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Adelaide Metro

Seacliff Reef

Adelaide's most highly rated natural reef: a curving ancient shoreline with gutters and ledges and 'thousands of fish'.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Second Reef (Lady Elliot Island)

A shallow branching-coral ridge on the edge of the western sand patch, busy with turtles, rays and trevally.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

Second Valley

Small caves and a right-angled swim-through in folded cliffs, with occasional seadragons, at one of the Fleurieu's most scenic…

ShoreUp to 9 m
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Perth

Sepia Wreck

An 1898 iron barque whose stern hold still holds hundreds of neatly stacked bottles and barrels.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Severance Wreck (Lady Elliot Island)

A coral-encrusted 16 m yacht on sand at 21 m, home to sweetlips and grouper, with mantas passing overhead.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Shag Rock

A sheltered rock with a swim-through cave linking both sides – Straddie's go-to dive for beginners, macro and night dives.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Shark Alley (Flat Rock)

Up to fifteen grey nurse sharks circling through two sandy channels in winter – one of the best shark dives in Queensland.

Boat (day trip)Up to 35 m
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Rottnest Island

Shark Cave

Protected grey nurse sharks resting in an arc-shaped cave at 24-26 m off the West End - Rottnest's premier shark dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 26 m
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Rottnest Island

Shark Hopper Barge (Henrietta Rocks)

A 1939 hopper barge sitting partly out of the water a few strokes from the beach - an easy and photogenic wreck snorkel.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Cairns

Shark Mountain (Norman Reef)

A coral mountain range with resident grey reef sharks and a small fishing-boat wreck at 14 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Shark Point (Clovelly)

Boulder field, walls and a 26 m reef edge dense with sponge life, blue devils and seadragons – the best shore dive in the…

Shore or BoatUp to 26 m
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Lord Howe Island

Shearwater Island

Shallow finger reefs with hard coral cover rivalling the Great Barrier Reef, 40 m visibility and long bottom times.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Shelly Beach / Cabbage Tree Bay (Manly)

NSW's most popular shore dive – a no-take reserve where tame blue groper, wobbegongs, PJ sharks and summer dusky whalers crowd a…

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Shiprock (Port Hacking)

Sydney's iconic high-tide estuary dive: a wall dropping to 15 m with bommies, a bubble cave, prolific protected fish and superb…

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Tasmania North & North-West

Simmos Reef (Shag Rock)

A figure-6 bommie from 25 m to 4 m with sea pens, dumpling squid and 25 m visibility.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Shoalhaven Coast

Sir John Young Banks

Remote offshore banks with walls to 50 m, pristine colourful sessile life and pelagic sharks including hammerheads.

Boat (day trip)Up to 50 m
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Tasmania North & North-West

Sisters Island (North East Bommie)

An easy bommie circumnavigation in gutters of kelp, gorgonians and nudibranchs, often in 20 m visibility.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Tasman Peninsula

Sisters Rocks

Vertical walls that bloom with sponges, sea whips and anemones below 30 m; regarded as one of Australia's best temperate wall…

Boat (day trip)Up to 45 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Six Fathom Reef (Port Hacking)

Sheltered bad-weather reef at the mouth of Port Hacking with stepped walls and huge schools of pomfret and bullseyes.

BoatUp to 27 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Ski Run

A sand chute from the reef edge down to a glassfish-covered bommie hunted by trevally, with whitetips and extra-long garden eels…

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Central Coast

Skillion Cave (Terrigal)

A rock-slab-roofed gutter dropping to almost 20 m beneath The Skillion, rated among the best shore dives in NSW, with resident…

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m
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Norfolk Island

Slaughter Bay

Sheltered sand-and-coral lagoon snorkel beside Kingston, with night snorkelling possible and the Sirius wreck site beyond the…

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Slipper Reef

A bay-like amphitheatre around the mooring, wobbegong caves and a colourful vertical reef edge.

BoatUp to 29 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Snake Pit

Reliable, curious olive sea snakes, schools of eagle rays in winter and plenty of sharks on an isolated patch reef.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m