Dive in Cairns

Nice sandy lagoon with boomies. Great marine life. Small caves, turtles, reef sharks.

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 inside of the…

Turtles, Sharks, Rays...

Great wall with caves

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…

Lovely dive. White-tip sharks and great drop-off.

Reef sharks, eagle rays... very nice dive.

Great corals with Eagle Rays, Reef Sharks

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

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…

Large isolated bommie. Reef sharks, turtles...

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.

Nice reef with sharks and turtles.

Training dive site; mainly for Intro divers and snorkelling.Awesome huge Humpheaded Maori Wrasse called Wally - very friendly & loves divers!!!

White tip reef sharks, silvertip and grey reef shark, potato cod, morays

Grey Reef Sharks, barracuda

Small isolated reef; great wall; pelagics.

large coral bommie with lot of hard and soft corals.

A true shark dive: Grey Sharks, Whitetip reef Sharks, Tiger Sharks and even Hammerhead Sharks.

Great wall with gorgonians, sea whips... There are numerous caves into the wall.

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…

A 30m in diameter pinnacle with barracudas, rays and sharks.

Fantastic wall dive.

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.

very nice drop-off with a lot of gorgonians.

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…

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…

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…