Dives beyond recreational limits or needing advanced training: deep wrecks, walls and caves. Technical notes cover gas, decompression and penetration considerations where known.
9 sites
Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs · NT
Australia's first protected war grave – a WWII Japanese minelaying submarine in 45 m, closed to divers; viewable…
East Arnhem Land & Gove · NT
Gove's closest island dive: colourful fringing coral in the shallows and sponge- and fan-filled caves deeper down, with…
Spectacular granite rocks with caves and swim-throughs and a deep, intact trawler wreck – Gove's most remote dive.
Darwin Harbour · NT
A deep rock wall at 33-40 m with huge gorgonian fans and schools of sweetlip and trevally.
Sheltered coral gardens on one side and a steep seaward wall of gorgonians and black coral on the other, patrolled by…
A deep, rarely visited reef at 32 m with rich coral and fish life.
The US destroyer sunk with 88 of her crew in the first raid on Darwin; the harbour's deepest and most solemn WWII dive.
The upturned ferry that disappeared with her skipper during Cyclone Tracy and was found only in 2004.
A 1937 Japanese pearling mother-ship in 26 m off Arnhem Land – archaeologically significant and inside a closed 200 ha…
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