Sites dived on the current: tidal channels like the Gold Coast Seaway, Swansea and Port Phillip Heads, and the reef passes of the Coral Sea and the Rowley Shoals. Surface marker, boat cover and slack-water timing are the essentials.
29 sites
Coral Sea · External Territory
Osprey's most challenging drift, where current brings barracuda, hunting predators and mantas to a cleaning station.
A clear-water wall drift between Bougainville's two freighter wrecks.
Christmas Island · External Territory
The island's classic drift: swirling currents, eel gardens, gorgonians and a chance of hammerheads, ten minutes from…
A documented submarine cave beneath the Coconut Point drift – a scientific and technical cave site, not a recreational…
A network of coral canyons leading to the edge of a drop of more than 1,400 m, with schooling jacks and reef sharks.
Rated one of the island's best shark dives, with open-ocean pelagics and 40 m+ visibility at the south-west corner of…
Spectacular bommies and blue-water swim-throughs in a blind gully, with schooling trevally and barracuda and dense grey…
An easy one-way drift from drop-off into a lush coral garden, often linked with Submarine Rock.
A drift along the ridge in the channel between the two Holmes atolls.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands · External Territory
Current-swept outer reef slope with many sharks and fusilier schools; reserved for experienced divers.
45 m bommies and a current-swept gully alive with feather stars, fans and soft corals.
A rarely described Bougainville drift site on Mike Ball's Far Northern expedition.
Australia's most famous shark dive – 10–30 reef sharks around a controlled feed in a 12 m amphitheatre at the top of a…
A sheer drift along a wall dropping more than 1,000 m, with caves, overhangs, mantas and tuna.
Sandy reef ledges with sleeping reef sharks and dense schools – the gentler companion dive to Perpendicular Wall.
A strong-current drift through gutters between very large pinnacles.
A true vertical wall into the abyss at the island's north-western tip, with colourful fans, schooling fish and a real…
Near-untouched national park reef with 40 m-plus visibility and plentiful sharks, dived by permit only on rare calm…
Walk across the reef flat from Scout Park and drift around a palm-covered islet with clams, turtles, octopus and baby…
A rarely dived, current-swept southern horn with dense fish schools on the plateau and a sheer wall.
A point on the Settlement coast between the gentle Morgue and the current-swept Coconut Point.
Norfolk Island · External Territory
Current-swept pinnacle to 40 m off Phillip Island, with black coral and abundant fish.
A submarine-shaped reef and 50 m drop-off with healthy boulder corals and passing mantas, eagle rays and grey reef…
A dramatic drift along a 1,000 m wall cut with caves, gutters and canyons.
A gentle, shallow drift over colourful coral a few metres from shore – an ideal first drift dive.
Drift along a bay of gutters and caves over a carpet of hard coral, with goldribbon cod, black cod and green turtles.
A fast, coral-lined drift channel from the ocean into the lagoon, full of sharks, humphead parrotfish and Napoleon…
A clear-water wall drift with sharks, rays and schooling fish.
The tidal passage between West Island and Horsburgh Island, seen from a glass-bottom boat and feeding the north-western…
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