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2,855 dive sitesAcross Australia
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Mornington Peninsula

Royal Beach, Mornington

Quiet rubble reef beside Mornington Pier; can be linked to the Schnapper Point reef for a one-way dive.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SS Advance wreck (Catherine Hill Bay)

An upright, relatively intact 1908 tug with boiler, galley stove and side plating in place, alone on sand off Catherine Hill Bay.

BoatUp to 49 m
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Port Phillip Heads

SS Alert

An upright, largely intact 1877 iron steamer in 75 m, lost with 15 lives in 1893 and found by Southern Ocean Exploration in 2007;…

Boat (day trip)Up to 75 m
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Portland & the West

SS Barwon & Horseshoe Reef, Cape Bridgewater

Boiler and plating of an 1871 coastal steamer lost in fog, beside a kelp-covered snorkel reef in the calmest water on Cape…

BoatUp to 8 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

SS Cities Service Boston

Boilers and engine remains of a 146 m US tanker wrecked in 1943, with a dramatic rescue story commemorated on the headland.

Shore or BoatDepth not recorded
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Central Coast

SS Commonwealth wreck (Foggy Reef)

A wooden steamer's boilers and engines near Foggy Reef - the wreck whose search led to the discovery of Foggy Cave.

BoatUp to 42 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

SS Cooma Wreck (North Reef)

A 1926 passenger steamer's boilers, shaft and triple-expansion engine in 5 m on North Reef.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 6 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SS Davenport wreck (Stockton)

A WWII munitions ship towed out of Newcastle Harbour while ablaze in 1943, with fire-fused machinery in only 12 m.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Wilsons Promontory

SS Federal

A collier lost with all hands in a 1901 gale and found by CSIRO sonar in 2019, lying broken in 115 m off Cape Conran – a…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 115 m
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Coral Sea

SS Francis Preston Blair wreck (Saumarez Reef)

The collapsed remains of a Second World War Liberty ship on a remote Coral Sea reef edge.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 15 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Goolgwai wreck (Long Bay)

Last resting place of a Canadian-built WWI minesweeper that served as HMAS Goolgwai in WWII; a search dive through scattered iron…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

SS Gothenburg Wreck (Old Reef)

Boilers, oscillating engines and iron frames of the Gothenburg, lost in 1875 with about 102 lives – one of Australia's worst…

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Wilsons Promontory

SS Gulf of Carpentaria

An unsalvaged 1881 cargo liner lying collapsed at the foot of the uncharted pinnacle that sank her in 1885, in 48–50 m of…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 50 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

SS Irresistible wreck

An upright 1883 steam tug with a big boiler, scuttled in 1931 in Stockton Bight - the shallowest of Newcastle's scuttled tugs.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay

SS Kakariki

Salvaged remains of a 1926 steamer lost in the port of Melbourne's worst collision (1937, five dead), dumped off Williamstown in…

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Central Coast

SS Kiama wreck

A 1951 sixty-miler collier with a prominent boiler and engine lying to port, in 45-47 m off The Entrance.

BoatUp to 47 m
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Hobart & Derwent

SS Lintrose

Twin propellers and engine of a Scottish-built river steamer lying in 2-5 m beside the Iron Pot.

Boat (day trip)Up to 5 m
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Port Stephens

SS Macleay wreck

A 1911 collier wreck at 42 m with an unusually well-preserved engine and boiler, and a strong resident mulloway and morwong…

BoatUp to 42 m
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Port Phillip Heads

SS Malaita

A 1893 island trader with a chequered life, lying at 65 m – one of the deep Graveyard set dived only by trimix and rebreather…

Boat (day trip)Up to 65 m
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Yorke Peninsula

SS Marion Wreck

An 1854 Glasgow-built steamer wrecked in 1862 that gave Marion Bay its name, lying in two broken sections below the Innes cliffs.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

SS Mildura Wreck

A 1907 cattle steamer with boilers still breaking the surface off the tip of North West Cape.

Shore or BoatUp to 4 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Minmi wreck (Cape Banks)

The stern of a 75 m collier that broke her back on Cape Banks in fog in 1937, with wreckage scattered through Cruwee Cove.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Ulladulla

SS Northern Firth

Swim through a giant intact boiler from a 1932 steamer wrecked on Brush Island.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Port Stephens

SS Oakland wreck

A 1903 collier wreck at 27 m valued for the large baitfish schools and reef fish it now shelters.

BoatUp to 27 m