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Diving in New South Wales

Explore 685 listed dive sites and find the local knowledge to help plan your visit.

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Ballina & Evans Head6 sitesBatemans Bay30 sitesBermagui & Tathra6 sitesCentral Coast44 sitesCoffs Harbour & Solitary Islands38 sitesEden & Green Cape21 sitesForster & Seal Rocks27 sitesJervis Bay47 sitesLord Howe Island49 sitesMerimbula9 sitesNambucca & Urunga4 sitesNarooma & Montague Island16 sitesNewcastle & Lake Macquarie35 sitesPort Macquarie & Camden Haven19 sitesPort Stephens22 sitesShoalhaven Coast10 sitesSouth West Rocks21 sitesSydney Harbour33 sitesSydney Northern Beaches52 sitesSydney South & Botany Bay113 sitesTweed & Byron Bay21 sitesUlladulla19 sitesWollongong & Kiama37 sitesYamba & Iluka6 sites

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Wollongong & Kiama

Afghan Reef

Kelp-covered reef and wall below the Kiama Blowhole with good schools and sea dragons, and a safe ramp exit.

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Anchor Reef (Kurnell)

Wall, boulder gully and two good swim-throughs with sea dragons on the sand, just 600 m south of The Leap and rarely dived.

BoatUp to 23 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Astrolabe Cove / La Perouse Bay

A sheltered shallow drift beside the Bare Island bridge with seahorses, pineapplefish and blue-ringed octopus – the quiet macro…

ShoreUp to 10 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

Jervis Bay

Aztec Reef

Rocks patterned with 'Aztec' algal designs, sea dragons including juveniles, and huge fish schools.

BoatUp to 20 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the sitePinnacle/Bommie

Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – Ballina Rock

The best chance of the rare Ballina angelfish, in a boulder field at the foot of a surface-breaking bommie with Galapagos sharks…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – Observatory Rock

Drift through 5–8 m rock stacks and caves packed with lobsters, with Galapagos sharks circling on the safety stop and a chance of…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – South East Rock

Easy-profile Balls Pyramid dive on a boulder and ledge shelf with lobster-filled overhangs and plate coral – long bottom times in…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Sydney Harbour

Balmoral Baths

Dozens of White's seahorses on the net of a Middle Harbour swimming enclosure in under 5 m – Sydney's easiest and most famous…

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island

Sydney's premier shore dive and macro site – Indianfish, pygmy pipehorses, seahorses and anglerfish on sponge reef beside an…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – 15 Metre Reef

A low sponge ridge at 14–16 m that is Bare Island's best pygmy pipehorse and nudibranch hunting ground, with Sea Horse Rock and…

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Deep Wall

Bare Island's deepest and most colourful route – a 3 m+ wall at 15–19 m linking the Big Rock, cable gully, 15 Metre Reef and…

Shore or BoatUp to 19 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Isolated Reefs

Two sponge-smothered reefs alone on the sand at 15–19 m, with kingfish, giant flathead, seahorses and anglerfish – Bare Island's…

ShoreUp to 19 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Left (Eastern Side)

The easiest Bare Island route – a 6–12 m reef edge with a canyon and cave, seadragons and pygmy pipehorses, ideal for training…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Barrens Hut (Royal National Park)

Southern Sydney's classic wall dive: a life-covered drop-off to 28 m with The Cave, a swim-through Tunnel and friendly blue…

BoatUp to 28 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the sitePinnacle/Bommie

Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Bommie

Pinnacle with a sheer southern wall and massive schools of yellowtail, seapike and nannygai.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Gravel Loader

Shallow, sheltered jetty dive with a resident group of grey nurse sharks and outstanding night diving.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Island South

A big sponge-and-gorgonian-covered vertical wall and steep boulder slope with dense schools in the shallows.

BoatUp to 32 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bass and Flinders Point (Cronulla)

Easy shallow entry and, every October, well over 100 newly hatched Port Jackson sharks on the sand.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Forster & Seal Rocks

Bennett's Head Bommie

A shallow, isolated bommie with a small cave, excellent visibility and an unusually dense and varied small-scale marine life list.

BoatUp to 10 m
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Forster & Seal Rocks

Big Seal Rock

A major grey nurse shark aggregation site — the Eastern Gutter has recorded more than 40 sharks at once — with a genuine…

BoatUp to 45 m
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Batemans Bay

Black Rock Drift

One drift that strings together Black Rock's sand gutter, walls, The Arch and the long low cave under the rock.

BoatUp to 20 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

Wollongong & Kiama

Blind Shark Reef

Resident blind sharks in the overhangs and sea dragons on the sand, a minute from Kiama Harbour.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Bluefish Point

A sponge-covered vertical wall from 5 to 22 m with cuttlefish, sea dragons, kingfish and seasonal grey nurse sharks, 15 minutes…

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Bluefish Valley

A year-round grey nurse shark colony in a sheltered 7 m valley that Open Water divers can do – Manly's answer to Magic Point.

BoatUp to 16 m