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Southern Ocean Exploration

Port Phillip Heads

About this operator

Non-profit wreck exploration / maritime archaeology group, not a shop or charter.

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Trips are subject to current operator schedules and conditions.

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Port Phillip Heads

Brunette

An 1859 Thames-built iron barque and coal hulk – the first vessel scuttled in the Graveyard (1913) – found by Southern Ocean…

Boat (day trip)Up to 70 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Don Diego

The oldest hull in the Graveyard – an 1855 Greenock-built iron barque and coal hulk scuttled in 1916 – bow and stern rising 4 m…

Boat (day trip)Up to 72 m
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Port Phillip Heads

John Nimmo

An 1887 Footscray-built Harbour Trust bucket dredge standing 4–5 m proud in 68 m – possibly the best-preserved wreck in the…

Boat (day trip)Up to 68 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Leeuwin

An 1876 Western District coastal steamer turned coal hulk, scuttled in 1934 and lying in 62 m near the Hygeia – one of the…

Boat (day trip)Up to 62 m
Details need confirmation
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Port Phillip Heads

SS Alert

An upright, largely intact 1877 iron steamer in 75 m, lost with 15 lives in 1893 and found by Southern Ocean Exploration in 2007;…

Boat (day trip)Up to 75 m
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Phillip Island & Western Port

TSS Coramba

A Western District coastal steamer lost with all 17 hands in a 1934 storm, found by Southern Ocean Exploration in 2011 lying…

Boat (day trip)Up to 66 m
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Wilsons Promontory

TSS Kanowna

A 126 m WWI hospital ship and coastal liner lost in fog in 1929, found in 2005 and lying largely recognisable in 80–82 m of clear…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 82 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Werfa

An 1883 Welsh collier, sunk by a US destroyer in Victoria Dock in 1925 and scuttled in 1929 – swim-throughs and a fully intact…

Boat (day trip)Up to 65 m