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NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteShore/Rock Platform

Sydney Northern Beaches

North Curl Curl

Overhangs, swim-throughs and a sponge-lined sand line at 18–20 m off a rock platform on the Curl Curl headland – exposed,…

ShoreUp to 20 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteReef

Sydney Northern Beaches

North Head Sponge Gardens

Continuous sponge and soft-coral mosaic on a sheltered boulder slope, reliably diveable and reliably colourful – Manly's standard…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney Harbour

Obelisk Beach (Middle Head south)

A sheltered sand-and-seagrass beach dive that becomes Middle Head's sponge gardens 450 m east along the sand line.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Oporto Reef (Jibbon)

A large low overhang and small tunnel on the northern edge of the Jibbon reef system, with big kingfish.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Pink Floyd (Botany Bay)

A sheer 17–26 m wall in the Botany Bay entrance dense with pink invertebrates, pipefish and pygmy pipehorses – found in 2025 and…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney Harbour

Quarantine Station / Quarantine Bay

Seagrass seahorses and old wharf piles inside the bay, sponge reef to 16 m around the point – a calm, historic dive behind North…

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Red Flag (Long Bay Rifle Range)

Tunnels and caves under the rifle-range cliff with dense yellowtail and seapike schools and seasonal Port Jackson shark…

BoatUp to 23 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Red Rooster Reef (Jibbon)

A prominent wall with an old Admiralty anchor lying beside it, giant jelly ascidians and a resident seal.

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Rifle Range Reef (Malabar)

Boulder wall with swim-throughs and gullies under the rifle-range cliffs, backed by a 25 m outer wall; excellent fish life on…

BoatUp to 25 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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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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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Tekapo wreck (South Maroubra)

Shallow scattered remains of an 89 m passenger steamer lost in fog in 1899; its huge anchor is a monument at North Maroubra.

Shore or BoatUp to 7 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Secluded Cemetery

A pristine 18–25 m wall 150 m off the cemetery cliffs, often with 25 m visibility, and the start of an 800 m drift to Pistol…

BoatUp to 26 m
TASYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteWreck

Flinders Island & Furneaux Group

Sydney Cove (Preservation Island)

One of Australia's oldest shipwrecks (1797), whose survivors' ordeal opened Bass Strait to sealing.

BoatUp to 4 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

TSS Belbowrie wreck (South Maroubra)

Scattered iron and brass from a 1911 timber steamer wrecked in a southerly gale in 1939, on the same point as the Tekapo.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Tabbagai Gap

Deep north–south walls at 24–28 m with firefish and pomfret in the overhangs – barely explored.

BoatUp to 29 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteArtificial Reef

Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Container Wall (Port Botany)

Giant mulloway and outsize bream in a labyrinth of tunnels through a 1970s breakwater – the strangest dive in Botany Bay.

Shore or BoatUp to 14 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Cutting North Reef

Wall, caves and a large overhang with gutters full of yellowtail and seapike, just north of The Cutting.

BoatUp to 21 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the sitePinnacle/Bommie

Sydney Northern Beaches

The Pinnacles – Bangalley Head

Surface-breaking pinnacles and a maze of house-sized boulders with swim-throughs and sea dragons, all shallower than 18 m.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

The Trio wreck

A 50 m ferro-cement barge upright in 51 m off Mona Vale, discovered in 1988 and still rarely visited.

BoatUp to 54 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

The Waterfall (North Head)

A sheltered 45-degree boulder slope beneath a cliff spring, coated in sponges and sea fans – the easiest of the North Head sponge…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Truck Tyre Reef / Pistol Point

A wall with a rock tunnel and a deeper reef carpeted in thousands of small fan sponges, with old truck tyres from the clifftop…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Tupia Point (Malabar)

A boulder reef riddled with swim-throughs, caves and tunnels, plus probable MV Malabar funnel and boiler wreckage in an 8 m inlet.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Tyre Reef (South Maroubra)

Twin walls at 10–15 m and 20–24 m with swim-throughs, seadragons in the kelp and huge pomfret schools, on an undived cliff line.

BoatUp to 24 m