Reef Bottle Drift
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great for finding old bottles
Boat Rock
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Cruise along a huge wall, before you arrive at the end. Wait there for a bit to watch the Eagle Rays come in and just hover out off the wall a bit in the open. Awesome dive, but careful against the current back to the mooring line
Bowen Island
By boat - All divers
Bowl Reef
By boat - All divers
Eagle Rays and reef sharks.
Boy in the boat reef
From shore - All divers
Boyinaboat reef
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
Very nice peaceful summer dive, recommended for beginners because of its ease of access. as mentioned before there needs to be little or no swell and low winds for a few days before hand as the vis can get quite bad. there is a resident white barred boxfish called phill who is quite friendly and is…
Brighton Pier
From shore - All divers
Broken Bottom
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Visibly is good, but be aware that the lack of distinctive features make it easy to get lost.
A common training dive.
Broken Patches
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Bullrock Beach
From shore - All divers
Bunker bay
From shore - CMAS * / OW
dive site itself is great, lots to see and gets quite deep, depth adds a feel to this site that isn't easily replicated. the reef is a mix of limestone outcrops and massive( like 10m high massive) boulders that look really cool in pictures. great whites have been spoted here on occasion but i think…
Bushrangers Bay
From shore - All divers
Busselton Jetty
From shore - All divers
Butterfly Bay
By boat - All divers
Butterfly Bay is one of the most spectacular bays in the Whitsundays. Carving deep into Hook Island, the high hillsides provide a stunning backdrop and safe anchorage.Butterfly Bay is often under-rated as a dive location, while providing an excellent protected stop over for marine craft in the…
Camp Cove
From shore - All divers
Camp Cove is a very accessible dive. During hight tide the visablity is great. During Change of tides the slit bottom causes the vis to drop.
Cape Schank
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Castle Rock
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Castle Rock is basically a square lump of rock, about the size of a football field, sitting alone in an area with a limestone and sand bottom. The top of the rock is at 12 m (40 ft) and usually the shot line is dropped right on top to allow divers to adjust their gear before "plunging" over the…
Castles
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Catalina #1
By boat - All divers
One of the 5 PBY Catalina flying boats from WWII.
Catalina #2
By boat - CMAS * / OW
One of the 5 PBY Catalina flying boats from WWII.
Catalina #3
By boat - CMAS * / OW
One of the 5 PBY Catalina flying boats from WWII.
Catalina #4
By boat - CMAS * / OW
One of the 5 PBY Catalina flying boats from WWII.
Catalina #5
By boat - CMAS * / OW
One of the 5 PBY Catalina flying boats from WWII.
Cataran Bay- Border Island
by boat - all levels
Cataran Bay is a North facing bay on the small outer island of the appropriately named Border Island. An outer island of the Whitsunday island group, Border Island is a frequently used stop over on the way to or from Whitehaven Beach. Its a fully protected Green Zone, which has made the vast variety…
Catch Bag Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Drift dive along a kelp forest and broken sandstone reef. Schools of large yellow tail kingfish during summer.
Cathedral Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Eagle Rays, Mantas, Grey Reef Sharks...
Cathie Wall
By boat - All divers
Cathie Wall is a rock wall that comes from a depth of 20 meters and tops is 8m. Coved in hard and soft corals of all types making it the best macro dive in the area.
Challenger Bay
By boat - All divers
Chicken Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Chilcot Islet
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
China Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
This is a more advanced dive due to the depth at the base of China Wall, although divers will still have a very enjoyable dive in the shallower parts. The outstanding feature is a tall vertical granite outcrop with a 2 metre wide swim-through at the top. The general terrain is covered with a…
Clifton Gardens
From shore - All divers
The shark net has a colony of seahorses. There are also soft corals and sponges. Watch out for fishing hooks and rods.
Cochrane Artificial Reef
by boat - all levels
The reef site is 2.5 nautical miles off the coast and is 800 metres by 400 metres in size. New fish attracting devices are being located there regularly.This is a blue water dive, it's 50 metre long, 350 tonne dredge.You an find two Mohawk Aircraft, and a Beechcraft Aircraft, and many other…
Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The Cod Grounds is a massive reef area off Point Perpendicular.
The main pinnacle comes up to 18 m. One side of the pinnacle drops to 26 m and the other around 32 m.
With Grey Nurse sharks on it all year round and attracts large schools of jew fish and king fish.
Combined with some of the best…
Cod Hole
By boat - All divers
14°39.920S 145°37.500E. North end of Ribbon Reef 'Personal experiences from Peter Stone, author “Diving Australia”'
'What an experience, my first visit to the famous Cod Hole '
'We could see the huge Potatoe Cod lazily cruising near the bottom. Although we were on the…
Coffs Harbour- Split solitary island - id: 26826
By boat - All divers
Comboyuro Drop off
by boat - all levels
A succession of large boulders, sheer walls, ledges and shallow caves can be found on this excellent drift dive site. This is an adventurous 'what's next' type of dive that usually provides an element of the unexpected - sharks, rays, big fish, turtles or sometimes a dugong.
Cook Island
By boat - All divers
Coral Bay
From shore - All divers
Coral Gardens
By boat - All divers
Very nice Staghorn and Branching corals.
Cowrie Island
From shore - All divers
Crocodile Head
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
One of the best deep dive. Take care of the current!
Crystal Cascades
From shore - All divers
Curtin Wrecks
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Sheltered inside Moreton Island this fascinating dive site now comprises over 30 wrecks ranging from barges, yachts, tugs, pontoons and ferries right through to an old Brisbane tram. These have all been sunk since 1968 to now form a huge artificial reef which is the adopted home for some…
Dalmeny Boat Ramp
From shore - All divers
Kelp beds, gorgonian fans, crustaceans, sponges and a variety of fish life.
