“You haven’t dived unless you have done a shark feed!”…

Dwarf Minke Whales were first identified in 1985 and are thought to be a sub-species of the Common or North Atlantic Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)…

The Great Barrier Reef is the World’s largest structure built by organisms and is visible from outer space…

The Yongala is regarded by many as the best wreck dive in the World…

Airlie Beach, a quaint tourist town half way between Brisbane and Cairns in far north Queensland, is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands and some great diving.

Spectacular Heron Bommie is one of Australia’s most famous dive sites with a Worldwide reputation, the father of recreational scuba diving, Jacques Cousteau, rated Heron Bommie in his Top 10 dive sites!…

Lady Elliot Island is the southernmost coral cay in the Great Barrier Reef and is in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park’s “Green Zone” therefore being afforded the highest level of protection…

Wolf Rock consists of five volcanic rock pinnacles rising off a sandy bottom at around 40 metres (130’) to shallow water where two of the pinnacles actually break the surface…

Brisbane divers were truly ahead of their time!…

Manta Ray Bommie on North Stradbroke Island is a cleaning station for the magnificent and graceful reef manta ray, Manta Alfredi, and the world’s largest aggregation site of leopard sharks…

Balls Pyramid. Lord Howe Island, Balls Pyramid, Lord Howe Island.

According to one story in Bundalong Dreamtime a jealous husband threw his spear to a canoe carrying his wife and her lover. The canoe broke into two creating Nguthungulli, Julian Rocks, just 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) off Cape Byron…

The Solitary Islands, a group of five off-shore islands, are just off the east coast of Australia half way between Sydney and Brisbane. They stretch north and south for around 75 kilometres (47 miles)…

Australia’s famous Fish Rock Cave is located on the mid north coast of New South Wales off Smokey Cape, just short two kilometre (just over a mile) boat ride from shore…

Broughton Island, a small 114 hectare low lying granite island surrounded by beautiful Pacific waters, is one of New South Wales central coasts most popular diving destinations…

On a headland just north of Sydney between the suburbs of Dee Why and Collaroy lies Long Reef Aquatic Reserve, the oldest aquatic reserve in New South Wales…

Sydney divers are the luckiest divers in Australia – they literally have hundreds of dive sites right at their doorstep and Bare Island is a quintessential example of the wonderful diving around Sydney.

Jervis Bay has been a “Mecca” for Sydney and Canberra scuba divers since the early 1970’s…

Dragon Rock is an “aggregation site” and a critical habitat for the endangered Grey Nurse Shark, Carcharias Taurus…

The seals on the north western tip of Montague Island, off the southern coast of New South Wales, are totally unafraid of humans and their underwater antics are just amazing…

The SS Empire Gladstone was just one of around 12,000 Empire ships utilised by the British Ministry of War Transport during the Second World War. The fleet was the largest in the World and included freighters, tankers and aircraft carriers…

Bicheno, a small fishing village on the east coast of Tasmania north of the Freycinet Peninsula, is the home of some of the best temperate water in the World…

Australia’s cool southern waters support massive growths of kelp, brown algae, some of which form giant underwater kelp forests…

If ever the term pristine could be used to describe a place then it is the word for Wilsons Promontory. It has around 130 kilometres (80 miles) of coastline and most of it unexplored underwater!…

The Pinnacle, just off Cape Woolamai, is a towering underwater pinnacle of granite and one of Victoria’s most awe inspiring dive sites…

When the cold southerlies are blowing Blairgowrie Marina offers divers tranquil conditions and an enormous variety of temperate marine life including dozens of species of nudibranch.

The strong tides caused by the Port Phillip Bay entrance provides scuba divers with exhilarating drift dives where a diver can travel over two kilometres (one mile) in just 30 minutes…

Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay formed around 8,000-6,000 BC and until then its narrow entrance was the mouth of the Yarra River as it entered Bass Strait…

J5 Submarine. Queenscliff/Portsea, Victoria.

Just prior to World War I in an effort to match the speed of the German U-Boats rumored to be 18 Knots, the Royal Navy commissioned eight J Class submarines…

The south west coast of Victoria has a very rugged coastline and it is equally rugged underwater and in the right weather conditions the diving is fantastic…

The Limestone Coast of south eastern South Australia is littered with limestone caves and sinkholes. In fact, the township of Mount Gambier is built on them…

Rapid Bay Jetty is one of Adelaide’s most popular dive sites due to its resident population of exquisite ornately camouflaged leafy or Glauert’s Seadragons (Phycodurus eques)…

Aldinga Beach Aquatic Reserve, one of Australia’s earliest marine reserves, lies just 45 kilometres (28 miles) to the south of Adelaide, South Australia’s capital city, in the Gulf St Vincent…

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the South Australian Dive Industry was instrumental in gaining government approval for a series of artificial reefs…

Edithburgh Jetty is an underwater photographers dream, and at night it really reveals its secrets!…

Carcharodon carcharias is an awesome name for an awesome fish – the great white shark – the largest predatory fish in the ocean…

Weebubbie Cave is one of over 250 caves below the Nullabor Plain approximately half way between the cities of Perth and Adelaide…

When the Sanko Harvest struck Harvest Reef near Esperance in 1991, a near environmental disaster became a windfall for scuba divers…

The last whaling station to cease operations in Australia was the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company in Albany, Western Australia…

Ex-HMAS Swan was scuttled on the morning of 14 December 1997 in front of over 10,000 spectators. She was the first of six former Royal Australian Navy ships to be deliberately sunk for recreational diving…

Busselton Jetty, said to be Australia’s largest artificial reef, is the longest wooden pylon jetty in the Southern Hemisphere and supports over 300 marine species…

Rottnest Island just west of the Perth is surrounded by spectacular dive sites particularly on the “West End”…

In September 1983 while undertow from Darwin to Fremantle for stacking in the Cockburn Sound to await deployment the Key Biscayne and support vessels Atlas Van Diemen and Argus Guard struck rough weather…

Shipwreck, mutiny and murder!…

The Exmouth Navy Pier is arguably the best jetty dive in Australia, if not the World!…

The Rowley Shoals are three tiny coral atolls in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean off the remote north western Australian coast 260 kilometres (160 miles) west of Broome…

Darwin Harbour is a mecca for wreck diving enthusiasts where over 20 wrecks, including six Catalina flying boats, lay on the bottom waiting to be explored…