Dives beyond recreational limits or needing advanced training: deep wrecks, walls and caves. Technical notes cover gas, decompression and penetration considerations where known.
423 sites · the first 48 shown as cards, the rest listed by state below
Rottnest Island · WA
Dozens of deliberately scuttled vessels, mostly unseen, in 46-200 m - Perth's frontier for technical wreck exploration.
Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves · SA
A single midday shaft of sunlight falling into a flooded chamber 140 m long – and the birthplace of Australia's…
Wilsons Promontory · VIC
A collier lost with all hands in a 1901 gale and found by CSIRO sonar in 2019, lying broken in 115 m off Cape Conran –…
Hanging over a 100 m+ spring-fed slot in 40 m-plus visibility – the signature Mount Gambier image.
Port Phillip Heads · VIC
The descent point for Entrance Deep, Victoria's deepest known dive at 103 m in the drowned Yarra channel inside the…
South West Rocks · NSW
A 1950 Army lighter lost with all hands in a cyclone, undiscovered until 2009 and now one of Australia's premier deep…
Surf Coast & Great Ocean Road · VIC
The first American merchant ship lost in WWII, intact and upright in 82 m off Cape Otway – Victoria's premier deep…
An Attack-class patrol boat scuttled in 1999 and found in 2001 – upright and clean in 82 m off Cape Schanck with…
A 126 m WWI hospital ship and coastal liner lost in fog in 1929, found in 2005 and lying largely recognisable in 80–82…
A 77 m volcanic crater lake that turns cobalt blue every summer – view only; diving prohibited.
An upright, largely intact 1877 iron steamer in 75 m, lost with 15 lives in 1893 and found by Southern Ocean…
The oldest hull in the Graveyard – an 1855 Greenock-built iron barque and coal hulk scuttled in 1916 – bow and stern…
Tasman Peninsula · TAS
Rarely seen 1883 steamer at 70 m beneath the Hippolyte Needle – a serious technical expedition target.
An 1859 Thames-built iron barque and coal hulk – the first vessel scuttled in the Graveyard (1913) – found by Southern…
Granite walls plunging to 70 m with caves and swim-throughs directly beneath the Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse; the…
An 1887 Footscray-built Harbour Trust bucket dredge standing 4–5 m proud in 68 m – possibly the best-preserved wreck in…
Albany & Great Southern · WA
Deep, rarely visited canyons and bommies to 66 m with pristine sponge gardens, huge gorgonians and black coral.
The 90-degree corner of Lonsdale Wall: towering split faces on two sides dropping from 19 m to 66 m, with blue devils…
Phillip Island & Western Port · VIC
A Western District coastal steamer lost with all 17 hands in a 1934 storm, found by Southern Ocean Exploration in 2011…
Remote seal-colony islets with bull kelp shallows, sponge reefs from 30 m and huge fish schools.
50 m-plus visibility in a cliff-walled sinkhole that Open Water divers can dive with an approved operator; midday light…
Atherton Tablelands · QLD
The Tablelands' largest crater lake – deep, rain-fed and rarely dived, beside a 1926 teahouse.
A rainforest-fringed volcanic crater lake with sunken trees, turtles and submerged boats at 25 m – Queensland's classic…
The vertical Nepean side of The Rip: a boomerang-shaped trench whose northern wall drops from 18 m to 65 m through…
The outermost Nepean-side wall: ledges, caves and drop-offs from a 10 m kelp top to 65 m facing Bass Strait, with the…
Sheer granite walls dropping past 65 m beneath the Prom's landmark sea-cave island, in the clearest water in Victoria,…
A 1893 island trader with a chequered life, lying at 65 m – one of the deep Graveyard set dived only by trimix and…
A deep, intact iron sailing-ship hull in 65 m, the best known of the Rottnest graveyard wrecks among Perth tech divers.
Current-swept sponge pinnacle that sank the SS Tasman; one of Tasmania's most dramatic deep dives.
An 1883 Welsh collier, sunk by a US destroyer in Victoria Dock in 1925 and scuttled in 1929 – swim-throughs and a fully…
Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
Rare 1863 iron collier with upright engine and boiler at 58–59 m in the Botany Bay approaches; lost with all but one of…
An 1876 Western District coastal steamer turned coal hulk, scuttled in 1934 and lying in 62 m near the Hygeia – one of…
Intact paddle wheels of the fastest bay excursion steamer of the 1890s, standing in 60 m in the shipping channel – very…
Stepped walls dropping 5–10 m at a time to beyond 60 m, with house-sized fallen boulders at the foot of each step and…
Portland & the West · VIC
Sponge-garden reefs in 30–60 m under the Bonney Upwelling's blue whale feeding ground, on Victoria's most exposed coast…
Ledge-and-cave wall from a kelp-topped 10 m reef down to 60 m between Nepean Wall and Corsair Rock, with RMS Australia…
Jervis Bay · NSW
A modern trawler wreck at 60 m off Point Perpendicular with instruments still visible inside.
Deep wall on Spectacular Reef off Shortland Bluff – overhangs, small caves and swim-throughs from 19 m to beyond 60 m,…
A sheer cliff with roofed overhangs at the seaward mouth of The Rip, dived only on the end-of-flood slack in calm seas…
Forster & Seal Rocks · NSW
An 1895 gold-carrying steamer wrecked with 54 lives lost near Seal Rocks — now a deep technical wreck dive at 55-60 m,…
A truck-sized cavern in the face of Lonsdale Wall at 30 m, at the ocean end of the system – ebb-slack only, shipping…
A sheer north-facing wall in the middle of the entrance channel, 18 m to 40 m and beyond, whose shaded overhangs show…
A freighter's anchor chain, cut free in the 1980s, hanging from 18 m to 60 m down Lonsdale Wall and now completely…
A 2 km granite wall of 10 m boulders, swim-throughs and overhangs from 10 m to 60 m with perch clouds and zoanthid…
An 1879 Renfrew-built Harbour Trust bucket dredge – one of the oldest hulls in the ground, scuttled in 1955 after…
An 1875 iron barque and coal hulk sunk in 1927 – intact bow with easy swim-throughs and some of the richest sponge…
A 1912 Dutch-built bucket dredge bought from Batavia by the Harbour Trust and scuttled in 1949 – on sand in 58 m at the…
An 1869 iron barque and Harbour Trust hulk, sunk with three gelignite charges in 1930, lying in 57 m 178 m from her…
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