Dart Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Davies Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Denham Jetty
From shore - All divers
Depot Beach
From shore - All divers
Diamond Bay
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
diamond island kelp forests
From shore - All divers
this is an excelent dive site countless amount of abolone excelent kelp forests and magnificent visuability.
Diamond Islets
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Several islets and pinnacles. Eagle Rays, stingrays and turtles are often seen.
Diane Bank
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Turtles, Sharks, Rays...
Dragon's Lair
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Drum and Drumsticks
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
rocky reef
Drummond Cove
From shore - All divers
East point bombies
By boat - Don't know
A large rock shelf leads to coral bombies appoximately 50m of east point cliffs
Need good neap tides due to the massive tidal range of Darwin
lots of small clown fish
Edith Breakers
By boat & from shore - All divers
Excellent dive with the occasional grey nurse, and with the greatest number of bright and colour fish i have ever seen outside of a tropical region.
Edithburgh Jetty
From shore - All divers
Egg Rock
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
Australia's Best Kept Secret!! - Egg Rock a site of world class diving. It is a Marine National Park ''B'' Zone which means that these islands are totally protected. This location is look and photograph only, and of undisturbed beauty, with wall dives to 30m (100ft) on the seaward side.Words just…
Eliza Ramsden
By boat - CMAS * / OW
46m long iron barque built in 1874. The bow is great.
Escape Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Ewans Ponds
From shore - All divers
Exmouth Gulf
By boat & from shore - All divers
lots of big fish and great coral not many wave to push you a riund great for all ages.
Fairlight
From shore - All divers
Fairy Bower
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Shallow, easy dive to navigate. Head straight into the water and follow the reek either left or right and turn around once you're halfway through your air.
Lots of things to see like eels, occys and nudi's. Highlight here is if you get to catch a glimpse of the dusky whalers. GREAT night dive!
Fifth Point
By boat - All divers
pristine coral
Fingal Head
From shore - All divers
Nice sponge garden.
Fish Rock - Aquarium
by boat - all levels
The Aquarium at Fish Rock is situated at the south western corner of Fish Rock close by to the Shallow Entrance to Fish Rock Cave and leads into the main Shark Gutter.This dive site is a very popular choice for all divers from beginners to experienced due to the amazing abundance and diversity of…
Fish Rock - Shark Gutters
by boat - all levels
Located on the southern side of Fish Rock are the Shark Gutters. Three massive gutters which shelve to a depth of 16 metres and descend to a depth of 35 metres.Grey Nurse sharks are found here during most of the year, with large numbers being sighted from early May through to August. These majestic…
Fish Rock - The Boomies
by boat - all levels
The Bommies are situated on the SE corner of Fish Rock at the bottom of the gutter which leads to the deep entrance of Fish Rock Cave (max 32 metres). This dive can be experienced in a number of different ways depending on the dive plan - a square profile plan will allow greater time at the Bommies…
Fish Rock - The Cave
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
This is known to be one of the top 10 dive sites of Australia. This dive starts at 24m deep on the Southeastern side where there is a cave entrance. The cave enter the rock and runs for about 15 metres then rises vertically into a chimney where torches are needed. Often Wobbegongs and Crayfish are…
Fish Rock - The Wall
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
This 40 metre wall features spectacular sponge growth, giant Queensland Groper, giant Black Cod, enormous schools of fish including pelagics, cruising whalers and hidden caves, as well as the usual Fish Rock selection of tropical, sub tropical and temperate marine life! This is a site for the…
Fisherman's Beach
From shore - All divers
Series of boulders and slabs.
Fishermans Bay
From shore - All divers
This site is a bit of a labarynth with several small islands dotting the bay, the site is shallow in most parts. There is an huge old anchor in the gutters out amongst the furthest islands. Not sure if this is part of a scattered larger wreck or just a random peice.
Flat Rock
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Many different sites around Flat Rock & Little Flat Rock, usually catering for most experience levels.
Flat Rock
From shore - All divers
Flinders Pier
From shore - All divers
Great sealife with a lot of Invertebrates
Flinders Reef
By boat - All divers
This site is a marine park with no fishing.
The Reef is in great condition with only a small part that has been over dived (mooring #1 & 2), But even here there is still a lot to see.
This site is great diving for all levels with a little something for every one.
Night diving here is up…
Flora Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great wall with caves
Fly Point
From shore - All divers
A very popular dive site. Dive at slack tide!
Flynn Reef - Coral Garden
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Flynn Reef - Gordon's mooring
By boat - All divers
Gordon's Mooring has some great swim-throughs and overhangs amongst the variety of smaller bommies. It is very popular with photographers as it boasts a wide range of corals and marine life with plenty of sunlight. Deeper areas of the site provide a stunning blue backdrop for photos. Highlights…
Flynn Reef - Three Sisters
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Lovely dive. White-tip sharks and great drop-off.
Flynn Reef - Tracey's Bommie
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Reef sharks, eagle rays... very nice dive.
Foggy Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Bottom: chasms, ledges and caves with kelp on top.
Fortesque Bay Kelp Forest
From shore - All divers
Franklin Point
From shore - All divers
Frankston Pier
From shore - All divers
Frankston Reef
From shore - All divers
Fremantle North mole
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
Very nice sponge life, look under the ledges for schooling bullseye, squid, octopuses, eels, boxfish and of course the elusive western blue devil are all highlights of this dive. very enjoyable dive and best in the evening around 4 o'clock in the summer. Good for crayfishing.
