Brisbane divers were truly ahead of their time!…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…