Vertical reef, drop-offs and sponge-covered walls: Port Phillip Heads, the Tasman Peninsula, Osprey Reef, the Ribbon Reefs and the granite coasts of the south.
617 sites · the first 48 shown as cards, the rest listed by state below
Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves · SA
Hanging over a 100 m+ spring-fed slot in 40 m-plus visibility – the signature Mount Gambier image.
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…
Wilsons Promontory · VIC
Granite walls plunging to 70 m with caves and swim-throughs directly beneath the Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse; the…
The 90-degree corner of Lonsdale Wall: towering split faces on two sides dropping from 19 m to 66 m, with blue devils…
Tasman Peninsula · TAS
Remote seal-colony islets with bull kelp shallows, sponge reefs from 30 m and huge fish schools.
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,…
Current-swept sponge pinnacle that sank the SS Tasman; one of Tasmania's most dramatic deep dives.
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…
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…
Jervis Bay · NSW
A sheer-walled dead-end gorge dropping to 50–55 m, packed with colourful deep sessile life.
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…
A deep sea-whip and gorgonian garden at 37–50 m in 25–35 m visibility – one of NSW's finest deep dives.
Sheer columnar walls under a 300 m cape at the edge of the Southern Ocean, with superb clarity.
Rowley Shoals · WA
Clear-water slope to a drop-off.
Geographe Bay & Busselton · WA
A remote offshore reef with big drop-offs to 50 m, 20 nm out and rarely dived.
Esperance & Recherche Archipelago · WA
Sheltered granite with seals on Remark's north side, a 50 m sponge and black coral wall on its south, and Frederick…
Shoalhaven Coast · NSW
Remote offshore banks with walls to 50 m, pristine colourful sessile life and pelagic sharks including hammerheads.
Diving the southernmost point of mainland Australia – an easy weed-and-boulder bay strewn with shipwreck debris on the…
A gorgonian-covered wall plunging to 50 m.
A quiet second drop on the western entrance wall, 15–50 m, flood-slack only – for experienced deep divers who want an…
A less-visited east–west wall at the entrance with small caves and overhangs from 15 m to 50 m, dived only on the flood…
Yorke Peninsula · SA
Remote island with 150 m cliffs, walls and drifts to 50 m and Shark Cove's undercut ledge and tunnel through North…
Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
An immense deep reef of walls, swim-throughs and sea-whip gardens 5 km off Cronulla, named for its wandering anemones.
Albany & Great Southern · WA
A 300 m granite canyon only 5-6 m wide, lined with sponges and crayfish, with resident wobbegongs and huge blue groper.
Sydney Northern Beaches · NSW
Deep rocky shelves and valleys in 36–45 m of clear offshore water east of North Head – a technical-depth reef few have…
Vertical Lonsdale Wall face with a step-out every 6–9 m and a cave-like overhang behind each one, from 12 m to 45 m –…
Vertical walls that bloom with sponges, sea whips and anemones below 30 m; regarded as one of Australia's best…
The central and fishiest stretch of Lonsdale Wall – a near-vertical face from 15 m to 45 m with blue devils,…
Pristine vertical wall at 30–39 m with pineapplefish, blue devils and anemone-draped sea whips.
Coral Sea · External Territory
A coral village of huge bommies with a centuries-old anchor in a swim-through, flashlight fish at night and a sheer…
Port Douglas · QLD
Two huge coral towers rising from 40 m with a deep gutter – one of the sharkiest spots on Agincourt.
Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait · QLD
Soft-coral walls and coral gardens, paired with the Stanley Island rock-art excursion.
Remote island with 50+ sites, 20 m walls, seal colonies, big blue groper and historic wrecks at the mouth of Spencer…
Steep granite walls and boulder gutters with rich sponge cover in the clear water of the Anser Group; a slightly…
A 'spectacular' deep reef formation off Shortland Bluff at 12–40 m beside the shipping channel, paired with Knawesome…
A clear-water wall drift between Bougainville's two freighter wrecks.
Ocean-facing granite wall to 40 m with caves, sponge gardens, black coral trees and schooling pelagics.
Port Stephens · NSW
A 40 m boulder wall beside the Looking Glass, with caves holding the rare eastern blue devil fish and dense sponge…
Diving beneath the Candlestick and Totem Pole – columnar dolerite walls in clean oceanic water.
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