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Port Phillip Heads

PS Hygeia

Intact paddle wheels of the fastest bay excursion steamer of the 1890s, standing in 60 m in the shipping channel – very rarely…

Boat (day trip)Up to 62 m
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Central Coast

PS Maitland wreck (Maitland Bay)

The boilers of the 1898 'Maitland Storm' paddle steamer on the rock platform of a beautiful, protected national park bay.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

PS Yarra Yarra wreck

An upright 1851 paddle steamer with both paddlewheels still standing, just north of Newcastle Harbour.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Nullarbor Caves

Pannikin Plains Cave

The deep Nullarbor cave where a 1988 collapse trapped an expedition, inspiring the film 'Sanctum'.

ShoreUp to 40 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Paradise Beach Drift

A 1.8 km beginner drift ending back in Bill's Bay.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Tasmania East Coast

Paradise Reef

A two-sided sponge and sea-whip reef that gives deep-site colour at more moderate depths.

Boat (day trip)Up to 33 m
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Cairns

Paradise Reef (Breaking Patches)

A small green-zone reef, exclusive to one operator, where coral trout and red emperor have rebounded.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Parker Bommie (Great Keppel Island)

An exposed pinnacle rising from 17 m almost to the surface, thick with sea fans, sponges and black coral trees.

Boat (day trip)Up to 17 m
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Surf Coast & Great Ocean Road

Parker Inlet, Cape Otway

A secluded river-mouth cove on the Great Ocean Walk with kelp gutters and offshore bommies, reached by 300 steps – empty, wild…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Tasman Peninsula

Patersons Arch

Big daylight swim-through arches lined with anemones – cave scenery without the commitment.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Pearses Beach, Blairgowrie

The most approachable back-beach entry at Blairgowrie – a sandy beach with rock pools, gullies and reef in both directions; good…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Pebbles Beach (King Bay)

Epaulette sharks among shallow rocks on the Burrup.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Tasmania North & North-West

Pebbly Beach (Rocky Cape)

An attractive day-or-night shore dive with spires covered in nudibranchs and basket stars.

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Peel Island – Horseshoe Bay

Shallow fringing reefs and the beached 1883 bucket dredge Platypus at a historic island anchorage.

BoatUp to 4 m
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Norfolk Island

Pel-Air Westwind wreck

Largely intact Westwind medevac jet at 48 m from the 2009 night ditching in which all six aboard survived.

Boat (day trip)Up to 54 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Pelican Foreshore (Lake Macquarie)

An easy channel shore dive over current-sculpted sandstone and old marina remains, with seahorses and snowflake coral.

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Pelican Point Reef, Daveys Bay

Sheltered beginner and snorkel site under the Mount Eliza bluffs; boulder reef full of small fish and crabs.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Front Reef

Independent shore diving from a camping beach on an uninhabited reef island, with staghorn gardens, juvenile mantas and winter…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – House Mooring

Shallow reef wall with a giant clam colony off a sandy beach on Pelorus's south-western tip.

BoatUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Northern Point

Current-fed point with detached rocks, bommies, swim-throughs and barramundi cod – the best, and hardest, dive on Pelorus.

Shore or BoatUp to 15 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Southern Wall

Shallow wall with sea fans, barrel sponges, a distinctive corner bommie and a two-metre black coral tree.

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Pelsaert Island & Drop-off

A sanctuary drop-off with 20 m-plus visibility, crays, morays and baldchin groper.

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

Penguin Island

A snorkel trail and low limestone reefs around WA's largest little penguin colony, with sea lions and dolphins regularly nearby.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Bruny Island & D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Penguin Island (Adventure Bay)

Steep reef and shallow sea caves under Fluted Cape, a short hop from the Adventure Bay ramp.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m