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301 dive sites matching “Wreck”Across Australia
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Yorke Peninsula

SS Pareora Wreck

Boiler, engine, anchor and windlass of a 1919 zinc-laden steamer that took 11 lives, lying in a reef gully on remote Althorpe…

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SS Shamrock wreck (Catherine Hill Bay)

A shallow collier wreck off Catherine Hill Bay beach whose exposure changes with every big sea.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Tasmania North & North-West

SS Southern Cross (Boat Rock)

Stern and propeller of an 1863 Clyde-built steamer lost in bushfire smoke in 1889.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Tekapo wreck (South Maroubra)

Shallow scattered remains of an 89 m passenger steamer lost in fog in 1899; its huge anchor is a monument at North Maroubra.

Shore or BoatUp to 7 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

St Paul Wreck

A 1912 French steamer lost with 18 lives in 1914, with twin boilers, engine and propeller intact at 38-43 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 43 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Stockton Breakwall wrecks

Several historic wrecks piled along the Stockton breakwall, including the 1866 Cawarra disaster, in water under 8 m.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SV Berbice wreck (Stockton Beach)

An 1888 British sailing ship, whose crew were saved by breeches buoy, uncovered by the sand in 2018 in 5 m off Stockton Beach.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SV Durisdeer wreck (Stockton Beach)

An 1864 iron barquentine lying on its side in 5 m off Stockton Beach, with its iron masts pointing out to sea.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Tambaroora Wreck (Polmaise Reef)

Scattered remains of an 1879 steamer in 8 m on a remote reef, home to wobbegongs and nurse sharks.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 8 m
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Perth

The Coombe Deep Wrecks (Swan River)

A deep, very dark river dive to two unidentified wrecks in 19–22 m, a genuine test of low-visibility skills.

ShoreUp to 22 m
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Perth

The Coombe Shallow Wrecks (Swan River)

A cluster of small timber boat wrecks within easy reach of a grassy kit-up area on the Swan River.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Port Macquarie & Camden Haven

The Titan (Camden Haven wreck)

An unusual upside-down crane vessel wreck at 35-40 m, gradually being colonised by sponges and corals — a genuine insider's dive.

BoatUp to 40 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

The Trio wreck

A 50 m ferro-cement barge upright in 51 m off Mona Vale, discovered in 1988 and still rarely visited.

BoatUp to 54 m
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Shipwreck Coast & Warrnambool

Thistle, Port Fairy

Timbers of the Henty family's Indian-built brigantine, which carried the first settlers to Portland Bay in 1834, in the wading…

ShoreUp to 3 m
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Shipwreck Coast & Warrnambool

Thunder Point

The wildest of Warrnambool's shore dives: isolated reefs on a sloping seafloor to 20 m off a thundering headland, on the edge of…

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Tryall Wreck (Tryal Rocks)

Australia's oldest known shipwreck (1622), with cannons and anchors in 6 m.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 8 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

TSS Belbowrie wreck (South Maroubra)

Scattered iron and brass from a 1911 timber steamer wrecked in a southerly gale in 1939, on the same point as the Tekapo.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Central Coast

TSS Nerong wreck

A rarely dived deep technical wreck 5 km east of Norah Head, lost in a 1917 gale.

BoatUp to 45 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Two Caves Wreck

Broken-up remains of a Sri Lankan asylum-seeker boat – engines with a hull section beneath – on a reef with two caves.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Turquoise Coast

Vergulde Draeck Wreck (Gilt Dragon)

The 1656 VOC shipwreck whose lost survivors prompted the first charts of the Perth coast.

Boat (day trip)Up to 8 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Wreck Beach (Great Keppel Island)

A quiet far-side bay with a 2 m-high brain coral thought to be around 420 years old.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m
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Coral Sea

Wreck of the Atlas (Bougainville Reef)

A shallow, coral-covered 1945 freighter wreck spread across Bougainville's reef top and slope.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 15 m
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Coral Sea

Wreck Reef (HMS Porpoise and Cato wreck sites)

The 1803 wreck sites of Matthew Flinders' HMS Porpoise and the Cato, on a remote reef with outstanding visibility.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 25 m
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Port Douglas

Wreck Site (Agincourt Reef 3)

Clear sandy lagoon with 12 m pinnacles and the coral-covered remains of a fishing boat in the shallows.

Boat (day trip)Up to 24 m