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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Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay · VIC
Free-parking western-suburbs training pier with a small artificial reef off its end; flat, easy and sheltered from…
Sheltered bayside jetty beside the Cerberus hulk; one of Melbourne's favourite spring night dives for bioluminescence.
Mornington Peninsula · VIC
Victoria's premier pier dive: sponge-covered pylons, 100+ nudibranch species, seahorses, four octopus species and…
Port Phillip Heads · VIC
Gentle drift along the pile stumps and rubble of the Point Nepean quarantine cattle jetty in 8–18 m – sheltered,…
Geelong & Bellarine · VIC
Ruins of a Victorian spa resort's piers in shallow, sheltered water full of seahorses and nudibranchs; historic bottles…
Heritage-listed remains of an 1890 steamer pier with rails and fittings on a shallow seagrass bottom; seahorses and a…
Phillip Island & Western Port · VIC
A sheltered, easy-access pier on Western Port's eastern shore known chiefly for bottle and relic fossicking at slack…
Phillip Island's easiest and most reliable dive – a long Western Port pier with seahorses, crabs and octopus on the…
Geelong's deepest pier dive under a 1850s wool pier, sheltered from south and west winds; a study in native versus…
Ultra-shallow training and night dive with the pylons and rail wheels of the old jetty 200 m out; sheltered from…
The weedy seadragon capital of the world – dozens of residents in seagrass at 3–4 m under a heritage pier, plus…
Closest pier dive to Melbourne; seahorses and globefish on the pylons; easy training and night dive with facilities on…
East Gippsland · VIC
A sheltered granite bay and jetty on a lighthouse island 14 km off Mallacoota, with blue groper, banded morwong,…
One of Victoria's oldest piers, dived under the bow of HMAS Castlemaine; a silty urban structure dive for calm winter…
Historic fishing-port pier in a sheltered tidal bay; a curiosity dive on the top of a spring tide.
Twenty minutes from the CBD; a rebuilt, well-lit pier with reliable critter life on the piles for easy night and…
Closest pier dive to the Melbourne CBD; an easy, very shallow snorkel or check-out dive with a lit pier for night dives.
Surf Coast & Great Ocean Road · VIC
The only pier dive on the Otway coast: seahorses, cowfish, crabs and rays on the pylons and sand in a few metres of…
Melbourne's standard training and night-dive pier with a sheltered breakwater full of critters and good facilities.
Long, lit suburban pier with reliable macro life and an infamous shopping-trolley graveyard; easy night and training…
Deepest of the northern piers with a reef along Schnapper Point; cuttlefish, seahorses and squid; diveable when…
Short, current-swept pier dive on the Phillip Island side of The Narrows with pylon growth fed by six-knot tidal…
A small pier at the western jaw of The Rip with oceanic-clear water and thick pile growth – seahorses and nudibranchs…
Shipwreck Coast & Warrnambool · VIC
The Shipwreck Coast's sheltered pier dive: rays under the pylons, crays and abalone in the gutters and the Napier wreck…
Sheltered north-facing Bellarine pier, reachable by ferry from Melbourne, with reliable seahorses and small artificial…
The most reliable bay-side weedy seadragon pier, with clean ocean-flushed water, kelp at the head and adjoining reefs;…
Queenscliff's training pier with oceanic-flushed visibility and richly grown piles; the sheltered base for a Heads…
Shallow basalt reef patches off a historic point named by George Bass, with old jetty pylons in Cat Bay as a bonus; an…
Tiny, sheltered fishing jetty in Rippleside Park; a quick local Geelong dive or snorkel paired with Rippleside Pier.
Quiet, sheltered inner-harbour pier in a family park; an easy Geelong training, night or snorkel site when the coast is…
Uncrowded pier with rich seagrass nursery; seahorses and rays without the Rye crowds.
Seahorses on nearly every pylon, the annual giant spider crab aggregation, big stingrays and superb night diving – all…
The best pylon growth in Western Port's eastern arm, produced by 5–6 knot tidal streams, and a short, sheltered beach…
Breakwater built partly from old ship hulks, with the J7 submarine wreck 150 m away; sheltered, fishy and good at night.
Easiest walk-in entry near Ricketts Point via a concrete ramp, leading to a boulder field under towering sandstone…
Easy, very shallow seagrass pier dive beside Seaford station; garfish schools in the weed and simple night diving.
One of Melbourne's best night dives: colourful sponge-covered ferry pylons, weedy seadragons and antique bottles under…
Granite caves and tunnels around an 1880s fort island, with seals, cuttlefish and blue devils in the middle of Port…
Extensive seagrass nursery beside a landmark pier reachable by tram; good macro and night diving close to the city.
The Bellarine's best pier: 4-6 m of sheltered, weedy water with seahorses, stargazers and cuttlefish, an 1850s wreck's…
A current-swept ferry pier on Western Port's main channel; a slack-water dive for tidal specialists with the French…
Victoria's least-dived pier, reached by passenger ferry to French Island; a tidal adventure dive.
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