Piers and jetties are some of Australia's best macro dives: leafy and weedy seadragons, seahorses, nudibranchs and octopus under the pylons, usually with easy entries and parking nearby.
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Groote Eylandt · NT
An easy, shallow wharf dive at Alyangula where resident dolphins are often seen.
East Arnhem Land & Gove · NT
Pylons crowded with nudibranchs, flatworms, decorator crabs and feather stars, with big schools of fish under the wharf…
Darwin Harbour · NT
Encrusted ferry-jetty pylons and bottom rubbish with barramundi, groper and batfish - Darwin's best jetty dive.
Fragments of the munitions ship whose explosion at Stokes Hill Wharf killed 45 people on 19 February 1942.
A shallow fish-attracting reef under Darwin's busiest fishing platform, next to the remnants of the 1942 Neptuna.
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