Gary's Lagoon
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Gary's Lagoon is well protected, making it a great site for snorkellers and beginner divers. The coral cover is excellent and the lagoon makes for easy diving before venturing into deeper water just outside the entrance. The lagoon is home to all sorts of tropical marine life including large soft…
Glenelg Barge
By boat - CMAS * / OW
The Barge is the sister sip to the Dredge, and used to carry sand before being sunk as a dive wreck.
The deck is only 12m or so, and the bottom is about 18m. Typically there will be schools of fish, crabs, sea cucumbers. Wreck penetration is not recommended as there is lots of piping.
Gordon's Bay Clovelly
From shore - All divers
Enter water at end of path, swim out a few meters and find chain, follow the chain to the wall.
Gorgonia Hole
By boat - All divers
Mantas, Reef Sharks and Turtles
Gothenburg Wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Gothenburg Wreck is a 60m steel steamer. It sank in 1875.
Great Keppel Island
by boat - all levels
A well sheltered bay located on the North East point of Great Keppel serves as an excellent site accessible in adverse conditions. Great for such dives as Night Diving and Drift Diving. Big Peninsula has a horse shoe shape beach with golden sands and coral gardens, which is a popular location to…
Green Island
By boat - All divers
Green Island is situated just north of Smoky Cape Lighthouse (south of Gap Beach in Hat Head National Park) and can easily be seen from the Lighthouse car park looking north. The island is only a little way off the shoreline - unfortunately difficult access from the mainland means the dive site is…
Green Island
From shore - All divers
Green Island - New York
By boat - All divers
H.M.A.S. Swan
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Awesom wreck dive on a custom sunk (1997) Australian navy Destroyer Escort, which stands with its keel at 30 m on a sandy bottom.
It has been made diver safe, so knock yourself out with lots of cool swimthroughs on a BIG, INTACT, NON DEEP warship - great fun :-)
Most of the ship is now covered in…
Halifax Park
From shore - All divers
This is probably the best shore dive of the NSW. During summer, the dive site is very crowded.
The marine life is incredible here. The best is probably the huge amount of sea slugs! A must for macro-photographers.
Harbord
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Hastings Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Hendersen Island
From shore - All divers
Henderson's Rock
by boat - all levels
A relatively unexplored granite outcrop with large caves, and overhangs and carpeted with 1 metre strands of golden coloured kelp. This is one of our furthest dive sites and due to its exposed location it is rarely dived during the summer south easterlies. Brilliant for underwater photography (wide…
Herald Cays
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great corals with Eagle Rays, Reef Sharks
Herald Surprise
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Hillarys North Wall
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
nice and easy dive, you can enter at the end of the mole and just use the incoming tide to move you along. like all walls there isnt an abundance of fish visible but upon closer inspection they are everywhere. good for crays towards the end of the season!( make sure they are a legal size!!) small…
HMAS Brisbane
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
"The second HMAS Brisbane (D-41) was a Perth class guided missile destroyer laid down by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company at Bay City, Michigan, USA, on 15 February 1965, launched on 5 May 1966, and commissioned on 16 December 1967. She was christened by the wife of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, who…
HMAS Cerebrus Wreck
From shore - All divers
HMAS J1 Submarine
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
"HMS J1 later HMAS J1 was a Royal Navy J class submarine built by HM Dockyard at Portsmouth in Hampshire and launched on 6 November 1915.
J1 operated in patrols in the North Sea. In November 1916 a German force made up of half a destroyer flotilla, three dreadnoughts and a battlecruiser set out…
HMAS J2 Submarine
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
130 Foot Sub scuttled by explosives June 1st, 1926.
HMAS J3 Submarine
By boat - All divers
"HMAS J3 formerly HMS J3 was a J class submarine built for the Royal Navy by HM Dockyard at Pembroke in Wales and launched on 4 December 1915, was transferred to Australia on 25 March 1919 and operated out of Geelong in Victoria, paid off on 12 July 1922, was sold in April 1924 and sunk in 1926"…
HMAS J4 Submarine
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
"HMAS J4 was a J class submarine built by HM Dockyard at Pembroke in Wales and launched on 2 February 1916, was transferred to Australia on 25 March 1919 and operated out of Geelong in Victoria, paid off on 12 July 1922, was sold on 26 February 1924 but sank at her moorings at Williamstown on 10…
HMAS J5 Submarine
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
"HMAS J5 was formerly HMS J5 [1], a First World War J class submarine built for the Royal Navy by HM Dockyard at Devonport in Plymouth.
The J's were three-screw diesel electric submarines of some 1,800 tons armed with 6 torpedo tubes, two of these in the beam position, and a 4-inch gun. They were…
HMS Pandora
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Adams and Barnard at Deptford, and launched on 17 May 1779. She was deployed in North American waters during the American Revolutionary War but was put 'in ordinary' (mothballed) after 1783.
When the news of the mutiny on the Bounty…
Holmes Reef
By boat - All divers
Hyams Beach
From shore - All divers
Inscription point
By boat & from shore - All divers
It's a very good place to meet seadragons!
