Discover Amazing Dive Sites
Explore Australia's premier diving destinations with detailed site information, marine life guides, and essential safety data.
Cremer Wreck, St Bees Island
Mackay, QLD
Broken iron hull, two 8 to 10 m engines and propeller shaft of the 4,608 ton Dutch (KPM) passenger and cargo motor vessel Cremer, stranded on St Bees Island on 5 September 1943, l…
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Crystal Palace
Rottnest Island, WA
A shallow limestone reef off Rottnest Island's south-east coast, east of Parker Point and about 850 m south-west of Dyer Island, riddled with caves, canyons and swim-throughs in 8…
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Curtin Artificial Reef
Moreton Bay, QLD
An artificial reef created from over 30 scuttled vessels, attracting large groupers and schools of fish.
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Danger Reef
GBR, QLD
Outer reef with steep drop-offs, caves and big fish.
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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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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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Dee Why Wide
Dee Why, NSW
An offshore Northern Beaches reef in 18-30 m, with a winter grey nurse aggregation and the room to do macro on the deeper ledges.
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Double Cone Island
Whitsundays, QLD
A relatively undived island in the southern Whitsundays offering healthy hard coral gardens and reliable pelagic activity in clear water away from the main drag.
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Dutton Bay Jetty
Eyre Peninsula, SA
An uncrowded jetty dive brimming with critters, seagrass charm, wrecks and history
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Eaglehawk Neck Caves
Tasmania
Diving the Eaglehawk Neck Caves, Tasmania’s Submerged Labyrinth Spectacular cave diving with dramatic walls and hidden passages Diving the Eagl...
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East Newry Island
Newry Islands, QLD
A sheltered fringing reef in the Newry Island Group off Mackay, offering coral gardens and diverse reef fish in a rarely crowded section of the Great Barrier...
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Edithburgh Jetty
Yorke Peninsula, SA
A classic South Australian jetty dive on Yorke Peninsula, known for seadragons, cuttlefish aggregations, and a community of critters that rewards patient, me...
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Elliston Jetty
West Coast, SA
Elliston's heritage-listed 427 m screw-pile jetty, built in 1900 in Waterloo Bay on the west coast, is a lit recreational fishing jetty with little published dive detail.
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Emu Bay Jetty
Kangaroo Island, SA
A quiet jetty on Kangaroo Island's northern coast offering sheltered shallow diving with sea dragons and a characteristic South Australian jetty marine commu...
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Ethel Wreck
Innes National Park, SA
The broken remains of a 1904 barque scattered across a reef shelf inside Innes National Park, one of South Australia's most accessible historic shipwrecks in...
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Ewens Ponds
Port MacDonnell, SA
A regulated freshwater dive in the limestone karst of South East SA: three connected sinkhole ponds with 30-40 m visibility and a constant 14 °C.
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Ex-HMAS Brisbane
Sunshine Coast, QLD
Former Royal Australian Navy warship scuttled on 31 July 2005 about 9 km off Mooloolaba, now an artificial reef in 28 m with its smoke stack 3 m below the surface. Entry needs a p…
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Ex-HMAS Canberra
Ocean Grove, VIC
Victoria's first purpose-built dive wreck, a 138-metre guided missile frigate scuttled off Ocean Grove and now a sponge-encrusted reef in Bass Strait.
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Ex-HMAS Hobart
Fleurieu Peninsula, SA
South Australia's most intact dive wreck, a 133-metre guided missile destroyer sitting upright in 30 metres in a marine sanctuary off the Fleurieu.
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Ex-HMAS Tobruk
Hervey Bay, QLD
A 127-metre former navy landing ship scuttled in the Great Sandy Marine Park, now a coral-clad wreck with unusually wide swim-throughs.
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Exmouth Navy Jetty
Exmouth, WA
Exmouth Jetty (Exmouth Navy Jetty) is a beginner-friendly WA macro shore dive: 4 to 10 metres, octopus and nudibranchs on concrete pylons.
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Fairlight
Manly, NSW
Sheltered North Harbour shore dive off Fairlight Crescent: kelp-covered rock to a north-south wall at 7 to 9 m with the wreckage of an aluminium speedboat and a tinny, plus boulde…
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Fairy Bower
Manly, NSW
On the southern arm of Cabbage Tree Bay, where Marine Parade rounds the headland between Manly Cove and Shelly Beach, a small rocky inlet drops into a shallow boulder field that h…
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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. Usuall…
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Fish Rock Cave
South West Rocks, NSW
Two kilometres off the South West Rocks coastline, a small rocky islet rises from the Tasman Sea. Beneath it, a tunnel runs clean through the rock for 125 metres, and inside that…
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Fishery Bay Reef
Eyre Peninsula, SA
A protected reef system in a small bay on the lower Eyre Peninsula with clear water, sea dragons, and the Southern Ocean-influenced marine community of the p...
