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301 dive sites matching “Wreck”Across Australia
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Horseshoe Bay Wrecks (Magnetic Island)

Two shallow modern wrecks – a 40 m burnt-out floating-restaurant ketch and a prawn trawler – in the island's most sheltered bay…

BoatUp to 6 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Hustler 3 Wreck

A small, coral-covered trawler wreck at 22 m that draws schools of sweetlips and snapper.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Japanese Zero wreck (Hammond Island)

A 1942 Japanese Zero fighter in 4 m off Hammond Island – rare WWII aviation history in the shallows.

Boat (day trip)Up to 5 m
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Shipwreck Coast & Warrnambool

John Scott

Iron fastenings and ballast of an 1858 brig in the platform gutters at Bold Projection – a remote heritage snorkel on the…

ShoreUp to 3 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

K'gari Wreck (Roy Rufus Artificial Reef)

The broken, heavily encrusted hull of the 1897 K'gari at 16 m on Hervey Bay's historic artificial reef.

BoatUp to 17 m
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Huon & Far South

Katherine Sharer Wreck

Scattered remains of Tasmania's first major locally built trader, blown up in 1855 – also the site of the state's first sport…

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Kangaroo Island

Kingscote – Fanny M Wreck and Nepean Bay Reef

Anchors and timbers of the 1884 barque Fanny M hidden in a sheltered weedy reef off Kingscote.

Shore or BoatUp to 7 m
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Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Lapwing Wreck (Long Island)

A small, completely intact fishing boat in 32 m, smothered in soft coral and sponges.

Boat (day trip)Up to 32 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

MV Reef Princess Wreck (Wheeler Reef)

Scant remains of the Reef Princess, a timber dive boat lost at Wheeler Reef in a 1981 storm – a footnote to Townsville dive…

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Mandalay Wreck (Mandalay Beach, Walpole)

An occasionally exposed 1911 Norwegian barque wreck on a wild Walpole beach – a heritage walk, not a dive.

ShoreUp to 2 m
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Broome & Kimberley

Manfred Wreck (Lacepede Islands)

An 1879 guano-era barque visible at low tide.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 4 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

Marloo Wreck (K'gari)

Buried remains of a steamer beached in 1914 after striking Sandy Cape Shoal – a K'gari maritime-history site, seldom visible.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Geographe Bay & Busselton

Mary Wreck (Lockeville Jetty)

The mostly buried remains of an 1879 schooner beside the old Lockeville Jetty piles.

ShoreUp to 3 m
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Tasmania North-East

Mayfield (Swan Island wreck)

The largest sailing ship wrecked in Tasmania - a 2285-ton steel four-master off Swan Island.

Boat (day trip)Up to 9 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Mayhill Wreck (Geraldton)

A 100 m spread of iron wreckage from an 1895 loss, 400 m off the Geraldton port entrance.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Kangaroo Island

Montebello Wreck

The flattened remains of a 1906 French steel barque on KI's wild south coast.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Kangaroo Island

Osmanli Wreck (D'Estrees Bay)

Large iron sections of an 1853 steamer on a shallow reef – an early steamship wreck whose 83 people all survived.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Bruny Island & D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Quiet Corner – Natal Queen Wreck

Easy kelp-garden snorkel over the anchors and iron ribs of the 1909 barque Natal Queen.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Rufus King Wreck

The broken stern of a 1942 Liberty ship that grounded carrying bombers and aviation fuel for the Pacific war.

BoatUp to 8 m
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Lord Howe Island

Runic wreck (Middleton Reef)

The fire-blackened hulk of a 13,500-ton ship, landmark of Middleton Reef since 1961.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SS Byron wreck (Redhead)

An undived-since-1996 timber wreck in 40 m off Redhead - an exploration target for technical divers.

BoatUp to 40 m
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Shoalhaven Coast

SS Corangamite

The last traces – ballast blocks and scattered remains – of a large 1886 passenger steamer wrecked in fog.

BoatDepth not recorded
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Central Coast

SS Paterson wreck (Cabbage Tree Bay area)

An easily accessible 1951 wooden-steamer wreck close to the Norah Head boat ramp, in a shallow 8-10 m.

BoatUp to 10 m
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Central Coast

SS Speedwell wreck

An 1884 shipwreck scattered across shallow Bull Reef between Bird Island and Norah Head.

BoatUp to 14 m
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