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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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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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Sydney South & Botany Bay

South Maroubra

Belbowrie wreckage and old bottles among a boulder maze with more than fifty fish species, including Sydney's biggest dusky…

Shore or BoatUp to 15 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – Cleaner Station

A natural cleaning station with long-resident, well-known turtle and groper 'characters', plus excellent macro life including…

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – Shark Gutters

A shallow, swim-through gutter that has historically been one of the most productive grey nurse shark sites at South Solitary…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Sydney Harbour

Sow and Pigs Reef

Circumnavigate the harbour's most notorious ship-trap – a beacon-ringed reef with overhangs and swim-throughs in 4–8 m in…

BoatUp to 8 m
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Jervis Bay

Spider Cave

An 80–100 m cave with three stacked entrances leading up under the cliff to a far end at 7 m.

BoatUp to 30 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Stenhouse Bay Jetty

Clear-water jetty with basket stars and gorgonians rarely seen elsewhere on the peninsula, an upturned Ford Telstar and the…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Stepping Stones (Bait Reef)

A line of 18+ vertical-sided, flat-topped coral pinnacles with caves and channels, gorgonian-covered walls and superb snorkelling…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Shoalhaven Coast

TSS Merimbula

Two triple-expansion engines, twin boilers, shafts, winch and anchor of a 1928 coastal passenger steamer in 4–14 m.

Shore or BoatUp to 14 m
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Jervis Bay

TSS Wandra

Boiler, twin engines, shafts and propellers of a 1915 timber steamer beside the Drum and Drumsticks seal colony.

BoatUp to 28 m
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Bermagui & Tathra

Tathra Wharf

Thousands of colourful gorgonians on the reef north of an 1878 ocean wharf – regarded as the best gorgonian display south of the…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Central Coast

Terrigal Haven

The Central Coast's most accessible and heavily used dive site — a sheltered bay doubling as training ground and boat-charter…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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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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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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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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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 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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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
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Jervis Bay

The Nursery

Exceptionally dense fish schools on a shallow, sheltered reef – ideal for training, photography and night dives.

BoatUp to 14 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

The Pines

A 500 m coffee-rock wall best dived as a drift on the incoming tide, packed with wobbegongs, turtles and schooling fish.

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

The Split (Royal National Park)

A 4 m deep, 2 m wide crack splitting a kelp reef at 22 m, with pygmy pipehorses, upside-down pipefish and visibility up to 35 m.

BoatUp to 28 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Steps (Kurnell)

Sydney's definitive weedy seadragon dive – a sand edge at 10–15 m below superb boulder sponge gardens, opposite Bare Island.

ShoreUp to 15 m