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Curtin Artificial Reef
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Sprawling artificial reef in Moreton Bay, built from 30+ scuttled vessels and home to large groper, kingfish schools, and resident wobbegongs.
Fishery Bay Reef Dive Site Guide | Eyre Peninsula
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A sheltered reef inside Lincoln National Park on the southern Eyre Peninsula, kelp, sponge, and one of SA's most reliable sites for both leafy and weedy sea dragons in 5–20 m.
What to Expect in Your Open Water Training Dives (The 4 Certification Dives)
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The pool is over and you're heading to the ocean. Here's exactly what happens across the four open-water dives that turn you from a student into a certified diver.
What to Expect in the Theory Module (Knowledge Development)
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The classroom and eLearning side of your Open Water course is the part students worry about most and breeze through fastest. Here's what's actually in it.
Snelling Beach Dive Site Guide | Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A sandy-bottomed beach dive on Kangaroo Island's north coast with extensive seagrass beds, sea dragons, and a relaxed drift along the reef fringe in clear gu...
Lighthouse Bay Dive Site Guide | Exmouth, WA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A sheltered bay on the eastern shore of the Exmouth Gulf within the Cape Range National Park, with fringing coral reef, exceptional visibility, and the diver...
Marion Bay Jetty Dive Site Guide | Yorke, SA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
The gateway jetty to Innes National Park on the southern Yorke Peninsula, clearer water than the upper-gulf sites, both leafy and weedy sea dragons, and a winter cuttlefish run.
Neptune Islands (Shark Cage Diving) Dive Site Guide | Eyre Peninsula, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A remote island group off the Eyre Peninsula offering the most reliable great white shark cage diving in Australia, in waters patrolled by a resident populat...
Kingscote Jetty Dive Site Guide | Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Kangaroo Island's main township jetty offers relaxed shallow diving with sea dragons, resident weedy fish species, and easy access for visiting divers as a f...
Port Broughton Jetty Dive Site Guide | Yorke Peninsula, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A timber jetty on the upper eastern shore of Yorke Peninsula in a sheltered tidal estuary setting, offering easy diving with sea dragons and the classic Sout...
Klein Point Barge Dive Site Guide | Yorke, SA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A purpose-sunk artificial reef south of Edithburgh on the eastern Yorke Peninsula, mature encrusting growth, reliable sea dragons in surrounding seagrass, in 4–12 metres.
HMAS Swan Wreck Dive Site Guide | Dunsborough, WA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A scuttled River-class destroyer escort resting at 30 metres in Geographe Bay, WA's premier wreck dive with exceptional visibility and well-established marin...
Hardwicke Bay Jetty Dive Site Guide | Yorke, SA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A sheltered eastern Yorke Peninsula township jetty, weedy sea dragons in the seagrass, a quieter winter cuttlefish aggregation, and easy beginner conditions in 1–7 metres.
Glenelg Dredge Wreck Dive Site Guide — Adelaide, SA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
An Adelaide artificial-reef wreck dive in 22 m of Gulf St Vincent water — blue devils, blue groper and mature encrusting growth on the dredge structure.
Kilsby Sinkhole Dive Site Guide | Mt Gambier, SA, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A privately owned limestone sinkhole on a working farm near Mt Gambier, holding some of the clearest fresh water in Australia and plunging to over 60 metres.
Flat Rock Dive Site Guide | North Stradbroke Island, QLD, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A submerged rock platform off North Stradbroke Island renowned for its reliable aggregations of grey nurse sharks, manta rays, and large pelagic species in c...
Five Fathom Reef Dive Site Guide | Rockingham, WA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A submerged reef platform inside the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park south of Perth, weedy sea dragons, sea lions from nearby Seal Island, and a temperate-WA reef community in 6–18 m.
Eyre Island Channels Dive Guide | West SA
By ScubaDownUnder Team
Tidal channels through a remote west Eyre Peninsula archipelago, drift diving in 20–30 m Southern Ocean visibility, with Australian sea lions and undisturbed sponge walls.
Flinders Pier Dive Site Guide | Mornington Peninsula, VIC, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A beloved Mornington Peninsula jetty dive with extraordinary macro life, resident sea horses, and some of the best muck diving accessible by shore in Victoria.
Ex-HMAS Brisbane Dive Site Guide | Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia
By ScubaDownUnder Team
A decommissioned guided-missile destroyer sunk in 2005, now a multi-level wreck teeming with marine life off the Sunshine Coast.