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Five Fathom Reef
Rockingham, WA
A submerged reef platform south of Rockingham in the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park, with resident weedy sea dragons, marine mammals from the nearby colonies...
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Flat Rock
North Stradbroke Island, QLD
A natural rocky island surrounded by vibrant coral gardens, home to turtles, wobbegongs, leopard sharks, and more.
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Flinders Pier
Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Melbournes most popular shore dive featuring a pier structure that attracts unique marine life. Excellent for night diving and macro photography.
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Flinders Reef
Moreton Island, QLD
A vibrant coral reef near Cape Moreton, home to over 175 fish species and diverse marine life.
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Fly Point to Pipeline Drift
Port Stephens, NSW
Incoming-tide shore drift of about 1.2 km from Fly Point west past the marina entrance to the Pipeline.
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Forster Barge
Forster, NSW
A small landing barge scuttled in the 1970s, lying upside down on low reef in 24 to 28 m near the Forster estuary entrance, with grey nurse sharks above and wobbegongs, catfish an…
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Fortescue Bay
Tasman Peninsula, TAS
An accessible shore dive inside Tasman National Park with kelp forest, sandstone reef and a good chance of weedy seadragons in the 10-18m range.
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Frenchmans Bay
La Perouse, NSW
Frenchmans Bay, nestled in Sydney's Botany Bay, is a tranquil haven for macro life. With shallow depths (3-10m), calm conditions, and variable 5-10m visibility, it's ideal for beg…
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Freshwater (Harbord)
Freshwater, NSW
Shore dive beside Freshwater Rock Pool: boulders, ledges, overhangs, kelp and sponges along a rock wall at 8 to 14 m, with two larger reefs east of the point to 20 m. Strong curre…
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Glenelg Dredge Wreck
Adelaide, SA
An Adelaide artificial-reef wreck dive in 22 m of Gulf St Vincent water: blue devils, blue groper and mature encrusting growth on the dredge structure.
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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 arti…
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Gordon's Bay
Coogee, NSW
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...
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Governor Island Marine Reserve
Bicheno, TAS
Governor Island Marine Reserve sits just off the Bicheno coast and is regarded as Tasmania's premier shore-accessible dive location, with more than 35 recognised sites packed into…
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Green Island, South West Rocks
South West Rocks, NSW
South West Rocks is famous for Fish Rock, the through-cave swim that draws divers from around the world. But just along the coast lies its quieter, gentler...
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Halifax Park
Port Stephens, NSW
High-slack shore dive at Halifax Park on Nelson Head: enter through a diver-cleared channel at the end of the sandy car park, then follow a sponge-covered wall from 8 to 15 m nort…
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Hardwicke Bay Jetty
Yorke Peninsula, SA
A sheltered small-community jetty on Yorke Peninsula's mid-eastern coast with good sea dragon habitat and relaxed conditions for beginner and post-certificat...
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Harry Atkinson Artificial Reef
Moreton Bay, QLD
Recreational fishing reef 7 km east-south-east of St Helena Island: the upright wreck of the Tiwi Pearl in 21 m, concrete pipe clusters, quarried rock and a barge. Scuba diving an…
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Hat Head Bommie
Hat Head, NSW
Underrated isolated reef bommie on the NSW mid-north coast with sheltering ledges, pelagic schools, and a steady population of moray eels and cod.
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Haydens Rock
Forster, NSW
Large rock outcrop about 150 m off Forster's Second Head lookout, between Pebbly Beach and Main Beach, dived from shore or boat over a 5 to 10 m seaweed reef with undercuts where…
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Henderson's Rock
Moreton Island, QLD
Granite pinnacle about 4.5 km off North Moreton Island's ocean side, from about 12 m to 25 m, with kelp-hidden ledges and caves and a deep gutter where grey nurse sharks gather in…
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Heron Island
Southern Great Barrier Reef, QLD
Coral cay resort on the southern Great Barrier Reef with more than 20 named dive sites, including Heron Bommie - a famous coral pinnacle dive teeming with turtles, eagle rays and…
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Hippolyte Rocks
Tasman Peninsula, TAS
Hippolyte Rocks is a cluster of granite stacks 8km off Fortescue Bay, ringed by sheer walls and home to one of Tasmania's largest fur seal haul-outs.
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