Jackson Rocks
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Jetty #1
From shore - All divers
Julain Rocks - Cod Hole
By boat - CMAS * / OW
The Cod Hole is an underwater swimthrough about 30 metres from the north eastern tip of the rocks. The Cod Hole opens up at about 15 metres with an entrance about 4 metres by 5 metres, and slopes downward and away to the open sea to a depth of 21 metres.It is the haunt of big moray eels, wobbegongs,…
Julian Rock- Split Bommie
by boat - all levels
Situated just north of the Nursery. This site offers a range of large scattered bommies, one of which appears to be split down the middle. You will find a crevice here, usually filled with bullseyes, often concealing a large wobbegong or turtle. The depth here is 15 metres but heading north-west…
Julian Rocks - Hugos Trench
By boat - All divers
According to a story from the Bundjalung people, a jealous husband threw his spear at the canoe of his wife and her lover. The canoe broke in two and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Only the back and the front of the boat stuck out of the water.The depth range for this dive is from 12 metres to 18…
Julian Rocks - The Cray Cave
By boat - CMAS * / OW
The Cray Cave is located on the exposed south-east end of Julian Rocks. As the name suggests there is a small cave or swimthrough. The area is a mass of huge rock outcrops. You will encounter grey nurse sharks, cod, turtles and rays. Black coral trees line the sheer walls of Julian Rocks to the…
Julian Rocks - The Nursery
By boat - All divers
On the sheltered western side of the rock, The Nursery offers a shallow dive from 5 metres to 12 metres. The reef fish here are prolific. In this general area, in about 8 metres of water, lies the anchor and chain from an old sailing ship - The Volunteer - which was wrecked off Tallow Beach, south…
Julian Rocks- The Needles
by boat - all levels
On the south-west tip of Julian Rocks, the Needles are large bommies that come close to the surface. Current here often brings with it schools of large and small fish, and at some times during the year, huge rays. When Julian Rocks is visited by the Leopard Sharks, they are often found at…
Keeper Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Enjoy diving or snorkeling on some of the most pristine reefs within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Visit Keeper Reef, northeast of Townsville and explore the myriad of gullies and caves that this reef is famous for. Keeper Reef is an ideal location for certified divers, the novice diver or…
Kelso Reef
By boat - All divers
Great corlas & Snorkelling.
Kiama blowhole
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Kingston Reefs
By boat - All divers
Knuckle Reef
By boat - All divers
Lady Bowen Wreck
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
The ultimate Great Barrier Reef scuba dive adventure - the Lady Bowen Wreck is a 220ft schooner now over 100 years old. A converted paddle steamer, she hit reef approximately 30 miles from where she eventually sank, no casualties.The Lady Bowen now rests is 34 metres and has become a reef in itself…
Lady Elizabeth Wreck
By boat - All divers
Wooden barque 658 tons. From Fremantle for Shanghai, one life lost. Wreck lies on a sandy bottom in Bickley Bay with the bow wedged into a reef in about ten metres with a portion of her hull and ribs exposed. Some artefacts remain.
LADY MUSGRAVE ISLAND
Live a Board - easy
Great reef diving on the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef
Ladys Reef
From shore - All divers
Lady Reef is a small, tennis court size reef off the Front Beach in South West Rocks. This is a great spot for a shore dive, for night dives and also for beginners. Expect to see moray eels, catfish, feather stars, resident fish including puffers, soft corals and sponges and possibly a juvenile …
Lancelin Reef
From shore - All divers
Latitude Reef
By boat - All divers
Leah Lumps
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Set off two bonniey side by side, comming out off 42m up to 30. With vertical sides lots off narrow gutters to atract all type off fish life.
Top off rocks coved in corals and fish life.
Leather Jacket Alley
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Leather Jacket Alley is similar to Broken Bottom. Apparently there are naturally formed gutters, but visually is similar to other SA sites. There are a number of different types of fish that come here however, including the Leather Jacket the site is named for.
Lighthouse Bay
By boat - CMAS * / OW
well, we couldn¥t see a lot. easy sandy slope. maybe some snakes, maybe some sharks. they promise manta rays.....if it¥s the season of course. quite expansive stuff.
Lighthouse Bommie
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Manta Rays, Moray Eels, Schooling Barracuda, White Tip Reef Sharks...
Lighthouse Reef
From shore - All divers
Lithou Reefs
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Reef Sharks, Green Turtles, Stingrays, Eagle Rays...
Litte Armstrong Bay
From shore - All divers
Little Broadhurst Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Little Island
By boat - All divers
a good spot for crays,usaully toward the end of the season. The occasional due fish hangs around in the deeper caves. As the name suggests male australian sealions hang around on the island and the sorrounding waters, do NOT touch them, not only are they protected but they can get very violent when…
Little Manly Cove
From shore - All divers
Good alternative choice if the sea is too rough at Shelley Beach
Lobster Pot
By boat & from shore - All divers
Lonsdale Arches
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Lonsdale Reef
From shore - All divers
Many wrecks. Only dive at slack tide
Lonsdale Wall
By boat - All divers
The top of the wall starts at 13 metres deep and drops of to 90 metres in some parts. This is a slack water dive.
Lotties Lagoon
By boat - All divers
Lotties's Lagoon consisted of a sandy bottom with various coral pillars and bommie's scattered around.
Low Isles
By boat - All divers
Luncheon Bay
By boat - All divers
Luncheon bay is a very popular dive location with overnight charter boats operating in the Whitsundays. There is often great visibility and the coral reefs here are completely protcted ensuring huge quantities of fish life and amazing coral formations.The coral formations at Luncheon bay form many…
Macedon & Denton Hlomes Wreck
By boat - All divers
Mackerel bay
By boat - All divers
Magdelaine Cays
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Magic Point
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Man & Wife Rocks
by boat - all levels
Man & Wife located between Outer Rock and Great Keppel Island, features a plateau near the island that is around 6 - 8m (20 - 27ft) in depth. This than drops off to a depth of 18m (60ft) around most of the island. 25m (80ft) is the maximum depth in this area.With good coral in and around 10m…
Manly Bombie
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Manta Ray Bommie
By boat - All divers
Done as a ferry and bus trip to North Stradbroke Island, and dived from a small boat. This is the place to go if you missed seeing a manta at Flinders. Shallow dives to 10 metres with mantas (in the summer months) Leopard sharks and shovel-nosed rays. Very weather dependent dive site.Manta season…
Manta Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Drift dive along the wall: Grey and Whitetip reef sharks, Mantas...
