Australia's dive site directory
Every dive site in Australia.Everything you need to plan the dive.
2,855 reefs, wrecks, jetties, walls and caves, each with depth, entry, the weather that blows it out, marine life, hazards, the training it needs and the dive centres that go there.
- Dive sites
- 2,855
- Wrecks
- 560
- Shore dives
- 543
- Dive centres
- 292
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Diving this month
November in Australian waters
Coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef, turtles nesting, and the start of summer on the southern coasts.
A few nights after the November full moon the Great Barrier Reef spawns, a night dive worth planning a trip around at Heron, Lady Elliot and the Cairns reefs. Turtles begin nesting on the southern cays. The stinger season starts on the Queensland coast, and the first cyclones can arrive late in the month, but the outer reef is still excellent. Christmas Island's whale sharks arrive with the red crab migration.
Where to go in November
Heron Island
Coral spawning and the first nesting turtles.
Christmas Island
Whale sharks arrive with the red crab spawn.
Sydney Northern Beaches
Warming water, grey nurse sharks moving south to Long Reef and Magic Point.
Port Douglas
Last of the dry season on the Agincourt reefs.
Happening now: Coral spawning after the full moon · Turtle nesting begins on the southern cays · Stinger season begins
Give it a miss: Nothing yet; the wet season is only beginning.
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Your first dives, state by state
The easiest sites, what a boat day is like, what to hire.
By state
Eight very different coasts
Queensland
594 sites
The Great Barrier Reef, the SS Yongala and warm water twelve months a year.
90 dive centres
New South Wales
685 sites
Temperate reefs, grey nurse sharks and Australia's densest cluster of city shore dives.
63 dive centres
Victoria
395 sites
Pier macro life, Port Phillip Heads walls and the biggest concentration of wrecks in the country.
39 dive centres
Tasmania
238 sites
Giant kelp, sea caves, the deepest sea cliffs in the southern hemisphere and water as clear as it is cold.
15 dive centres
South Australia
258 sites
Leafy seadragons, giant cuttlefish, the Mount Gambier sinkholes and great white cage diving.
22 dive centres
Western Australia
434 sites
Ningaloo, Rottnest, the Rowley Shoals and 12,000 km of coast with almost no one on it.
52 dive centres
Northern Territory
82 sites
WWII wrecks in Darwin Harbour, dived on neap tides in the dry season.
5 dive centres
External Territories
169 sites
Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling), Norfolk Island and the Coral Sea: Australia's remote oceanic diving.
6 dive centres
Trip planner
Four days in Jervis Bay? Two on the Mornington piers?
Pick a region, your days, your certification and what you want to see. The planner builds a day-by-day itinerary from the directory, with the operators to call and shore fallbacks for when the boat is cancelled.
Build a plan →What training each depth needs
- Easy0–10 m
- Open Water10–18 m
- Advanced Open Water18–30 m
- Deep / Advanced + experience30–40 m
- Technical40 m +
Ranked lists
The best of Australia, argued
- The 15 Best Wreck Dives in Australia15
- The 20 Best Shore Dives in Australia20
- The 12 Best Jetty & Pier Dives in Australia12
- The Best Dive Sites in Australia for Beginners14
- The Best Technical & Deep Dives in Australia14
- The Best Cave & Sinkhole Dives in Australia10
- The Best Macro & Critter Dives in Australia12
- The Best Big-Animal Dives in Australia15
Planning guides
The questions before every trip
Who takes you there
292 dive centres, charters and liveaboards, linked to the sites they run
Well documented, regularly dived
