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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Albany & Great Southern

Cheynes III Wreck

Reputedly the first purpose-sunk dive wreck in the southern hemisphere – a 1943 whale chaser from Australia's last whaling…

Boat (day trip)Up to 23 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Clovelly Pool / Clovelly Bay

Sydney's classic training and night-dive inlet with tame blue gropers and dense fish schools in 10–15 m visibility.

ShoreUp to 11 m
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Jervis Bay

Crocodile Head

A huge L-shaped arch rising from 5–7 m to 20 m above the surface, caves and plentiful blue devilfish.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Rottnest Island

Crystal Palace

Rottnest's signature cavern reef: hundreds of metres of limestone chambers and swim-throughs lit by light shafts and full of…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Darwin Harbour

DK 06 Ham Luong

A small, upright refugee boat packed with fish, in reach of two other wrecks on the same dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Batemans Bay

Dragon Rock (Tollgate Islands)

Close encounters with resting grey nurse sharks in a shallow, sheltered gutter inside a marine park sanctuary zone.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Jervis Bay

Drum and Drumsticks

Playful fur seals, a large swim-through cave and old practice bombs on a multilevel reef beside the Wandra wreck.

BoatUp to 30 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Dunbar wreck (South Head)

The resting place of Sydney's worst shipwreck (121 lives, 1857): ballast blocks, copper sheathing, anchors and fragments of china…

BoatUp to 7 m
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Turquoise Coast

Europa Wreck (Three Breaks Reef)

An 1897 iron barque on a reef with a cargo field of bottles, a swim-through and a natural sink to 14 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Sunshine Coast

Ex-HMAS Brisbane

Queensland's great destroyer wreck – 133 m, upright, funnels 3 m below the surface and 1000+ species – now with a…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Exmouth Navy Pier

Consistently rated among the world's top pier dives: a Defence-protected forest of pylons packed with big groper, sharks and…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Fairy Bower

The dusky whaler side of Cabbage Tree Bay – a quiet, shallow wall-and-kelp reef along the Manly promenade that comes alive at…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – The Pinnacle

A twin-peaked pinnacle rising to 6-8 m with a resident grey nurse shark aggregation in the sand gutter below and a turtle resting…

BoatUp to 35 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Freshwater (Harbord)

Sea dragons, sharks and an outer reef with 3.5 m walls off an ocean rock platform – the Northern Beaches' best and most demanding…

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Gordons Bay

Australia's first underwater nature trail – a 620 m chain loop around a sheltered bay that makes a foolproof training or night…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney Harbour

Green Point (Camp Cove)

Overhangs, small caves and a boulder field to 15–19 m off the Camp Cove headland – the deepest shore dive inside the harbour's…

ShoreUp to 19 m
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Batemans Bay

Guerilla Bay

Easy, sheltered shore dive with a small island to circle, big stingrays and good night diving.

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Albany & Great Southern

HMAS Perth Wreck

A 133 m Vietnam-veteran destroyer sitting upright in 35 m with its bridge, gun mount and engine room intact, plus an interpretive…

Boat (day trip)Up to 35 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Hadda Wreck (Beacon Island)

Iron knees of an 1877 guano barque amid lush coral gardens in a sanctuary zone near Beacon Island.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 6 m
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Port Douglas

Harry's Bommie (Agincourt Reef 4)

Instructors' favourite garden of pinnacles regularly visited by juvenile grey reef sharks and occasionally mantas.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Eden & Green Cape

Henry Bolte

A broken but intriguing tug wreck with a high stern section full of nannygai, propeller and towing winch, beside the Tasman…

BoatUp to 25 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Henry Head (Botany Bay)

Boulders, ledges and swim-throughs under some of Sydney's best sponge gardens, sheltered in a north-easterly and only 1 km from…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Hougomont Wreck

A dismasted 1897 four-masted barque of the Erikson grain fleet, scuttled as a breakwater with bow and stern still upright in 9 m…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Indian Point (Congwong Bay)

A 9–15 m wall cut by thirteen gutters with seadragons, red Indianfish and seahorses, a few hundred metres from Bare Island and…

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m