Discover Amazing Dive Sites
Explore Australia's premier diving destinations with detailed site information, marine life guides, and essential safety data.
Shiprock
Port Hacking, NSW
A small aquatic-reserve wall dive in Port Hacking, a Sydney macro mecca dived only at slack tide and rated the city's best night dive.
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Sisters Rocks
Forestier Peninsula, TAS
A cluster of pinnacles off Cape Surville on the Forestier Peninsula, where sheer walls drop to sponge gardens and sea whips at around 30 to 40 metres.
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Skillion Caves
Terrigal, Central Coast NSW
Scillion Caves sits below the dramatic sandstone headland known as The Skillion at Terrigal. This site features swim-throughs, small caverns, and sponge-covered rock faces. It’s a…
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Sleaford Mere
Lincoln NP, SA
A freshwater coastal lake connected to the sea in Lincoln National Park, producing an unusual freshwater-influenced dive with diverse birdlife overhead and a...
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Smith Rock
Moreton Island, QLD
Smith Rock is one of the most significant and notorious dive sites in South East Queensland. Known as a "ship-killer," this jagged granite outcrop has claimed several vessels, inc…
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Snelling Beach
Kangaroo Island, SA
A sandy-bottomed beach dive on Kangaroo Island's north coast with extensive seagrass beds, sea dragons, and a relaxed drift along the reef fringe in clear gu...
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South Bondi Reef
Bondi, NSW
A Sydney shore dive at the south end of Bondi: sandstone gutters, kelp ledges and a curious blue groper community in 5-18 m beside the city's most famous beach.
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South Maroubra
Maroubra, NSW
Long shore dive from the South Maroubra rock platform over rocky reef and a sand edge in 5 to 15 m, with scattered wreckage from the TSS Belbowrie (1939) and possibly the SS Tekap…
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Split Solitary Island
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Twenty minutes by boat from Coffs Harbour, a rocky island that looks as though it has been cleaved in two rises from the Solitary Islands Marine Park. Split...
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SS Alert
Cape Schanck, VIC
Iron coastal steamer lost off Cape Schanck in a gale on 28 December 1893 with 15 of 16 aboard, now upright at 73 to 80 m inside a permit-only protected zone.
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SS Annie M. Miller
Sydney, NSW
Sydney's SS Annie M. Miller wreck off Dover Heights is an advanced, 46-metre deep historical dive. Featuring variable 8-20m visibility and potential currents, it's a thriving arti…
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SS Macedon Wreck
Rottnest Island, WA
An 1883 steamship wrecked on Rottnest Island's northern reef and now broken up across a shallow limestone bottom, with the boiler, anchor and machinery still recognisable in 5 to…
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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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SS Nord Wreck
Tasman Peninsula, TAS
The SS Nord sank in Munro Bight below Cape Pillar in 1915 after striking Needle Rock; her hull lies on sand in about 40 metres, rising to about 31 metres at the stern.
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SS Yongala Wreck
Great Barrier Reef - Townsville
One of the worlds best wreck dives, the SS Yongala sank in 1911 and is now an artificial reef teeming with marine life. The 109-meter vessel attracts massive schools of fish and p…
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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 s…
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Star of Greece Wreck
Port Willunga, SA
The iron remains of a three-masted sailing ship wrecked in 1888 on the Gulf St Vincent coast south of Adelaide, scattered across a reef in 3-12 metres of wat...
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Steve's Bommie
Ribbon Reefs, QLD
An isolated coral pinnacle on the Ribbon Reefs, rising from 30 metres to near the surface and ranked among the Great Barrier Reef's finest dives.
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Stokes Bay Reef
Kangaroo Island, SA
A reef dive accessible through a natural rock tunnel at Stokes Bay on Kangaroo Island's north coast, with kelp forest, reef fish, and occasional pelagic enco...
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Streaky Bay Jetty
Eyre Peninsula, SA
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...
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Swansea Bridge
Lake Macquarie, NSW
Slack-water shore dive under Swansea Bridge, where demolished earlier bridge structures form an artificial reef; drift dives run down the channel.
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Talia Cave Shore Dive
West Coast, SA
A sea cave accessible by shore dive on the exposed west Eyre Peninsula coast, combining the geological drama of a wave-carved limestone cave with clear South...
