Dives beyond recreational limits or needing advanced training: deep wrecks, walls and caves. Technical notes cover gas, decompression and penetration considerations where known.
87 sites · the first 48 shown as cards, the rest listed by state below
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An 1883 Welsh collier, sunk by a US destroyer in Victoria Dock in 1925 and scuttled in 1929 – swim-throughs and a fully…
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…
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…
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…
An 1868 iron barque scuttled in 1950 with all three masts still aboard – crow's nest across the hull and a sailing-ship…
A 1912 Dutch-built steam dredge with stern boilers you can swim between, standing engine exhausts, surviving timber…
The last vessel scuttled in the Ships' Graveyard (1971) – a Dutch hopper barge in 52–57 m with a penetrable stern and…
An 1879 Aberdeen-built iron barque famous for fast passages, ending as a Harbour Trust coal hulk in 1947 – intact bow…
A 12-to-30 m drop-off on the Nepean side with a long soft-coral overhang at 27 m and the most dependable blue devils at…
A granite wall plunging to 55 m with caves and swim-throughs on the exposed corner of Kanowna Island, with prolific…
One of the five Harbour Trust hopper barges scuttled together in 1935 – an 1884 Adelaide-built sister of the Burke, in…
Second-largest wreck in the Graveyard – intact bridge with an exhaust stack across it and three boilers in 50–54 m; a…
One of the last two vessels scuttled in the Graveyard (1970) – a simple steel hopper barge with the big cogged…
Sister of the H.C. Piggot and a WWI minesweeper, the last Harbour Trust barge scuttled (1952) – substantially intact…
Sister of the Wills, an 1884 Adelaide-built Harbour Trust hopper barge scuttled in 1935, lying in about 50 m 500 m from…
A remarkably complete 1897 steam tug – triple-expansion engine, boilers, tow anchor, steering quadrant and even the…
Diving with thousands of Australian fur seals on a kelp-covered granite slope in clear water off the Prom's southern…
A 1905 Clyde-built pump dredge that is one of the most complete large wrecks off Victoria – both propellers in place…
Diving the southernmost point of mainland Australia – an easy weed-and-boulder bay strewn with shipwreck debris on the…
An unsalvaged 1881 cargo liner lying collapsed at the foot of the uncharted pinnacle that sank her in 1885, in 48–50 m…
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