Dive Sites Near Darwin
7 dive sites in and around Darwin, NT, nearest first, with the depth, skill level and conditions for each one.
Kelat
Darwin, NT
Iron sailing ship built in Glasgow in 1881, ended her working life as a coal hulk in Darwin Harbour and was sunk during the 19 February 1942 raid, the oldest of the harbour's wrecks.
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Darwin Catalinas
Darwin, NT
Cluster of four PBY Catalina flying boats strafed and sunk at their moorings during the 19 February 1942 raid, the shallowest of the Darwin wreck dives.
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British Motorist
Darwin, NT
British tanker sunk in the 19 February 1942 Darwin raid, lying broken in the inner harbour, the most heavily fragmented of the major Darwin Harbour wrecks.
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Darwin Harbour Wrecks
Darwin, NT
The wrecks of the 1942 Darwin air raid, cut down to their lower hulls by salvors in 1959-60, are dived on guided permit trips to sites like the Mauna Loa at 19m.
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SS Zealandia
Darwin, NT
Australian passenger and cargo steamship sunk in the 19 February 1942 Darwin raid, with a long pre-war working life on the Sydney-Wellington route before her requisition for war service.
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USAT Meigs
Darwin, NT
Largest casualty of the 19 February 1942 Darwin raid, the 12,500-ton US Army transport USAT Meigs sits broadly upright on the sand at 28 metres and is the biggest dive-able wreck in Darwin Harbour.
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SS Mauna Loa
Darwin, NT
US merchant cargo ship sunk in the 19 February 1942 Darwin raid, lying close to the USAT Meigs and routinely dived as the second tank of a Meigs trip.
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