Victoria
Diving in Wilsons Promontory
The Prom is Victoria's wildest and clearest diving: granite pinnacles, walls and boulder fields around the Glennie and Anser groups and Skull Rock, deep wrecks like the SS Kanowna (115 m) and the Cape Liptrap sites, and water that can hit 30 m visibility. Fur seals at Kanowna Island and Norman Island add company.
THE LOCAL PLANNING BRIEF
Understand the options around Wilsons Promontory
Victoria’s directory includes Port Phillip Bay, the Heads, peninsula piers and the open coast. Those labels describe different settings, not interchangeable levels of difficulty. Start by identifying the precise location and proposed trip. A record near Melbourne should not be read as an easy shore dive simply because it is close to a city.
What this regional directory records Counts describe published records, not bookable trips or confirmed open sites.
There are 35 published site records in Wilsons Promontory. The recorded categories include reef (15), wall (8), island (6), wreck (3). These categories reflect the database; they are not a ranking, a conditions report or an assessment of your suitability.
Use the Wilsons Promontory site cards to compare recorded access and depth, then open the individual pages for the map accuracy and source notes. Sites grouped in a region are not necessarily close enough to combine in one day.
Research operators in Victoria →Ask before booking
- Is this trip inside the bay, at the Heads or on the open coast?
- Who determines the current and weather window?
- Which exposure protection and equipment arrangements should we discuss?
Save the answers with the contact name and date. Separate confirmed arrangements from items still waiting for a reply.
Record your trip questions →Questions, answered
How do I choose a dive in Wilsons Promontory?
Begin with the individual site and its source notes, then discuss the proposed trip with a local provider. The 35 published records are research options, not a list of trips available today. Match the plan to your training, recent experience and the operator’s current requirements.
When should I visit Wilsons Promontory for diving?
Choose dates with a provider who runs the activity you want, then discuss seasonal patterns, recent conditions and alternative itineraries. A generic best-month claim cannot establish the conditions at your exact site or guarantee a wildlife encounter.
Can I use these maps to enter or navigate a dive site?
No. Recorded and approximate map positions support orientation only. Confirm the exact access, permissions, meeting point and route with the responsible local provider or manager.
Regional planning context: Visit Victoria — scuba diving ↗. Directory counts come from published YouDive records. Individual site claims remain subject to their source and review notes.
Dive sites in this region
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Whisky Bay
A 300–500 m granite rock wall running out from a west-facing beach, with seadragons, Port Jackson sharks and rays in 1–12 m and…
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Bare Back Cove
Granite boulders with gorgonians, zoanthids and bearded cod in the crevices off a white quartz-sand cove; sheltered,…
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Brown Head Pinnacle
A granite pinnacle rising from a 25–35 m sponge garden to 8 m, wrapped in clouds of butterfly perch, 100 m off Brown Head.
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Bum Rock
A giant split granite boulder – the Prom's most photographed rock – dropping to 30 m on the exposed western face of Dannevig…
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Dannevig Island North East
A large multi-entrance boulder cave at 25 m and a field of massive granite swim-throughs on the northern tip of Dannevig Island.
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Fenwick Bight
Granite boulder fringe with vertical walls and small caves towards South Point; a sheltered-end second dive at the bottom of the…
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Horn Point
A rocky wall to 20 m with basket stars, sea spiders, large sponges and occasional weedy seadragons and southern coralfish; the…
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Kanowna Island, Seal Colony
Diving with thousands of Australian fur seals on a kelp-covered granite slope in clear water off the Prom's southern tip;…
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Kanowna Island, Seal School
The nursery side of Kanowna Island, where young fur seals mob divers in kelp gullies; the more sheltered of the island's two seal…
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Kanowna Island, South East
A granite wall plunging to 55 m with caves and swim-throughs on the exposed corner of Kanowna Island, with prolific fish life and…
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Larkin Cove
Low granite swim-throughs and a 12 m cave at 7 m in a quiet quartz-sand cove on the eastern Prom.
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Norman Bay, South
Granite boulders with small caves and hollows under Norman Point at the end of the Tidal River beach – the Prom's most accessible…
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Norman Point, South (Little Oberon Bay)
Clear-water granite boulder reef under Norman Point on the Little Oberon Bay side – the Prom's classic shore snorkel and a fine…
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Picnic Bay, South
A sheltered 1–6 m boulder reef under Leonard Point at the southern end of Picnic Bay; the Prom's easiest shore dive and snorkel,…
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Pillar Point Bommie
A single huge granite bommie 75 m off Pillar Point rising from 25 m to 7 m, with pike schools, magpie perch and weedy seadragons;…
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Pillar Point, South
Easy 2–10 m granite boulder reef with small caves and a sheer rock face on the sheltered side of Pillar Point; Tidal River's…
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Rabbit Island, North
Shallow fringing reef, sand and seagrass around a granite island at the mouth of Corner Inlet, thick with schooling sweep and…
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Rabbit Island, South
A weedy granite fringe with wrasse, dusky morwong and old wives on the Bass Strait side of Rabbit Island; the northerly-wind…
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Ramsbotham Rocks
Caves and swim-throughs among giant granite boulders at 20–30 m on the sheltered north-east corner of Great Glennie; the Glennie…
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Refuge Cove, North Wall
Boulder swim-throughs, caves and overhangs along the north shore of the Prom's natural harbour, with salmon hunting baitfish and…
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Refuge Cove, South
A sheltered 2–9 m boulder slope off the campsite beach in the Prom's natural harbour; the eastern coast's easy dive, snorkel and…
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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…
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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…
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Sea Eagle Bay Rocks
A line of granite boulders running seaward to 40 m with a mysterious pile of logs at 16 m; the closest of the southern Prom boat…