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Shore/Rock PlatformNingaloo – Exmouth
Oyster Stacks
Oyster-encrusted rock stacks swarming with fish a few metres from shore.
ReefGold Coast
Palm Beach Reef
The Gold Coast's largest reef – about ten sites, the area's best visibility and summer leopard sharks.
WallCairns
Petaj Mooring (Milln Reef)
Resident turtles and whitetip sharks on a wall with a swim-through; a favourite liveaboard night dive.
WreckCocos (Keeling) Islands
Phaeton Wreck
An 1868 composite barque burnt and run aground in 1889, its iron-framed bow and midships still upright in 4 m – snorkel through…
Pinnacle/BommieCairns
Plate Top (Norman Reef)
A massive coral range off the main reef where fish crowd the northern corner at low tide.
DriftNingaloo – Coral Bay
Purdy Point
An easy, no-boat drift over staghorn and cabbage coral straight back to town.
ReefWhitsundays & Bowen
Reefworld Pontoon (Hardy Reef)
Permanent outer-reef pontoon with a wall of ledges and caves, tame giant groper and Maori wrasse, observatory and overnight…
WallCocos (Keeling) Islands
Rose Wall
A continuous sheet of rose-coloured hard coral covering the wall from about 16 m to 35–40 m, right beside Cabbage Patch.
Pinnacle/BommieLord Howe Island
Rupert's Reef
Compact pinnacle packed with Lord Howe endemics – doubleheaders, McCulloch's anemonefish – plus a resident green turtle.
WreckCocos (Keeling) Islands
SMS Emden wreck site
Propellers, shafts, engine parts and shells of the WWI raider SMS Emden, beached after the 1914 Battle of Cocos – one of the most…
WreckDarwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs
SS Brisbane
The NT's largest surviving colonial wreck: an 85 m 1881 steamer whose boilers break the surface at low springs while the intact…
WreckNingaloo – Coral Bay
SS Fin
A whale chaser's boiler and engine above water beside a collapsed lighthouse.
WreckMackay
SS Llewellyn Wreck
An intact, soft-coral-covered 1884 government steamer lost with all 13 aboard in 1919 and found only in 1997 – untouched,…
WreckTownsville & Magnetic Island
SS Moltke Wreck (Geoffrey Bay)
Coral-encrusted 1870 iron barque scuttled as a breakwater, alive with sweetlips, batfish and fusiliers, 100 m from an easy ramp…
WreckTownsville & Magnetic Island
SS Yongala
A 109 m passenger steamer lost with all 122 aboard in the 1911 cyclone, lying almost intact on its side and swarmed by giant…
WreckGold Coast
Scottish Prince Wreck
An 1887 Glasgow barque whose whisky cargo was looted by locals, now wrapped in enormous schools of yellowtail scad in only 11 m.
ReefLady 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.
WreckLady 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.
ReefNorth 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.
WallNorth 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.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney 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…
Pinnacle/BommieRibbon 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.
ReefCoffs 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…
Pinnacle/BommieCoffs Harbour & Solitary Islands
South Solitary Island – Manta Arch
The signature dive of the Solitary Islands Marine Park: a natural arch through a boulder field with one of the most reliable…