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.

Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay has its own small but unique population of Burrunan Dolphins, Tursiops australis…

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…