Mantaray bay
By boat - All divers
Mantaray Bay is located at the northern most tip of Hook Island and is in a 'No Fishing one'. The end result is that this section of Hook Island has spectacular corals and fish life. Visibility is often exceptional and it's a very popular snorkel site and occasional dive site for those that make the…
Mantis Reef - Martin`s Mecca
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Good pinnacles covered with hard corals.
Mantis Reef - North Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Grey and Whitetip Sharks and Manta Rays.
Mantis Reef - Rainbow Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Good place to meet pelagics and reef sharks
Marchart
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Marchart is an artificial reef site; an intact sunken oil survey vessel (steel hulled) with lot of marine life.
Mermaid Reef
By boat - All divers
Mermaid Reef is an area of reef with neuromas pinnacles, gutters and bommies.
Sites ranges from 12m - 30m and attracts grey nurse, whaler sharks. With a bottom of Large Gorgonian fans, sea spiders it attacks large school of bait fish, sting rays, morays ells.
Mettams Pool
From shore - All divers
This pool is a great place for family, first time snorkelled or for introducing children to snorkelling. There is also an access for the disabled.
Michaelmas Reef
By boat - All divers
Milln Reef - Petaj
By boat - All divers
Home to resident sea turtles and white tipped reef sharks, Petaj is an exciting site with some great swim-throughs. The wall of the main 'bommie' is an excellent place to search for tiny, yet colourful nudibranchs - a delight for photographers
Milln Reef - Rainbow
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Milln Reef - Swimming Pools 1
By boat - All divers
A relaxing dive suitable for beginners and intermediate divers, popular for its abundance of fish life in the shallows. A dive amongst the coral outcrops and small 'bommies' over a sandy seabed. Average dive depth is about 10 metres. This is an excellent night dive location with sleeping turtles and…
Milln Reef - The Whale
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Large isolated bommie. Reef sharks, turtles...
Milln Reef -Three sisters
by boat - all levels
Three Sisters are a series of three large bommies lined up at the back of MillnReef. The deepest rises about 33m off the sand and within a metre of the surface. If there's a current start your first dive on the deepest bommie, see a giant school of fusiliers, various snapper and chub. As you go down…
Mobula Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Good drift dive
Moon Island
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Biggest Tiger Shark breeding site in the world !
Moore Reef
By boat - All divers
This is a large reef rich with life. It offers sheltered coral gardens. Operators work mainly in the back reef area, and all have similar dives.
Moore Reef
From shore - All divers
Mornington Pier
By boat & from shore - All divers
Very good dive site. Rocky shoals along the pier...
Mt Martha Point
From shore - All divers
Mudjimba Island
By boat - All divers
One of the richest undersea dives in Queensland!
Murphy's Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
One of the best dive site of the area.
MV Petrel
From shore - All divers
Myrmidon Reef
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Fantastic coral garden with great sealife.
Mystery Bay
From shore - All divers
Entry at the southern car park at the boat ramp, head north from the ramp approx 30 metres across the sand to the bombies. Resident large common black ray can be seen cruising the bombies. Large kelp beds, gorgonian fans, variety of nudibranchs, crustaceans and a variety of fish life.
Nancy Cove
By boat - All divers
Narooma Wharf
From shore - All divers
Moray Eels, crustaceans and a variety of fish life.
Navy Pier
From shore - All divers
Nepean Bay
By boat - All divers
Nepean Bay is part of the Harold Holt Marine Reserve: it is a look and don't touch zone!
Norman Reef - Bobs Bommie
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Nice reef with sharks and turtles.
Norman Reef - Caves
By boat - All divers
Norman Reef - Clipper
By boat - All divers
Norman Reef - Plate Top
By boat - All divers
Norman Reef - Pontoon
By boat - All divers
Training dive site; mainly for Intro divers and snorkelling.
Awesome huge Humpheaded Maori Wrasse called Wally - very friendly & loves divers!!!
Norman Reef - Troppo's
By boat - All divers
Norman Reef - Turtle Bay
By boat - All divers
North Bondi
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
North East Wall - Gold Coast Seaway
By boat - All divers
North Horn
By boat - CMAS * / OW
White tip reef sharks, silvertip and grey reef shark, potato cod, morays
North Wall
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Grey Reef Sharks, barracuda
Northern Small Detached Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Grey and Whitetip Reef Sharks.
Oak Park
From shore - All divers
Oak Park is one of the most popular dive sites on the Cronulla Peninsula. It's also a great site for night dive.
OLD Faithful
By boat - All divers
OLD Faithful is a rock wall that comes from a depth of 25 meters and tops is 10m With a large cave in the base of the pinnacle around it. It often home to schools of jewfish, pelagic fish, bait fish and even the rear eastern blue devil.
Old Faithful also boasts a large sponge garden that is…
Old Mans Hat
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A fantastic little spot if you have a boat or go with a dive company. On an incoming tide you can get up to 20m visability to see all the wonderful sealife here. Schooling fish can be seen here, nudibranchs apleny, and keep you eyes out for the giant cuttlefish!
On a more recent excursion here we…
Osprey Reef
by boat - all levels
Osprey Reef is frequently visited by long range dive boats out of Cairns and is one of the most interesting of the Coral Sea Reefs. The 27km by 4m atoll shaped reef lies 140km east of Lizard Island and 115km east of the Great Barrier Reef. The depth surrounding the reef is around 2000m. The reef top…
Outer Rock
by boat - all levels
Located eight miles north east of Great Keppel Island, Outer Rock is a large isolated rock rising up to 20 metres. There are four main area's that we dive. On the northern side is a well sheltered bay which gives protection and excellent diving. To the east, a large rock runs northwards starting at…
Outer tube
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Sharks, huge sting ray, moray eel, few corals.
