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
Yorke Peninsula · SA
Remote island with 50+ sites, 20 m walls, seal colonies, big blue groper and historic wrecks at the mouth of Spencer…
Kangaroo Island · SA
A sheltered tidal channel muck dive for seahorses and pipefish at the entrance to Pelican Lagoon.
Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA
A 1910 Murray paddle steamer turned coastal schooner, lost in 1976, sitting upright in 38 m with a Chrysler Valiant…
A fur seal colony under a sculpted sea arch – a land-based wildlife highlight, not a dive.
Walls, undercuts and caves that tunnel right through Yorke Peninsula's southernmost point, below the Cape Spencer…
Current-swept reef below South Australia's oldest lighthouse (1852) at KI's eastern tip.
An offshore pinnacle rising from 35 m to 12 m near Althorpe Island, packed with fish and gorgonians.
Eyre Peninsula · SA
The historic white shark cage-diving and filming site of the 1970s, now a protected pinniped breeding colony with no…
Wild, rarely dived rocky beaches in Deep Creek Conservation Park, best as a calm-day snorkel or exploratory dive.
South Australia's most photographed wreck: the iron ribs of an 1876 barque rising from the sand of a wild Innes surf…
A 133 m guided missile destroyer sitting upright in 30 m with the superstructure from 5 m, and the only prepared naval…
Towering, bird-covered island with seal-visited ledges and big blue groper – usually dived with the famous Haystack…
A kilometre-long wall from 22 m to 10 m, riddled with caves and swim-throughs and carpeted in red, yellow and orange…
Adelaide Metro · SA
A rarely visited, broken-up 1879 Port Adelaide-built vessel far offshore, with its bow still recognisable.
Whyalla & Upper Spencer Gulf · SA
A small scuttled tug in 22 m in the Whyalla shipping channel – a slack-water, fish-rich challenge.
A seal colony dive with colourful bommies off the south-west tip, in the tidal channels of Thorny Passage.
An easy shallow reef snorkel or drift just west of Point Turton, with a small sea cave to explore on land.
The youngest wreck on the Investigator Strait trail, a 1982 steel fishing boat half-buried under Althorpe Island's…
The dynamited remains of an 1893 Glasgow-built four-masted barque sunk in a collision in 1907, now a fish-rich heritage…
Fish-attracting tyre reefs in 18 m off Point Lowly – a slack-water dive for artificial-reef enthusiasts.
Spectacular reef walls with ledges and small caves at 18 m on a current-swept headland full of fish.
The boiler of a once-stolen 'pirate' steamer lying beside the Ethel on a wild Innes beach.
Boiler, engine, anchor and windlass of a 1919 zinc-laden steamer that took 11 lives, lying in a reef gully on remote…
An unspoilt, rarely dived rocky coast in Deep Creek Conservation Park, teeming with crayfish, seals and seadragons.
Pristine walls and big fish schools around sea lion islets in the middle of Backstairs Passage.
The graveyard of six of South Australia's earliest wrecked sailing ships on the shoal beneath the 1856 Troubridge…
A spectacular surf beach in Newland Head Conservation Park – not suitable for swimming or diving.
Remote island with 150 m cliffs, walls and drifts to 50 m and Shark Cove's undercut ledge and tunnel through North…
Sheer walls, deep ledges and boulder crevices with leafy seadragons and catsharks at one of SA's most remote island…
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