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Diveline Scuba Centre

Frankston

A Victorian business associated with technical training and gas support alongside recreational courses.

About this operator

Diveline is associated with technical training and gas support alongside recreational courses, which places it among the Victorian businesses relevant to divers progressing past recreational limits.

Victoria has one of Australia's most developed technical diving communities, and the reason is geography. Port Phillip Heads has walls beginning at around twelve metres and continuing beyond ninety. The Ships' Graveyard outside the bay contains numerous deliberately scuttled vessels across a wide depth range. That terrain gives Victorian divers a genuine reason to train past recreational limits, and it sustains the instructors, gas blending and equipment support that make the training available.

Oxygen fills are documented alongside air and Nitrox, which is a meaningful distinction. Recreational enriched air support requires a compressor, a blending system and an analyser; high-oxygen decompression gas support requires oxygen-clean cylinders, oxygen-compatible regulators and staff trained to handle them. They are different capabilities and a business offering EAN32 does not automatically offer the second.

The recreational side covers the ordinary needs of Melbourne divers: certification, continuing education, equipment and the fills that make regular diving practical.

For technical divers, the specifics matter more than the label. Establish separately: the technical agency and maximum course level; whether helium and Trimix are blended on site and how reliable supply currently is; which CCR units are supported and whether sorb is stocked; whether cylinders can be oxygen cleaned and hydrostatically tested in-house; and stage cylinder hire availability.

Helium availability in particular should be treated as time-sensitive everywhere in Australia — global supply fluctuates, and a business blending Trimix last season may not be doing so this month.

Victorian technical divers should treat helium as a trip-planning variable rather than a given. Supply fluctuates globally, prices move, and the sensible approach is to confirm availability close to the date rather than assume it from an earlier conversation.

Listed services

Service information is recorded from operator research. Availability and requirements should be confirmed directly.

  • Air fills
  • Servicing
  • Nitrox fills
  • Oxygen Fills
  • Equipment sales
  • Beginner training
  • Technical training
  • Continuing education

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Trips are subject to current operator schedules and conditions.

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Port Phillip Heads

12lb Reef

A short, overhang-riddled wall at 8–20 m on the edge of Lonsdale Bight named for a 12-pound crayfish – soft corals, caves and big…

BoatUp to 20 m
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Port Phillip Heads

16lb Reef

Overhangs and small drop-offs at 12–18 m at the ocean end of Lonsdale Wall, named for a legendary 16-pound crayfish and known for…

BoatUp to 18 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Artefacts Flood

Flood-tide drift over the Ticonderoga Bay anchorage where a century of quarantine-station ships threw their bottles and china…

BoatUp to 15 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Awesome Reef

A 'spectacular' deep reef formation off Shortland Bluff at 12–40 m beside the shipping channel, paired with Knawesome Bommie –…

BoatUp to 40 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Back Beach Cray Reef

Long ledges and overhangs packed with crayfish a kilometre off the Sorrento back beach.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Balnarring Reef

Sheltered, shallow reef patches ideal for a first Western Port dive or snorkel; quiet beach with facilities.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Beacon Reef, Daveys Bay

Boulder-and-slab reef marked by a beacon, full of crevice life; easy, sheltered beginner and snorkel dive.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Birdrock Beach, Mount Martha

Reef around a seabird stack with seahorses, big crabs and eagle rays; a natural-reef alternative to the piers.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Blairgowrie Pier

Victoria's premier pier dive: sponge-covered pylons, 100+ nudibranch species, seahorses, four octopus species and cuttlefish,…

ShoreUp to 7 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Boarfish Reef

Multi-site reef in Lonsdale Bight with caves, swim-throughs, a 4 m upright admiralty anchor in 10 m and a 400 m sponge garden…

BoatUp to 25 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Boarfish Reef Drift

Float-line drift across the Boarfish Reef sponge gardens and outcrops off Queenscliff – no navigation, no kicking, several…

BoatUp to 32 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Bridgewater Bay, Blairgowrie

Two dives from one beach – the sea cave and ledges of The Bridge and the long reef of Koreen Point; a sandy exit makes it one of…

ShoreUp to 8 m