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2,855 dive sitesAcross Australia
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Sydney Northern Beaches

The Apartments (Long Reef)

Grey nurse sharks cruising a sandstone gutter 35 minutes from Manly, with the Cathedral tunnel and stacked 'apartment' blocks…

BoatUp to 21 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

The Aquarium (Lady Musgrave Lagoon)

Step off the pontoon into a sheltered lagoon of turtle cleaning stations, giant clams and juvenile fish – ideal for first dives,…

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

The Arch (Bass Point)

Swim-through arch on a seaward ridge plus a two-chamber cave guarded by a large bull ray; winter Port Jackson shark aggregations.

Shore or BoatUp to 26 m
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Batemans Bay

The Arch (Black Rock)

A long, low arch at the edge of a sandy amphitheatre, with friendly blue groper and cuttlefish.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Jervis Bay

The Arch (Jervis Bay)

An underwater stone 'bridge' at 37 m in a deep gully, with a 100 m vertical wall, 25–30 m visibility and winter Port Jackson…

BoatUp to 40 m
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Lord Howe Island

The Arch (Lord Howe)

A swim-through arch made of coral – unique in NSW – with sweetlips inside and Galapagos sharks around.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Balcony (Royal National Park)

A balcony-like underwater wall and boulder swim-throughs that are always packed with fish; whale and sunfish encounters in spring.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Lady Elliot Island

The Blowhole (Lady Elliot Island)

Swim through an L-shaped cave from 14 m to 22 m and watch silvertip sharks being cleaned outside.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

The Bluff (Rosetta Head)

Arguably the most reliable leafy seadragon dive in South Australia, among stacked granite boulders below a historic whaling…

ShoreUp to 18 m
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North Stradbroke Island

The Bowl (Flat Rock)

A coral-lined basin that runs from a 10 m rim to 34 m, with turtles, groupers and seasonal sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 34 m
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Tasmania East Coast

The Canyon (Bicheno)

A 20 m-wide canyon with a 15 m sponge-covered wall, boulder swim-throughs and the local masked garden gnome.

Boat (day trip)Up to 37 m
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Tasmania East Coast

The Castle (Bicheno)

A 30 m tunnel between two granite boulders at 25 m, packed with crayfish and lined with sea whips and zoanthids.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Port Phillip Heads

The Cave (Lonsdale Wall)

A truck-sized cavern in the face of Lonsdale Wall at 30 m, at the ocean end of the system – ebb-slack only, shipping permitting,…

BoatUp to 60 m
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Sunshine Coast

The Caves (Gneerings)

A shallow 12 m ledge with overhangs and small swim-throughs – schools of surgeonfish, wobbegongs and ray cleaning stations; ideal…

BoatUp to 12 m
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Port Douglas

The Chapel (Agincourt Reef 4)

Swim-throughs, dense anemone fields with clownfish, and grey reef sharks on a compact patch reef.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Batemans Bay

The Chimney (Black Rock)

Short cave from a sand gutter that exits vertically through the reef top.

BoatUp to 21 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Colours (Inner & Outer)

Sydney's most colourful deep wall: 22 m reef top dropping to 30 m+ under blankets of sponge and gorgonian, with schools that can…

BoatUp to 35 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Cutting (Royal National Park)

A shore crevice continuing underwater into a vertical 17–10 m step, big boulders and a resident large black ray.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Jervis Bay

The Docks

A compact cluster of caves and swim-throughs – Double Decker, Vertical Swim-through, Long Cave – with sea dragons, blue devils…

BoatUp to 21 m
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Port Phillip Heads

The Far Side

A sheer north-facing wall in the middle of the entrance channel, 18 m to 40 m and beyond, whose shaded overhangs show their…

BoatUp to 60 m
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Port Douglas

The Gap (Agincourt Reef 3)

Shallow gutter drift beside a reef wall riddled with grottos; big sweetlips schools and groper.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Gap (South Head)

Room-sized boulders, caves and swim-throughs directly under The Gap cliffs, with schooling kingfish and a sheltered aspect in…

BoatUp to 23 m
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Port Douglas

The Gardens (Agincourt Reef 2)

Bright, shallow boulder-coral garden with excellent visibility; often done as an effortless drift.

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Gullies / Underwater Wilderness

A 3–5 m wide north–south gully, swim-throughs and 'The Marble' – a giant boulder that rolls in its rock cauldron – with hundreds…

BoatUp to 22 m