For the wide lens: clear water, big animals and structure. Wrecks, walls and pinnacles with 20 m-plus visibility and sharks, rays, seals or schooling fish recorded.
Updated daily from the directory. 6 sites listed.
1. Eyre Peninsula · SA
Neptune Islands – Great White Shark Cage Diving
The only great white cage diving in Australia, from Port Lincoln.
2. Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA
Aldinga Drop-off
A 10 m limestone cliff riddled with caverns and overhangs in a no-take sanctuary zone – one of the most spectacular dives near Adelaide.
3. Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA
Aldinga Pinnacles
Ten limestone pinnacles with swim-throughs and overhangs, dense relaxed fish and good visibility in a no-take zone.
4. Kangaroo Island · SA
Western River Cove
Kangaroo Island's classic shore dive – colourful reef fish in the shallows and gorgonians and blue groper on the deeper western side.
5. Kangaroo Island · SA
Loch Vennachar Wreck
The scattered iron of a Loch Line clipper that vanished with all hands in 1905, beneath the cliffs at West Bay.
6. Kangaroo Island · SA
Portland Maru Wreck
Boilers, engine and propeller shaft of a 117 m Japanese steamer in 15 m – Kangaroo Island's biggest wreck.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a good wide-angle site?
Visibility above 20 m, something large to frame (a wreck, a wall, a shark) and light: shallow tropical reefs at midday or temperate sites on a winter high-pressure day.
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