Outter Reef Bommies
By boat - All divers
Pams Point
By boat - All divers
Manta Ray dive and big blue grouper. This is common to drift from Pams Point to Heron Bommie
Patersons Arch
by boat - all levels/ AOWD
The canyons of the Patersons Arch area offer all the varied intertebrate life, great swim-throughs and walls of the caves, but without the rock ceiling. Patersons Arch can be dived by anyone with good diving skills and reasonable buoyancy control, although we do not normally recommend it for novice…
Pearling Grounds
By boat - All divers
Come face to face with large sharks, and wild dolphins
Pellowe Reef - Cucumber Alley
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Small isolated reef; great wall; pelagics.
Penguin Island
By boat & from shore - All divers
Shallow waters off the coast make snorkelling easy. Area is sheltered by the island, reducing (or eliminating waves). Very large shallow area, suitable for beginners in snorkelling.
Piccanninie Ponds
From shore - All divers
Been many years since I had dived here, but you may still need a permit to snorkel and it probably still is rated as a Cave Dive and will require a Cave certification to dive this site.
Pig Island
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Diving is possible all around Pig Island, but the southern side seems to offer the best all round diving. Depths here work down to about 18-25m, with a great sponge garden and a lot of rocky gullies and walls. This area is part of a reef running towards nearby Toothbrush Island. There is a good…
Pixie Gardens
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Pixie Pinnacle
By boat - CMAS * / OW
large coral bommie with lot of hard and soft corals.
Point Cartwright
From shore - All divers
Poor condictions but great for beginers of with the kids snorkling. Only if there is no surf!!
Point King Bottle Drift
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great place to find very old bottles
Point Peron
From shore - All divers
Point Perpendicular
By boat - CMAS * / OW
grey nurse sharks
Porpoise Bay
By boat - All divers
Port Mac Donald Pier
From shore - All divers
Port Noarlunga Reef
From shore - All divers
Portsea Hole
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Portsea Hole - great for first aow dive
Portsea Pier
From shore - All divers
Classic dive site for anyone to practice skills. The bottom is mostly sandy and the pylons are covered in colorful sponges..
Portsea Reef
From shore - All divers
Potato Point
From shore - All divers
Kelp beds, gorgonian fans, crustaceans, sponges and a variety of fish life.
Predators Playgound
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
A true shark dive: Grey Sharks, Whitetip reef Sharks, Tiger Sharks and even Hammerhead Sharks.
Queenscilff Bottle Drift
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Queenscliff Pier
From shore - All divers
Qurantine Station wall
From shore - All divers
Raine Island
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Raine Island hosts a large number of Green Turtles. You may see the Tiger Sharks if you're lucky :)
Rapid Bay Jetty
From shore - All divers
Great opportunity to see Leafy Sea Dragons. Fantasic photography. Schools of fish towards the end of the jetty. Like an underwater forrest.
Ribbon Reef #10 - Cod Hole
By boat - All divers
This dive site is well known for its large potato cods (6-30 kg !). They are feed and so very friendly ;-)
Ribbon Reef #10 - Pixies Pinnacle
By boat - All divers
Pixies Pinnacle is a great dive site for photographers. A large coral bommie with small caves. One of the best spot of the GBR ever !
Rock Arch
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great wall with gorgonians, sea whips... There are numerous caves into the wall.
Rocky Bay
By boat - All divers
Rosebud Pier
From shore - All divers
Rotomahana Wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Rowley Shoals Marine Park
by boat -
The Rowley Shoals are a chain of coral atolls on the edge of one of the widest continental shelves in the world. The three pear-shaped atolls have shallow lagoons inhabited by corals and abundant marine life. Each atoll covers an area of around 80 to 90 square kilometres. The three shoals are…
Rye Pier
From shore - All divers
Safety Bay
By boat - All divers
Sand Pipe - Gold Coast Seaway
From shore - All divers
Sanko Harvest Wreck
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
The captain of the 33,000-ton bulk cargo ship, Sanko Harvest, would rather forget Valentines Day 1991. While taking a shortcut through the unchartered waters off Esperance, the ship struck a hidden reef and began to take on water. Hopes were high that the vessel and her cargo of phosphate could be…
Saxon reef - Coral Garden
By boat & from shore - All divers
Saxon reef - Twin Peaks
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Nice sandy lagoon with boomies. Great marine life. Small caves, turtles, reef sharks.
Schnapper Point Jetty
From shore - All divers
Scollop Beds
By boat - All divers
GREAT SCOLLOP DIVE
Scuba Zoo
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
A true shark dive: A lot of Whitetip Reef sharks, Grey Reef Sharks and Silvertip Reef Sharks.
Sewage Pipe
By boat & from shore - All divers
An alternative to Halifax Park.
Shag Rock
By boat - All divers
Wobbiegong Sharks, turtles, octopus, tropical fish, sea slugs etc.
Shark City
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The place to meet dozens of sharks: Whitetip, Silvertip, Grey reef sharks...
Shark point
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
This is a classic dive from shore. During summer season, diving is prohibited in Clovelly Pool during between 10am to 4pm. Clovelly Pool is a useful fall-back exit / entry point when seas are rough.
Can be dangerous entry point as you will have to jump into usually large surge. Timing essential.…
Shelly Beach
From shore - All divers
White sand and a natural reef of boulders and rocks. Sea dragons, dusky whalers, small rays... but not much fixed life.
