Dive Sites Near Gold Coast
9 dive sites in and around Gold Coast, QLD, nearest first, with the depth, skill level and conditions for each one.
Scottish Prince Shipwreck
Gold Coast, QLD
On a calm day off the southern end of Main Beach, a dark scattered shape lies in twelve metres of water about 1.5 kilometres from the surf line: the broken remains of an iron clipper that has been on...
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Wonder Reef
Gold Coast, QLD
The world's first buoyant reef: nine steel sculptures tethered 2.5 km off The Spit, rising from a 30 m seabed to about 8 m below the surface. Dived by permit, on a guided tour or from the bookable public mooring.
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Gold Coast Seaway
Gold Coast, QLD
On the incoming tide at the Gold Coast Seaway, the ocean pushes a clear front of blue water through the channel between South Stradbroke Island and The Spit, and a stretch of artificial seabed...
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Palm Beach Reef
Gold Coast, QLD
The Gold Coast's largest reef system: a rocky reef about 950 by 500 m between Tallebudgera and Currumbin creeks, with around ten named sites from 5 to 25 m, corals, sponges and summer leopard sharks; reached by dive boat from the Gold Coast Seaway (25 to 40 min).
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Kirra Reef
Gold Coast, QLD
A small rocky reef about 500 m off Kirra Beach in 3 to 8 m, buried by sand bypassing in 2007 to 2008 and partly exposed since 2009; seaweed-covered outcrops with big schools of yellowtail scad, reached by a long swim through the surf break or by boat.
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Tweed River
Tweed Heads, NSW
Tidal shore dive on the rock walls at Jack Evans Boat Harbour, Tweed River mouth, 5 to 12 m, known for frogfish and other critters; dive around high tide.
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Cook Island
Tweed Heads, NSW
A marine reserve offering encounters with turtles, nudibranchs, and diverse coral formations.
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Nine Mile Reef
Tweed Heads, NSW
Nine nautical miles off Tweed Heads, where New South Wales meets the Gold Coast, a reef rises from the deep that on its day ranks among the best dives in...
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Fido's Reef
Tweed Heads, NSW
Rocky reef just south of Cook Island off Tweed Heads, 10 to 22 m, covered in corals and sponges, with scattered remains of the Norwegian steamer Fido, wrecked in July 1907. Usually dived as a drift.
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