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.
162 sites · the first 48 shown as cards, the rest listed by state below
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 fan-covered walls with pelagics beside Tijou Reef.
Brisbane & Moreton Bay · QLD
A deep coffee-rock drift at the northern entrance to Moreton Bay with grey nurse sharks, estuary cod and pelagics.
Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island · QLD
Vertical walls draped in soft corals, black coral and elephant-ear sponges, with late-summer glassfish clouds and pygmy…
Dramatic 5–40 m wall with large fan corals and soft corals – the deepest dive on Agincourt 4.
Remote 46 km shelf-edge reef system with steep gorgonian walls, pinnacles from 60 m and pristine coral.
Swain Reefs · QLD
A deep drop-off hung with huge yellow and red gorgonian fans.
Townsville & Magnetic Island · QLD
Outer-edge reef facing the Coral Sea with caves, canyons, walls and swim-throughs in 20–30 m visibility.
Deep, colourful Swains walls to 40 m with pelagic schools – for experienced divers only.
A 100 m-wide blue hole with sheer walls reported to plunge to 90 m – an expedition-only dive.
Twin pinnacles from 60 m to 4 m and 14 m – silvertips, barracuda and a chance of whale sharks.
Remote shelf-edge walls with large fans, soft corals and pelagics.
A fan- and soft-coral-covered wall likened to Osprey's North Horn, open only in rare calm windows.
A deep, intricate rocky wall with good odds of big pelagic fish on clear days.
Rainbow Beach · QLD
Australia's premier grey nurse shark dive and the only known gestation site for the east-coast population, with dozens…
Whitsundays & Bowen · QLD
Vertical wall dropping from 5 m into deep blue water, with fissures, a tunnel, gorgonian fans and winter manta rays.
North Stradbroke Island · QLD
A protected rock complex with four sites – coral gardens, turtle caves, a deep coral bowl and a winter grey nurse shark…
The Swains' most varied reef: a big sheltered lagoon, deep walls to 35 m and a wreck site.
Up to fifteen grey nurse sharks circling through two sandy channels in winter – one of the best shark dives in…
A coral-lined basin that runs from a 10 m rim to 34 m, with turtles, groupers and seasonal sharks.
Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands · QLD
Outer-edge Keppel island with the region's best visibility, terraced ledges to 30 m, tunnels full of big cod, and…
A soft-coral-covered wall dived as a drift with reef sharks and seasonal mantas.
A circular reef and drop-off at the northern limit of southern charters, with sharks, grouper and sea snakes.
An exposed spire off Queensland's easternmost point with colourful caverns and schools of big fish.
Gorgonian fans and sea whips on the drop-offs, caves, eagle rays and a good night dive in the shallows.
A sheer granite wall topped by kelp and a 2 m swim-through, with crayfish, fans and pelagics on Moreton's ocean side.
Cairns · QLD
A 30 m wall with swim-throughs and overhangs beside a shallow garden of staghorn and plate corals; a favourite…
Mackay · QLD
Mackay's best outer reef – walls, canyons and plateaus with barracuda schools, sharks and turtles in 15–25 m visibility.
A shelf-edge wall with excellent visibility and big-fish action – trevally, barracuda, sharks and huge Napoleon wrasse.
Deep, shadowy valleys cut into a near-pristine shelf-edge reef.
A current-fed drift along one of the richest coral walls in the northern Ribbon Reefs, with caverns and reef sharks.
The Keppels' signature advanced dive: walls, crevices and swim-throughs to 30 m inside a long-standing green zone, so…
A rarely visited deep drop-off to 30 m with giant sea fans and black coral trees, two hours beyond Great Keppel.
A deep whip and black coral garden to 30 m off Great Keppel's rarely dived south coast.
Steep, gully-cut outer face of Hardy Reef in clear water, with pelagics along the slope.
Rarely dived shoal with spectacular drop-offs, caves and ravines and masses of pelagic fish.
Steep 5–30 m wall with juvenile grey reef sharks and turtles; often run as a drift.
An easy wall-and-bommie dive covering 3–30 m with cuttlefish, turtles and whitetips.
Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group · QLD
A wall of caves, ledges and swim-throughs to 30 m, decorated with black coral, gorgonians and whips.
A wall of cascading fist coral with a chance of hammerheads cruising past.
The Ribbon Reefs' most reliable summer manta cleaning station, on a wall with big fans and sun-coral trees.
Steep walls with ledges and caves beneath a staghorn-covered reef top, in the Hardy complex.
Gully-cut outer-reef face with clear water, excellent hard-coral shallows and winter mantas.
Heron Island & Capricorn Group · QLD
Heron's occasional special trip: a drop-off with deep walls, big gorgonians and clearer offshore water.
A sheer wall dropping to 30 m on the ocean side of Wistari Reef, with giant gorgonians and pelagics – dived only a few…
The Keppels' signature drift: a sea-whip-lined channel between two islands that ends in shallow boulder swim-throughs.
Shelf-edge point with 30 m+ visibility, a stepped wall dropping into the abyss, and sharks and pelagics working the…
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