The Best Dive Sites in Sydney
Chosen for reliability, access and marine life, across the Harbour, Northern Beaches and the south.
Sydney is the best big-city diving in the world by most measures: more than 200 sites, most of them shore dives, a no-take reserve at Manly, grey nurse sharks at Maroubra, seahorses in the Harbour and weedy seadragons in Botany Bay. This list is the dozen locals would send a visitor to first.
4. Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
The Steps (Kurnell)
Weedy seadragons on the southern shore of Botany Bay.
7. Sydney Northern Beaches · NSW
The Apartments (Long Reef)
Grey nurse sharks and wobbegongs off Long Reef by boat.
8. Sydney Northern Beaches · NSW
Old Man's Hat (North Head)
North Head's sponge-covered wall, on calm days only.
11. Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
SS Tuggerah wreck
A 1919 collier in 49 m off Long Reef, for advanced divers.
12. Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
Bronte (Bronte-Coogee Aquatic Reserve)
Sydney's eastern beaches aquatic reserve.