Ship Wreck Bay
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Shiprock
By boat & from shore - All divers
This is a very famous dive of Sydney South. The name comes from the shape of a rock.
Ship Rock can only (except for Kamikazes) be dived for the 1 hour around the peak of high tide (Best is 30 min before, and 30 min after).
This dive has usually got poor vis, and is crowded on weekends. Only…
Shrimp Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Great coral garden with Whitetip Reef Sharks
Slot Cave
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Nice 'cave'. Entrance is approx 16-18 m deep.
Smiths Beach
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
Snapper Point
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Song Saigon
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Artifical reef
South Horne
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
South-West Wall - Gold Coast Seaway
By boat & from shore - All divers
Muck dive area with interesting sea life.
Southern Small Detached Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Fantastic wall ! Eagle Rays, Mantas, Leopard Sharks...
Sponge Gardens
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
the Sponge Garden Drift dive is a must do for the experienced diver. A majestic drift over a diverse collection of large sponges, gorgonians, and sea whips is an excellent way to experience the sea bed devoid of rock structures and coral bombies. The enormity and colours of the sponges and corals in…
Spot X
by boat - all levels
East of Flinders Reef is a huge granite outcrop from about 16m down to 30m. Features red soft corals, black coral, fans and crayfish.
SS Catterthun
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Catterthun sunk 8 August 1895. This 92 meters longe wreck lies upright and fairly intact. There is huge engine just up four or five metres.
SS Coogee
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Coogee is a 67 metres (220 feet) long steamship used to transpost cargo and passengers.
SS Courier
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Courier is a 800 tons steel steamer vessel scuttled in 1928.
SS Kelloe
By boat - CMAS *** / DiveMaster
SS Kelloe was a iron hulled collier. It sunk 12 May 1902. This is a very good deep dive!
SS Macleay Wreck
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Oakland Wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
SS Satara
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Satara is a huge shipwreck. She is 125 metres long and weight 5200 tonnes. SS Satara sunk 20 April 1910.
The wreck lies upright in 44m of water. The stern is on reef and the bow on sand. There are some grey nurse sharks in the area, as well as wobbegongs and schools of red morwong.
SS Tuggerah
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
The SS Tuggerah was a coastal steamer that carried coal to Sydney. It sunk saturday 16 May 1919, with the loss of 6 lives.
SS Tuggerah lyes on its port side, the bow of the wreck is destroyed. The ship mast is lying off to the left hand side of the wreck, quite distinctive. The bow is full of…
SS Undola
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
SS Undola was a small coastal steamer, sunk december 20th, 1919. It lies upright on the bottom, with its bow facing to NE.
SS Woniora
By boat - CMAS *** / DiveMaster
The SS Woniora was a collier. It sunk 28 October 1882.
Vessel size: 42m long x 6m wide, displacement: 226 tons.
It's a deep wreck, ONLY for very experienced diver!
SS Yongala
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
SS Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer, owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company. SS Yongala and her sistership, Grantala, were built in Newcastle upon Tyne, England between 1903 - 1904 Yongala was named after the town Yongala, in South Australia.
En route from Melbourne to Cairns on…
St Kilda Pier
From shore - All divers
Staghorn Banks
By boat - All divers
Great staghorn coral
Star Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Stead Passage
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
A large pinnacle with barracuda, sharks...
Steves Bommie
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Sudburry East Wall
By boat - All divers
Swan River
From shore - All divers
Good crab dive location
Swimming pools
By boat - All divers
A relaxing dive suitable for beginners and intermediate divers, popular for its abundance of fish life in the shallows. A dive amongst the coral outcrops and small 'bommies' over a sandy seabed. Average dive depth is about 10 metres. This is an excellent night dive location with sleeping turtles and…
Tangalooma Wrecks
By boat & from shore - All divers
A shallow dive on partially submerged wrecks. Normally calm but tidal waters sheltered by Moretone Island. Good fish life, excellent for novices and snorkellers.
Tassie Two Wreck
From shore - All divers
Temple of Doom
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A 30m in diameter pinnacle with barracudas, rays and sharks.
Terrigal Haven
From shore - All divers
Good dive site for beginners. Reef is characterised by boulders with gradual descent sloping uniformily down to 12 meters. Plenty of rays (including bull rays), schools of fish, eels, groupers. Watch out for passing boats - surface in the shallows. If you have a boat this area is a good launching…
The Abyss
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Fantastic wall dive.
The Arch
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Best dive of JB; but for advanced divers only.
The Arch
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
The Basin
From shore - All divers
The Canyon
By boat - All divers
The Cathedral
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
great dive located just inside the well known stepping stones. it has a huge (cathedral) opening which narrows slowly as you enter, which leads to a small network of tunnels.
The Chimney
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
A very dificult dive not for the faint hearted..it starts in a shallow 6ft of water with waves often crashing over the surface, so timing is essential. at first you must fight the strong currents till you reach the opening of the chimney shute. Then the current tends to push you down through the…
The Church
By boat - All divers
The Dredge
By boat - CMAS * / OW
This site is generally known just as "The Dredge". It's the sister ship to "The Barge" which is sunk nearby and is an easy swim (star droppers show the way).
This is probably one of the best wrecks available to OW divers in SA. The deck is about 14m, and the sea floor is 20m making is a easy…
the drift
From shore - All divers
the current can get realy strong so before you go check with the ranger on if its ok.
the coral is better father out but only for very good swimmer
The Empire Gladstone
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
Wrecked on the night of September 5th 1950 the ship measured 135 metres long and weighed over 7000 tonnes. She now lies in 10 metres of water just off Merimbula. Though mostly collapsed you are still able to swim through the drive shaft passage and explore around the wreckage which has turned into a…
The Gantry
From shore - All divers
Cuttlefish, occy's, nudibranches, squid etc. An easy and nice dive.
