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Diving in Western Australia
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WreckPerth
ALC40 & Gay Dragon Wrecks (Bicton)
A WWII landing craft and a sunken junk-style pleasure boat that together are the Swan River's most reliable seahorse site.
WreckMargaret River & Augusta
Agincourt Wreck
An 1863 wooden barque with its cargo of timber sleepers still stacked in the hull, 100 m off the beach in 5 m.
WreckAlbany & Great Southern
Ahwina Tug Wreck (Gull Rock)
A 1936 tug boiler breaking the surface 50 m off a sheltered beach – Albany's easiest wreck snorkel.
WreckPerth
Alkimos Wreck
The collapsed Liberty ship behind Perth's best-known shipwreck legends, with its engine still breaking the surface off Alkimos…
Jetty/PierPerth
Ammo Jetty
Perth's classic easy shore and night dive: century-old pylons encrusted with sponges and corals that hold excellent macro life,…
Freshwater Lake/RiverBroome & Kimberley
Argyle Downs Homestead (Lake Argyle)
A drowned 1880s outback station: windmill, sheds, tractors and petrol bowsers in a Kimberley lake.
ReefNingaloo – Coral Bay
Asho's Gap
Grey reef sharks hovering to be cleaned at a coral outcrop — Coral Bay's must-do dive.
WreckGeraldton & Abrolhos Islands
Batavia Wreck Site (Morning Reef)
Cannons and anchors of the 1629 Batavia – Australia's most notorious shipwreck and mutiny – in 7 m on Morning Reef.
WreckNingaloo – Coral Bay
Benan
A large, clean iron barque wreck with anchors and masts on the reef.
Freshwater Lake/RiverPerth
Blackwall Reach (Swan River)
The deepest shore dive in the lower Swan River, with sunken cars, a barge and breeding cardinalfish below the Blackwall Reach…
ReefNingaloo – Exmouth
Blizzard Ridge
Lighthouse Bay's standout site: a simple reef crack swarming with fish, with turtles, sharks and a manta cleaning station.
Shore/Rock PlatformKalbarri & Shark Bay
Blue Holes (Kalbarri)
Sheltered, fish-filled lagoon pools in a no-fishing protection area, minutes from Kalbarri town.
ReefRowley Shoals
Blue Lagoon (Clerke Reef)
Sheltered lagoons with walls, coral heads and 40 m visibility — the Rowleys' easy classic.
ReefPerth
Boyinaboat Reef
A compact sanctuary-zone reef with passages, ledges and an underwater plaque trail, 100 m off the Hillarys Boat Harbour wall.
Jetty/PierPerth
Bulk Jetty (Kwinana)
A sheltered industrial jetty with gently sloping pylons, heavy encrustation and some very large sea stars; a dependable…
Jetty/PierGeographe Bay & Busselton
Busselton Jetty
A 1.8 km heritage jetty whose end is a forest of sponge- and coral-covered piles at 8 m, with an Underwater Observatory and…
Artificial ReefGeographe Bay & Busselton
Busselton Jetty Underwater Sculpture Park
Thirteen WA artworks on the seabed at 8 m beside Busselton Jetty, visible to snorkellers and slowly becoming reef.
WreckPerth
Carlisle Castle Wreck
The scattered cargo and iron plates of an 1899 barque lost with all hands, on an exposed reef that can be dived only on the…
WreckPerth
Centaur Wreck (Marmion)
Galena cargo and scattered remains of an 1874 iron brig under a reef break, with good shallow swim-throughs nearby.
WreckTurquoise Coast
Cervantes Wreck (Thirsty Point)
The timbers of the 1844 American whaler that gave the town of Cervantes its name.
WreckPerth
Chalmers Wreck
The ballast mound and scattered fittings of an 1874 barque whose captain mistook a bushfire for the Rottnest light.
WreckMargaret River & Augusta
Chaudiere Wreck
An 1863 Sunderland-built barque with stacked sleepers and copper sheathing, the closest wreck to the Hamelin Bay ramp.
WreckAlbany & Great Southern
Cheynes III Wreck
Reputedly the first purpose-sunk dive wreck in the southern hemisphere – a 1943 whale chaser from Australia's last whaling…
WreckNingaloo – Coral Bay
Chofuku Maru
The largest wreck on Ningaloo: propeller, 40 m shaft, engine, boilers and bow on the reef.