Diving in Australia

Wall, cave and drift dives with whale sharks on the doorstep

Drift out on the falling tide as an entire atoll empties past you

Sheer Coral Sea walls with reef shark numbers rarely seen inshore.

Giant Queensland grouper at Cod Hole and dwarf minke whales in winter.

Tidal channels through pristine atolls draw dense schools of sharks and pelagics.

One hull swarming with groper, sea snakes and schooling trevally

Tame Maori wrasse inshore, and the outer barrier sixty kilometres out

Wobbegongs stacked on the ledges of a permit-only naval pier

Whale sharks gather along the reef edge every autumn after coral spawning.

The highest reef manta density on the Great Barrier Reef, year-round

Grey nurse sharks in winter and a scuttled destroyer in 28 m

Manta cleaning stations Oct–Apr, grey nurse sharks through winter

Tropical and temperate species overlap on one rock 2.5 km offshore

A 125 m ocean through-cave, and grey nurse sharks in the gutters

The world's southernmost coral reef, with advanced diving at Balls Pyramid offshore.

Weedy seadragons over temperate sponge gardens, entered from a car park

Blue gropers, seagrass critters and deep collier wrecks an hour north of Sydney

A 133 m destroyer scuttled off Seal Island, 20 minutes from the marina

White quartz sand lifts the light over temperate sponge gardens

Cage dive with great white sharks over a resident Australian sea lion colony.

Leafy seadragons drift among century-old jetty pylons a short swim from shore.

A thousand fur seals, and the juveniles come out to play with divers

Spring-fed limestone ponds and sinkholes for Open Water and cave divers alike

Thousands of spider crabs mass under a Melbourne pier each winter

Weedy seadragons drift through cold-water kelp forests off the Tasman Peninsula.