DIVE INDEX
Australia’s 50 Great Dives
Raine Island is the world’s largest nesting rookery of endangered green sea turtles.
“You haven’t dived until you have done a shark feed!”
Every winter, dwarf minke whales travel to the warm waters of the Great Barrier Reef.
The Cod Hole is a world-famous ‘mega’ fish experience!
The sensational Museum of Underwater Art is the first underwater art museum in the southern hemisphere.
The Yongala is regarded by many as one of the best wreck dives in the world!
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.
Wolf Rock consists of five volcanic rock pinnacles rising from a sandy bottom!
Flinders Reef is a small isolated true coral reef, right on Brisbane’s doorstep.
Brisbane divers were truly ahead of their time!
North Stradbroke Island is visited every summer by graceful reef manta rays and docile leopard sharks.
Balls Pyramid, the world’s tallest sea stack, is picturesque Lord Howe Island’s premier dive site.
According to Bundjalung-Arakwal Dreamtime, Nguthungulli was the Creator.
The Solitary Islands Marine Park is a unique blend of tropical, sub-tropical and temperature marine life.
Australia’s famous Fish Rock Cave is an aggregation site and critical habitat for docile and protected grey nurse sharks.
Broughton Island is surrounded by beautiful Pacific Ocean waters.
Arguably Sydney’s best dive, certainly the fishiest!
Sydney’s best grey nurse shark dive!
A ‘Mecca’ for Sydney and Canberra scuba divers since the early 1970’s.
An eye-to-eye encounter with a grey nurse shark is absolutely adrenaline pumping!
The seals at Barunguba are totally unafraid of humans and their antics are just amazing!
If ever the term ‘pristine’ could be used to describe a place, then it’s the word for Wilsons Promontory.
The Pinnacle, a huge underwater tower of granite, is one of Victoria’s most awe-inspiring dive sites.
When the cold southerlies are blowing, Blairgowrie Marina offers a great dive in tranquil conditions.
Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay has its own small but unique population of bottlenose dolphins, called Burrunan dolphins.
The strong currents at the entrance of Port Phillip Bay allow for exhilarating high speed drift dives!
The remnants of the old Yarra River now form spectacular underwater walls in southern Port Phillip Bay.
Victoria is the home six First World War submarines, four of which lay in water around 30 metres (100’) deep!
Governor Island Marine Reserve is the home of some of the best temperate water diving in the world!
Australia’s cool southern waters support massive growths of seaweed, some of which form giant underwater kelp forests.
Australia’s biggest network of underwater sea caves is beneath Waterfall Bay’s spectacular towering cliffs.
The Limestone Coast of south eastern South Australia is littered with limestone caves and sinkholes. In fact, the township of Mount Gambier is built over them!
Rapid Bay Jetty is surely, the seadragon capital of the world!
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the South Australian Dive Industry was instrumental in gaining government approval for a series of artificial reefs.
Edithburgh Jetty is an underwater photographer’s dream, and at night it really reveals its secrets!
In winter every year, near Whyalla, the population of Australian giant cuttlefish explodes for their mating season.
Carcharodon carcharias is an awesome name for an awesome fish – the great white shark – the largest predatory fish in the ocean.
According to Mirning people dreamtime, the deeper caves of the Nullarbor are the home of the water serpent Jeedara.
When the Sanko Harvest struck a reef near Esperance in 1991, a near environmental disaster became a goliath windfall for scuba divers.
Ex-HMAS Swan was the first of six former Royal Australian Navy ships to be deliberately sunk for recreational diving.
Busselton Jetty is the longest wooden pylon jetty in the Southern Hemisphere!
Rottnest Island is surrounded by spectacular dive sites, particularly the island’s ‘West End’.
The former jack-up drilling rig, Key Biscayne, lays upside down on a sandy bottom supporting a stunning array of fish life.
Shipwreck, mutiny and murder!
The Exmouth Navy Pier is arguably the best jetty dive in Australia, if not the World!
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the oceans, only some species of whale are bigger!
An amazing 40,000 humpback whales use the Exmouth waters as a resting area every year on their return to the Antarctic!
The Rowley Shoals are three tiny coral atolls in the middle of nowhere!
Darwin Harbour is a mecca for wreck diving enthusiasts, over 80 wrecks including six Catalina flying boats lie waiting to be explored.