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The Definitive Map: Navigating the Hubs of Bass Point
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Explore the volcanic basalt of Bass Point, Shellharbour. From the sheltered Gut to the shark filled Bushrangers Bay, discover NSW’s premier shore diving for every skill level.
Streaky Bay Jetty Dive Site Guide | Eyre Peninsula, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A jetty in one of the Eyre Peninsula's most appealing coastal towns, with clear bay water, sea dragons, and the sea lion encounters that the bay's resident p...
Port MacDonnell Breakwater Dive Site Guide | Limestone Coast, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A working fishing port breakwater on South Australia's southernmost coast, with cold Southern Ocean water, diverse encrusting life, and a temperate reef comm...
The Sand-Dwellers of Cabbage Tree Bay: A Deep Dive into the Eastern Fiddler Ray
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Dive into Shelly Beach’s sandy "ecotone" to discover the Eastern Fiddler Ray: a geometric evolutionary marvel and docile resident of Sydney’s thriving Cabbage Tree Bay.
Mudjimba Island (Old Woman Island) Dive Site Guide | Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A protected rocky island reserve off Maroochydore offering accessible reef diving with resident turtles and diverse subtropical marine life.
Thistle Island Wall Dive Site Guide | Spencer Gulf, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A remote island wall dive in southern Spencer Gulf with the best visibility in the gulf system, strong current potential, and a temperate reef community rare...
Weebubbie Cave Dive Site Guide | Nullarbor Plain, WA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
One of the deepest and most extensively explored freshwater cave systems on the Nullarbor Plain, holding world-class visibility and a subterranean environmen...
Port Giles Jetty: Closed to Divers
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Port Giles is a working grain jetty on Yorke Peninsula whose owners now ban diving, fishing and snorkelling. What changed, and where to dive instead.
Moreton Island's China Wall
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Kelp-draped rock, caves and a 2 m swim-through on Moreton Island's exposed eastern side, best in winter for grey nurse sharks and humpback song.
Whyalla Jetty Dive Site Guide | Whyalla, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
An industrial city jetty in upper Spencer Gulf that produces good macro diving with cuttlefish, sea dragons, and nudibranchs, most rewarding when combined w...
Wool Bay Jetty Dive Site Guide | Yorke Peninsula, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A working grain jetty on the southern Yorke Peninsula with the classic SA jetty fauna of sea dragons, cuttlefish, and nudibranchs in a relaxed, beginner-frie...
Second Valley Dive Site Guide | Fleurieu Peninsula, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A sheltered gulf-side bay on the Fleurieu Peninsula with a short jetty, resident sea dragons, clear water, and an old anchor chain dive that doubles as an ex...
Numbray in the Sand: A Shelly Beach Encounter
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Picture this: You’re gliding over the seagrass meadows at Shelly, the morning light filtering through the green water in long, shimmering curtains. You’ve just passed the usual suspects a school of cheeky Yellowfin Bream and maybe that resident Eastern Blue Groper who thinks he’s a Labrador. You move toward the sandy patches where the reef edge peters out. Most divers cruise right over this "was…
The Crystal Cathedral: Diving Clerke Reef Marine Park, WA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
If you were to design the perfect coral atoll in a laboratory, it would look exactly like Clerke Reef.
Shark Cave Dive Site Guide | Rottnest Island, WA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A deep limestone cavern on the outer reef of Rottnest Island where wobbegong and grey nurse sharks rest in numbers, in one of the most atmospheric dives acce...
Long Reef Wall and The Apartments Dive Guide
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A boat dive off Long Reef, also called The Apartments: a wall, boulder caves and The Cathedral swim-through, with pomfret schools and grey nurse sharks.
Boyinaboat Reef Diving Guide Perth
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A vibrant reef sanctuary minutes from shore
Turquoise Bay Dive Site Guide | Exmouth, WA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Consistently ranked among Australia's most beautiful beaches, Turquoise Bay on the Ningaloo coast delivers a drift snorkel and dive along a pristine fringing...
Beautiful Encounter with a Green Turtle
By ScubaDownUnder Team
# The Cheeky Green Turtle of Shelly Beach: A Magical Morning in Manly If you live in Sydney, you know that Sunday mornings are sacred. But for ocean ...
Cherubs Cave Moreton Island Dive Guide
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A kelp-hidden cave 4 km off Moreton Island's ocean side, inside a protected grey nurse shark area: an advanced dive in 14 to 30 m, best in winter.