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2,855 dive sitesAcross Australia
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Cairns

Sunlover Pontoon Reef (Moore Reef)

An easy, well-run pontoon dive on a sheltered nursery reef, with intro, refresher and helmet options for non-divers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Sunset Drift (Lady Elliot Island)

An effortless, well-timed drift over beautiful coral at the south-west tip, with feeding mantas in season.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Phillip Island & Western Port

Surfies Point

Extensive basalt platforms and gutters off a south-coast surf point; a shallow, adventurous rock-platform dive for flat,…

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Swansea Bridge

Easy shore entry with dense fish life concentrated around the bridge pylons; a reliable option when the open coast is too rough…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Swansea Channel West Drift

A long, fish-filled drift through Swansea Channel finishing at a different exit point — good current-diving practice close to…

ShoreUp to 14 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

Swansea Coal Loader / SS Wallarah remains

A scattered but historically rich mix of 1889 coal-loader ruins and the 1914-wrecked SS Wallarah, accessible from the beach.

ShoreUp to 11 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Sweep Reef

The prominent centre of a 1 km ocean-side reef system behind Point Nepean – sweep schools, crayfish gutters and clear Bass Strait…

BoatUp to 9 m
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Rottnest Island

Swirl Reef

A crater-shaped reef with a huge light-shafted cave and multiple swim-throughs - Rottnest's most unusual formation.

Boat (day trip)Up to 19 m
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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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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Sykes Reef

Heron's occasional special trip: a drop-off with deep walls, big gorgonians and clearer offshore water.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Lord Howe Island

Sylph's Hole

Shore snorkel in a sanctuary zone at the northern end of the lagoon, with turtles and endemic anemonefish.

ShoreUp to 5 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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Phillip Island & Western Port

TSS Coramba

A Western District coastal steamer lost with all 17 hands in a 1934 storm, found by Southern Ocean Exploration in 2011 lying…

Boat (day trip)Up to 66 m
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Wilsons Promontory

TSS Kanowna

A 126 m WWI hospital ship and coastal liner lost in fog in 1929, found in 2005 and lying largely recognisable in 80–82 m of clear…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 82 m
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Central Coast

TSS Nerong wreck

A rarely dived deep technical wreck 5 km east of Norah Head, lost in a 1917 gale.

BoatUp to 45 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
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Gold Coast

Tallebudgera Creek

A clear, flooding creek mouth beside Burleigh Heads where snorkellers meet rays, turtles and dolphins on the incoming tide.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Tambaroora Wreck (Polmaise Reef)

Scattered remains of an 1879 steamer in 8 m on a remote reef, home to wobbegongs and nurse sharks.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 8 m
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Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Tanker Jetty Artificial Reef ('The Island')

A no-fishing tyre-module reef at the old Tanker Jetty's end – seadragons, seals and relaxed fish.

Shore or BoatUp to 9 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Tantabiddi North Reef Break

An ocean gap in North Reef with outer-reef clarity close to Tantabiddi.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Tantabiddi Sanctuary Zone (Staghorns & The Bombies)

Kayak moorings over staghorn thickets and coral heads right beside Tantabiddi ramp.

Shore or BoatUp to 3.5 m
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Hobart & Derwent

Taroona Marine Reserve (Crayfish Point)

Lobster-rich research-area reef 15 minutes from Hobart, with kelp beds and easy beach access.

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Tasman Peninsula

Tasman Island

Remote island wall under the Tasman Island lighthouse with deep-water sponges, seals and clean Southern Ocean water.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Taylor Reef

Towering green-zone bommies with swim-throughs, barracuda and seasonal manta rays.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m