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Tangalooma Wrecks
Moreton Island, QLD
Cluster of 15 sunken vessels deliberately scuttled as a breakwater off the western shore of Moreton Island, dive-able from the beach and the most-dived shore wreck site in southea…
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Tank Cave
Mt Gambier, SA
A world-class freshwater cave system near Mt Gambier with extraordinary visibility, permanent haloclines, and one of Australia's most significant technical c...
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Terrigal, NSW
Terrigal Haven is the Central Coast’s quintessential training and relaxation dive site. It may lack the dramatic topography of deep offshore reefs, but it compensates with calm wa…
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Terrigal HMAS Adelaide
Terrigal, NSW
The HMAS Adelaide is a purpose-sunk ex-Royal Australian Navy guided missile frigate resting upright on the sandy seabed just off Terrigal. Scuttled in 2011, the 138-metre vessel h…
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The Bluff (Rosetta Head)
Victor Harbor, SA
A granite headland at Victor Harbor with kelp forest diving, resident sea dragons, and a rugged reef structure that produces some of the most visually dramat...
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The Cementco Wreck
Moreton Island, QLD
The former Army ship Crusader (launched 1945), later the Moreton Bay coral barge Cementco, which sank upside down in about 25 m some 400 m north-east of Flinders Reef in the mid-1…
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The Colours
South Head, NSW
An offshore reef off South Head, 22-33 m deep and covered in sponges, sea squirts and soft corals. A boat dive for experienced divers.
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The Gutter
Shellharbour, NSW
Narrow entry channel leading to reef and kelp beds, ideal for beginners when calm.
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The Leap
Kurnell, NSW
Drift dive along a vibrant sponge garden wall with abundant marine life.
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The Pipeline, Nelson Bay
Port Stephens, NSW
High-slack-tide shore dive along a disused sewer pipe that runs about 250 m north into Port Stephens from beside Nelson Bay marina; one of NSW's best-known macro and night dives.…
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The Steps Drift
Kurnell, NSW
Kurnell's The Steps Drift in Sydney's Botany Bay National Park: a scenic shore drift between The Steps and Monument with soft corals and weedy seadragons.
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The Steps, Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie, NSW
Shallow Port Macquarie shore dive popular for training and night dives, with dense macro life across broken reef and short kelp.
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The Thumbs
Tasman Peninsula, TAS
Three-peaked rock island 200 m off Thumbs Point at the mouth of Fortescue Bay, ringed by a steep wall that drops past 40 m, with kelp, sponges, sea whips and large schools of butt…
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Thistle Island Wall
Spencer Gulf, SA
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...
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Tinderbox Marine Reserve
Hobart, TAS
A protected reserve 23km south of Hobart with an underwater interpretive trail, ideal for snorkelling and entry-level shore diving.
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Tinsmith Reef
Outer GBR, QLD
A remote outer Great Barrier Reef platform reef with pristine coral gardens, strong current diving, and open-ocean pelagic species on the outer slopes.
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Troy D Wreck
Maria Island, TAS
A 55 m former hopper barge scuttled upright off Howells Point, Maria Island, in February 2007 as an artificial reef and dive site, with its interior opened for divers and the hull…
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Tumby Bay Jetty
Eyre Peninsula, SA
shallow seagrass and pylon dive under the 1908-09 Tumby Bay jetty (about 350 m long), about 50 km north of Port Lincoln. A small number of leafy seadragons remain (a local diver's…
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Turquoise Bay
Exmouth, WA
Turquoise Bay is consistently voted one of the best beaches in the world. The "Drift" involves walking south along the beach, entering the water, and letting the natural current c…
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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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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…
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Vivonne Bay Reef
Kangaroo Island, SA
A reef dive on the southern coast of Kangaroo Island with Southern Ocean visibility, dramatic kelp forest, and the cooler water community that the island's e...
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Voodoo
Kurnell, NSW
Boat dive east of Boat Harbour at Kurnell, beside the Cronulla sewage outfall: a flat reef top drops over a small wall and slope to sand at 28 m, with large boulders, gullies and…
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Wallaroo Jetty
Yorke Peninsula, SA
One of the longest recreational jetty dives in South Australia, with an extended pylon run, resident sea dragons, and the marine community of a well-establis...
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Waterfall Bay
Tasman Peninsula, TAS
A boat-dive area on the Tasman Peninsula with a string of dramatic sea caves and dolerite walls, including the entrance to Australia's largest sea cave system.
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Wedding Cake Island
Coogee, NSW
A kilometre off Coogee Beach, a low slab of rock sits awash in the swell, named for its tiered, icing-white resemblance to a wedding cake. Above the water...
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