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Fly Point & Halifax Park, Port Stephens
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Walk down the steps at Fly Point, swim a couple of hundred metres north, and you drop into one of the richest patches of marine life on the entire New South...
Lord Howe Island & Ball's Pyramid
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Seven hundred kilometres off the New South Wales coast, a crescent of green volcanic peaks rises from deep blue water, ringed by the southernmost coral reef...
Port Noarlunga Reef, Adelaide
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Walk out along the Port Noarlunga jetty, climb down the stairs at the end, and you are standing on the edge of South Australia's most popular dive. A long...
Governor Island Marine Reserve, Bicheno
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Tasmania's east coast keeps its best diving in cold, clear water, and nowhere more so than off Bicheno. A few minutes by boat from the town, the granite...
Ex-HMAS Canberra Wreck, Ocean Grove
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The mooring line drops away into green water, and for the first ten metres there is nothing to see but particles drifting in the gloom. Then a shape...
Steve's Bommie, Ribbon Reefs
By ScubaDownUnder Team
In a reef system the size of a small country, Steve's Bommie is a single coral tower, and yet it ranks among the most beloved dives on the entire Great...
How Much Does Scuba Diving Cost in Australia?
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The full cost of getting into scuba diving and staying active in the sport is one of the questions every prospective diver asks first and most existing divers underestimate. The headline numbers are...
Flinders Reef, Moreton Bay
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Most divers are surprised to learn that Brisbane has a coral reef at all. Five kilometres off the northern tip of Moreton Island, beyond the sand and the...
HMAS Perth Wreck: Albany Dive Guide
By ScubaDownUnder Team
WA's marquee wreck dive: a 134m Royal Australian Navy destroyer scuttled 2001, sitting upright in 25 to 35 metres in King George Sound.
Agincourt Reef, Port Douglas
By ScubaDownUnder Team
For all the Great Barrier Reef's scale, much of its best diving lies a long way offshore. Agincourt Reef is the exception that proves how good the outer...
Houtman Abrolhos Islands Dive Guide
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Australia's coral atoll: 60km off Geraldton, Australian sea lions, the 1629 Batavia wreck, and reef diving only reached by liveaboard.
Bremer Bay: Orcas and South Coast WA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
South coast WA: the world's most reliable orca aggregation site at the Bremer Canyon (Jan-Apr), with granite-headland temperate reef diving inshore.
How to Choose a Dive Computer: A Buyer's Guide for Australian Divers
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The dive computer is the single most important piece of recreational diving equipment after the regulator and the BCD, and it is the one piece of gear most likely to last across decades of diving if...
Broughton Island, Port Stephens
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Half an hour by boat from Nelson Bay, Broughton Island sits off the mouth of Port Stephens like a green fist of rock in the Tasman Sea, and beneath it lies...
Shiprock, Port Hacking
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Shiprock does not look like one of Sydney's best dives. It is a scrap of rocky shoreline at the end of a suburban street, tucked into an estuary, and for...
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
By ScubaDownUnder Team
On Christmas Island, the reef does not so much slope as fall. Swim a few dozen metres out from the shore, cross a band of coral garden, and the bottom drops...
Gordons Bay Underwater Trail, Sydney
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Sydney is full of good shore dives, but only one comes with a map laid out on the seabed. At Gordons Bay, a chain of twenty-five concrete drums runs six...
Pope's Eye, Port Phillip Bay
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Pope's Eye is the dive that history forgot to finish. In the 1880s, engineers began building a ring-shaped island fort in the middle of Port Phillip Bay to...
Scuba Diving FAQs: Quick Answers
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Quick answers to the questions new divers actually ask: depth limits, sharks, flying after diving, costs, medical issues, gear and certifications.
SS Zealandia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
For thirty-two years before the war, the SS Zealandia worked the Sydney to Wellington passenger route as one of the Huddart Parker line's familiar ships, carrying passengers and cargo across the...