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Jetty/PierPort Phillip Heads
Point Lonsdale Jetty
A small pier at the western jaw of The Rip with oceanic-clear water and thick pile growth – seahorses and nudibranchs under the…
Shore/Rock PlatformPort Phillip Heads
Point Lonsdale Light
Clear 1–5 m reef beneath Point Lonsdale lighthouse with juvenile blue groper and sea-nymph meadows – a low-tide snorkel and shore…
Shore/Rock PlatformPerth
Point Peron
Perth's best natural shore dive in the south: limestone pinnacles, arches, caves and swim-throughs in 3–10 m, with sheltered…
ReefJervis Bay
Point Perpendicular Sponge Gardens
Sponge-covered giant boulders from 34 m up to balanced-rock caves and swim-throughs at 5–7 m under the lighthouse cliffs.
Jetty/PierYorke Peninsula
Point Turton Jetty
The lower Yorke Peninsula's go-to sheltered dive and a first-class night dive, with pyjama squid, slipper lobsters and…
Artificial ReefPort Phillip Heads
Popes Eye
An 1880s fort foundation turned marine reserve: a sheltered inner lagoon packed with tame fish, an outer wall of gorgonians and…
Artificial ReefPort Phillip Heads
Popes Eye Anchor Farm
Thirteen historic ships' anchors – Admiralty, Trotman and Rogers Patent patterns recovered during channel deepening – laid out on…
Jetty/PierYorke Peninsula
Port Hughes Jetty
A 417 m 1911 jetty with prolific cowfish, anglerfish, seahorses and weedy seadragons – one of SA's best macro and night dives,…
ReefAdelaide Metro
Port Noarlunga Reef & Jetty
South Australia's most popular shore dive: a sheltered reef lagoon reached by jetty stairs, with an underwater trail, nudibranchs…
ReefAdelaide Metro
Port Noarlunga Reef Underwater Trail
Australia's pioneering 1994 underwater interpretive trail: 12 marked plinths leading from the sheltered lagoon through the Gap to…
Jetty/PierYorke Peninsula
Port Victoria Jetty
A short, pretty jetty dive in a historic windjammer port, best on easterly days, and the base for the Wardang Island wreck trail.
Jetty/PierGeelong & Bellarine
Portarlington Pier
Sheltered north-facing Bellarine pier, reachable by ferry from Melbourne, with reliable seahorses and small artificial reefs off…
Shore/Rock PlatformPortland & the West
Portland Lee Breakwater
Portland's sheltered training and night dive: seadragons in the seagrass, conger eels, crays and nudibranchs along a kilometre of…
WreckKangaroo Island
Portland Maru Wreck
Boilers, engine and propeller shaft of a 117 m Japanese steamer in 15 m – Kangaroo Island's biggest wreck.
WallPort Phillip Heads
Portsea Back Beach Wall
An east–west calcarenite wall in Bass Strait off Portsea back beach with swim-throughs, unafraid crayfish walking in the open,…
WallPort Phillip Heads
Portsea Hole
A 75 m vertical calcarenite wall from 12 m to 27 m with a sand bowl to 33 m, 500 m off Portsea Pier – sixteen sponge species,…
WreckPort Phillip Heads
Portsea Hole Wreck
A 13 m fishing boat scuttled in the early 1980s at 26 m beside Portsea Hole, now a sponge-covered fish shelter and the natural…
Jetty/PierMornington Peninsula
Portsea Pier
The most reliable bay-side weedy seadragon pier, with clean ocean-flushed water, kelp at the head and adjoining reefs; superb…
DriftNingaloo – Coral Bay
Purdy Point
An easy, no-boat drift over staghorn and cabbage coral straight back to town.
WallJervis Bay
Pyramid Rock (Bowen Island)
Hundreds of sea whips each hosting tiger anemones beneath a 100 m wall at the pyramid rock.
DriftPort Phillip Heads
Quarantine Station Reef
A 12–22 m ridge off the historic Point Nepean Quarantine Station strewn with six anchors and a century of discarded ship's china,…
WreckPort Phillip Heads
RMS Australia
The boilers, shafts and plating of a 142 m P&O mail steamer that struck Corsair Rock in 1904, strewn over 300 m of reef in 3–8 m…
WreckPerth
RMS Orizaba Wreck
The boilers, engine and steering gear of a 140 m Orient liner wrecked in 1905, swarming with fish on shallow Five Fathom Bank.
WreckFar Northern Reef & Torres Strait
RMS Quetta wreck
A coral-encrusted 1890 royal mail steamer teeming with fish, often compared with the Yongala – dived only at slack water.