The Best Dive Sites near Melbourne
Chosen across the piers, the Heads, the Ships' Graveyard and Western Port.
Within two hours of Melbourne you can dive the world's best pier for macro life, a scuttled frigate, a WWI submarine and a tidal wall that drops past 40 m. Cold water is the price. These are the dozen to start with, from the bayside suburbs to Port Phillip Heads and Western Port.
5. Port Phillip Heads · VIC
Popes Eye
A horseshoe of bluestone in the bay full of fish and gannets, a great second dive.
10. Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay · VIC
HMVS Cerberus
An 1870 ironclad monitor scuttled as a breakwater at Half Moon Bay, dived from the beach.
11. Phillip Island & Western Port · VIC
The Pinnacles (Cape Woolamai)
Phillip Island's granite pinnacles with seals.
