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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Batemans Bay

The Tunnel (Black Rock)

Swim a 15–20 m tunnel and exit straight up a vertical hole onto the reef top.

BoatUp to 21 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Wanderers (Bate Bay)

An immense deep reef of walls, swim-throughs and sea-whip gardens 5 km off Cronulla, named for its wandering anemones.

BoatUp to 46 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Toothbrush Island Cave

A gutter maze leading to a 10 m-deep sea cave that runs back under the island, with sea dragons in the kelp outside.

BoatUp to 16 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Toothpaste

Easy circuit along a colourful pink-rock wall with big bullseye schools and resting bull rays.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Turquoise Bay Drift Snorkel

Australia's most famous drift snorkel: float over coral bommies with sharks and turtles, straight off a white-sand beach.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Wedding Cake Island (North West)

Stepped ledges, gullies and sponge gardens on the sheltered side of Coogee's island; the operators' southerly-swell option.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Wedding Cake Island (South East)

Coogee's island: a 15 m wall with caves and a 22 m outer ledge under blankets of sponge, with big luderick schools in the…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Kangaroo Island

Western River Cove

Kangaroo Island's classic shore dive – colourful reef fish in the shallows and gorgonians and blue groper on the deeper western…

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

Whale Bones

A honeycomb of limestone caves and swim-throughs beneath a 2-3 m reef top, with harlequin fish and seadragons.

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Rainbow Beach

Wolf Rock

Australia's premier grey nurse shark dive and the only known gestation site for the east-coast population, with dozens of sharks…

Boat (day trip)Up to 38 m
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Closed to diving · see official notice

Central Coast

ex-HMAS Adelaide

Closed to diving: NSW Crown Lands advises the public not to dive ex-HMAS Adelaide. Read the current official notice before…

BoatUp to 32 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

ex-HMAS Tobruk

Australia's largest military dive wreck – a 127 m landing ship lying on her side, with the shallowest point at 11 m for Open…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28.5 m
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Rottnest Island

10 Metre Spire

An offshore spire with big overhangs and a fish-packed cave, rising to 10 m off the West End.

Boat (day trip)Up to 27 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Adamson Sponge Gardens

The densest sponge gardens on North Head, on the reef where the clipper Catherine Adamson was lost in 1857.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Althorpe Island

Remote island with 50+ sites, 20 m walls, seal colonies, big blue groper and historic wrecks at the mouth of Spencer Gulf.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Anemone Lump (Easter Group)

Anemone-covered coral bommie from 38 m to 3 m with baitfish clouds, big plate corals and curious emperors.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 38 m
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Yamba & Iluka

Angourie Point / Green Point reef

A rugged basalt reef of trenches, canyons and swim-throughs beneath one of Australia's most famous surf points, diveable only on…

Shore or BoatUp to 14 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Aughinish Rock

Isolated plateau with sponge- and soft-coral-covered walls to 30 m; the reef that sank the Lady Darling.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Merimbula

Bar Beach (Merimbula)

Sheltered beach for snorkelling and first dives beside the Merimbula Wharf headland.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Barcoola Wreck

A 1994 trawler in 44 m buried in baitfish, with big cod, gropers and bronze whalers – locals rate the fish life above the Yongala.

BoatUp to 44 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Bombora

Giant snapper and schooling kingfish under the overhangs of a lonely bommie 250 m south of Bare Island – a navigation challenge…

ShoreUp to 14 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Not So Deep Wall

The intermediate step between Bare Island Right and the Deep Wall – a boulder wall at 14–16 m leading to Sea Horse Corner,…

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Batemans Bay

Barlings Beach and Barlings Island

Easy gutters with resident wobbegongs and an underwater spit to the island.

ShoreUp to 11 m
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Sunshine Coast

Barwon Banks

The Sunshine Coast's deep offshore bank: caves and ledges from 22 m, gorgonians and black coral, pelagic schools and big sharks,…

BoatUp to 50 m