Go Dive Tasmania

Go Dive Tasmania provides training, equipment and servicing for Tasmanian divers, supporting a cold-water diving community in one of the most dramatic temperate environments in the country.

Tasmanian diving is not Great Barrier Reef diving with colder water — the environment, equipment and planning are fundamentally different. Dolerite sea caves, sheer walls, giant kelp, sponge gardens of extraordinary colour and deep wrecks, in water that runs eleven to eighteen degrees.

That temperature shapes everything. A thick wetsuit or drysuit changes weighting, buoyancy, trim, mobility, gas consumption and task loading simultaneously, and a diver certified entirely in warm water is managing several new variables at once. An orientation dive with a local instructor is a genuinely sensible first step rather than an upsell.

Equipment support matters correspondingly more. Drysuit seals and zips fail, regulators need to work reliably in twelve-degree water, and a diver whose suit is in for repair is not diving. Servicing turnaround is a practical constraint on how much diving happens.

Local diving around Hobart includes the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Bruny Island — sheltered relative to the open coast, with jetties, reef systems and the critically endangered spotted handfish in specific areas. The Tasman Peninsula and Bicheno are the headline destinations, within reach for day and weekend trips.

Drysuit hire sizing is the practical constraint that catches out visiting divers in Tasmania. Specialist sizes are not always held, and confirming availability before flying rather than on arrival is the difference between diving and watching.