The Gravel Loader
From shore - All divers
The Gutter
From shore - All divers
This is a nice multi level dive with a sponge garden approximately 20 - 30 mters off shore
The Leap
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
This is for experienced divers ONLY. Dive this site on the incoming tide. You have to leap off a rock into the water, but this is not the problem... you have to exit after your dive ;-)Alternatively, you can exit from The Steps, only 100 meters away from The Leap.
The Loader
From shore - All divers
The Pin
By boat - All divers
Lots of fish, turtles, and nudibranchs!
The Pinnicles
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The Quetta Wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
RMS Quetta was a 116 m long passenger liner. She sunk in 1890 and now lies on her port side.
The Seals
By boat - All divers
The most popular dive site at Montague Island. Accessible all year round as it is well protected from prevailing wind and sea conditions. Interact with the friendly seals as they twist and turn to the delight of divers of all skill levels. Don't dive here without a camera. Kelp beds cover large…
The Spit
By boat - All divers
Nice healthy coral reef!
This remote dive site will generally be remembered for the strong swell driven current, which could even be felt at a depth of 15 m.
We saw lots of live, including anenomyfish, scorpionfish, a Muray Eal, and had a long chat with a cool (and nose pierced!) 1? m Potato…
The Stepping Stones
By boat - All divers
Stepping Stones, off Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef, is a series of 18 or more flat-topped coral pinnacles forming "stepping stones" with many interesting channels and caves to explore. Large areas of plate coral with fields of blue staghorn, schools of Batfish, Giant Maori wrasse,…
The Steps
By boat & from shore - All divers
Weedy sea dragons, giant cuttlefish, blue groper, eagle rays, octopus, moray eel, lion fish, Port Jackson shark, sea pen, numb ray, nudibranch, yellowtail, cat fish.
The Valiant
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The Vailant was a tug boat that sunk in 1981. This is ones of Sydneys most recent wrecks.
Vessel size: 22.5m x 5.4 m (72 tons).
The Wreck of SS "Nord"
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD and deep dive specialty
The SS "Nord" was built in 1900. She weighed 1057 tonnes nett and measured 289.4 feet. She was a cargo ship carrying case oil when she sank on November 8th, 1915, after striking a sunken pinnacle near Hippolyte Rock. All her crew survived the wreck. The wreck is situated near a reef in 42 metres of…
The Wreck of the Lively
by boat - cmas**/ AOWD
In the early 1980s, a Broome charter boat operator advised the Western Australian Maritime Museum that he had seen man-made objects lying on top of the Mermaid atoll in the Rowley Shoals at low tide. Maritime archaeologists found two anchors, three and a half metres long, lying together on the reef…
Thetford Reef - Cathedrals
By boat - All divers
This reef offers deep canyons as well as bommies: almost 2km long reef with scattered coral heads. Between the bommies sandy floors are covered with smaller coral patches. Take a long safety sausage as its easy to become disorientated.
Tijou Reef
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Titan Crane
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The Titan was the largest working crane in southern Australia. When being transported up the coast she turned upside down and eventually sunk off Point Perpendicular.
Now Lying on it's side upside down in 40m of water it is getting covered with soft sponges and corals.
Large jewelfish, kingfish…
Transit Wreck
By boat - All divers
Wooden schooner, 124 tons, 88.8 feet long. Voyage from the Cape of Good Hope. There was a suggestion that her master had been careless or had deliberately wrecked the vessel. No lives lost.
Tregrosse Reefs
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Turtles and Tawny Nurse Sharks.
Trigg Point
From shore - All divers
TSS Currajong
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Tweed River
From shore - All divers
Dive at the top of the high tide for a better viz.
Underwater World
From shore - All divers
USAT Meigs
By boat - CMAS * / OW
"The USAT Meigs, a United States Army transport vessel (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the USS Meigs), was sunk in Darwin Harbour during the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on February 19, 1942.
Built San Pedro, California, in 1921 as the West Lewart, the Meigs had a…
USS Peary
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Wangi Wangi Falls Litchfield National Park
From shore - All divers
Watanabe Bommie
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Giant bommies with great corals. Shoals of barracudas, Grey Reef Sharks...
Waterfall Bay Caves & Canyons
by boat - all levels/ AOWD
Geologically, the Tasman Peninsula region is primarily mudstone/sandstone which in some areas has been extensively eroded to offer huge caves, tunnels and canyons, particularly in Waterfall Bay, an area well known for its sea caves. The largest, Cathedral Cave, consists of a massive entrance…
Waterman Beach
From shore - All divers
Wave Break Island - Gold Coast Seaway
By boat - All divers
Dive first Seagrass Bed and go to the Canyon.
Wedge Island
From shore - All divers
Williamstown Beach
From shore -
Willies Islets
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Wistari Reef - Three Rocks
By boat - All divers
Three Rocks is a little sandy bay (7-20m)
Wolf Rock
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Oct-Feb is the best time to see Gray Nurse Sharks, being the mating season (30+ sharks).
During the summer months you can see 50+ gray nurse sharks on a single dive.
You will spend most of your time on the bottom (30+meters) with the sharks at only arms length away.
Lots of BIG stuff to see as…
Wonderland
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
very nice drop-off with a lot of gorgonians.
Woodmans Point Ammunition Jetty
From shore - All divers
Yanchep Beach
From shore - All divers
Yaroomba reef
From shore - CMAS * / OW
dont go out if big waves r breaking because rouge wave will get on the dry roks