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2,855 dive sitesAcross Australia
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Coral Sea

Golden Wall (Holmes Reef)

A sheer wall glowing with golden sea whips and gorgonians, with pelagic schools off the edge.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Cairns

Golf Clubs (Hastings Reef)

A wrap-around hard-coral reef right beside the boat, sheltered from rare strong westerlies.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves

Goulden's Hole

The classic CDAA training sinkhole – compact, clear below a 15 m thermocline and easy to plan around.

ShoreUp to 26 m
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East Arnhem Land & Gove

Gove Town Wharf

Pylons crowded with nudibranchs, flatworms, decorator crabs and feather stars, with big schools of fish under the wharf – Gove's…

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Geelong & Bellarine

Governor Reef

Shallow natural shoal off Indented Head with a southern drop-off and squid on top; a boat snorkel and easy dive when southerlies…

Shore or BoatUp to 4 m
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Lord Howe Island

Gower Pinnacle

Deep pinnacle with schooling spangled emperor, huge kingfish and Meredith's and conspicuous angelfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Adelaide Metro

Grange Tyre Reef

An old Fisheries Department tyre reef 4 km off Grange where weedy seadragons are occasionally seen.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Great Australian Bight (Thevenard)

Nudibranch-rich bommies close to Thevenard.

BoatUp to 8 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Great Detached Reef

Remote 46 km shelf-edge reef system with steep gorgonian walls, pinnacles from 60 m and pristine coral.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Jervis Bay

Green Patch

Calm, family-friendly beach with octopus and squid around the rock platforms, beside a national park campground.

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Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay

Green Point, Brighton

Easy reef dive beside Brighton Beach station with simple navigation; a good beginner and night site minutes from the bathing…

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Green Wheely Bin Reef (North Head)

An out-of-the-way wall and boulder gully at the tip of North Head with an old Admiralty anchor and, on one occasion, sixty…

BoatUp to 28 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Greg's Grotto

Colourful caves and ledges with sharks.

BoatUp to 14 m
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Gold Coast

Gretas Reef

Parallel boulder lines and colourful bommies at 16-20 m, with dolphins and sharks sometimes feeding on baitfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Eyre Peninsula

Grindal Island – Sea Lions

An alternative sea lion swim venue in Lincoln National Park, with boulder bommies and swim-throughs on its south-side reefs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Kalbarri & Shark Bay

Gudrun Wreck (Cape Peron)

A rarely dived 1901 wreck in a Shark Bay sanctuary zone, rich with groper and lionfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m
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Phillip Island & Western Port

Gull Island (Bird Rock)

Sheltered, shallow rock in the lee of Cape Woolamai with colourful crevices and a circumnavigation any Open Water diver can…

BoatUp to 8 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Gulliver's

An easy, fishy ridge reef completing the Lighthouse Bay trio; ideal first dive of the day.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Port Phillip Heads

H.C. Piggot

A 1912 Paisley-built hopper barge broken in two – the forward half standing proud with anchor, hatch coaming and open deck beams…

Boat (day trip)Up to 48 m
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Port Phillip Heads

HMAS Bayonet

An Attack-class patrol boat scuttled in 1999 and found in 2001 – upright and clean in 82 m off Cape Schanck with waterline marks…

Boat (day trip)Up to 82 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

HMAS Warrnambool wreck

Intact 1947 WWII corvette on its port side in 25 m – the only RAN ship lost to a mine.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 25 m
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Norfolk Island

HMS Sirius wreck site

The remains of the First Fleet flagship, lost off Slaughter Bay in 1790 – Australia's most significant colonial shipwreck.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Coral Sea

Half Way Wall (Osprey Reef)

Osprey's gentler wall, with bommies on the lip of a 1,000 m drop and the chance of hammerheads.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Halfway Island (Keppels)

A sheltered staghorn coral garden in 7 m, busy with small fish, feather stars and sea snakes.

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m