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Red Boats

Portsea

About this operator

TripAdvisor marks RedBoats Portsea as permanently closed (last review November 2021) and the domain is now an unrelated boating blog.

Directory status: closed. Confirm the business’s current operation before booking.

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Port Phillip Heads

12lb Reef

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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

Auriga

An 1869 iron barque and Harbour Trust hulk, sunk with three gelignite charges in 1930, lying in 57 m 178 m from her fellow barque…

Boat (day trip)Up to 57 m
VICYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

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
VICYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteWreck

Port Phillip Heads

Batman

A compact, easily navigated 1883 hopper barge and one-time Victorian Navy gunboat with a large upright boiler at the bow – the…

Boat (day trip)Up to 46 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
VICYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteWreck

Port Phillip Heads

Beverwijk 19

An upturned Dutch steam dredge with huge dredging cog wheels, boiler and propeller exposed; the last vessel scuttled in the…

Boat (day trip)Up to 46 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,…

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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…

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