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Cave/CavernSydney Harbour
Beehive Casemate Tunnel (Middle Head)
Swim a concrete-lined 1880s minefield cable tunnel from the reef into the cliff and surface at the foot of a colonial stone…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Big Saigon (Cape Baily)
Long north–south wall with arches, swim-throughs and prolific sponge and fish life off Cape Baily, running past 32 m.
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Blue Devil Reef (Port Hacking)
Small curving wall and overhangs home to eastern blue devilfish, 1 km from the Port Hacking entrance.
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Bypass Reef (Cape Banks)
Sheer walls, boulder swim-throughs and cave after cave at 26–31 m, blanketed in gorgonians and sea squirts with 30 m visibility…
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Cape Banks Bridge
A 15 m vertical wall rising to 10 m of pitted rock above a kelp reef and 28 m sand, found by chasing a hoax shark cave in 2000.
Jetty/PierSydney Harbour
Chowder Bay Wharf (naval wharf and mooring chains)
Warship mooring chains, a naval wharf, two small wrecks and a Land Rover in 10–12 m – the structured outer half of Sydney's…
WallSydney Northern Beaches
Dee Why Wide (Deep)
A true wall from 30 to 36 m with the richest sponge and gorgonian growth on the Northern Beaches and big pelagics on the edge.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Dobroyd Head / Reef Beach
A 2 km boulder-and-sponge reef with a small wreck below a bushland headland in the North Harbour reserve – Sydney's best scooter…
WallSydney Northern Beaches
Fairfax Lookout (North Head)
The deepest and richest of the North Head reefs – walls and swim-throughs above sponge gardens at 26–30 m at the tip of the…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Flat Rock (South Bondi)
Three caves under the Bondi rock platform, usually with resident wobbegongs, on an easy 6–12 m dive.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Forty Baskets Beach
Seahorses on the pool net and angelsharks on the sand below Dobroyd Head – a quiet North Harbour reserve beach at the end of a…
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
GT Reef (Kurnell)
A lightly explored network of small walls off Kurnell, named after the now-demolished 'golf tee' radar dome.
ReefSydney 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…
WreckSydney South & Botany Bay
Hereward wreck (Maroubra Beach)
The iron hull and mast fragments of an 1898 clipper periodically uncovered in the Maroubra surf, 50 m from the sand.
WreckSydney Harbour
Itata wreck (Salt Pan Creek)
The burnt-out iron hull of an 1883 barque abandoned in a mangrove-lined Middle Harbour creek – Sydney's zero-visibility training…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Jolong (Cape Banks)
A 20–26 m wall with overhangs and boulders under the national park gun emplacements, 700 m north of Cape Banks and rarely visited.
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
KFC Reef (Jibbon)
Some of the best and most colourful sponge gardens in Sydney, with giant boarfish and swarms of one-spot pullers.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Little Bay – 4th Hole
A pocket of caves, ledges and swim-throughs inside a golf-course inlet – small, intricate and very good at night.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Little Manly Cove
A netted, seagrass-floored harbour cove with seahorses, octopus and penguins – the easiest night dive in Manly.
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
M & K Reef
A 22–27 m wall with a big rock swim-through and an isolated reef 'island', found by St George Scuba Club in 2008 and still dived…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Northern Beaches
Manly Beach (South Steyne – Queenscliff)
The beach where a southern right whale and calf rested within 200 m of the sand in 1993 – an open surf beach with reef only at…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Middle Head (Cobblers Beach and Obelisk Beach)
Unvisited boulder reef, sponge gardens and a small wreck around a national-park headland between the two harbours, reached from…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Mistral Point
Stacked east–west walls from 23 to 10 m with reliable seadragons on the sand edge, on a coast almost nobody dives.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Nielsen Park / Shark Bay
An easy netted national-park beach with seahorses on the summer net and kelp rocks running out to Steel Point – Vaucluse's…