Diving
Sydney Sites
I've dived at 47 sites in Sydney:
Name | Location | Area | Country | Wreck | Freshwater | Description | Notes |
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Balmoral Beach | Sydney | Australia | |||||
Bare Island | La Perouse | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Barron's Hut | off Port Hacking | Sydney | Australia | Good cave and tunnel - best with a small group of experienced divers so the silt isn't stirred up. | |||
Bass and Flinders Point | Cronulla | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Birchgrove Park | Avalon | Sydney | Australia | 640 ton collier, sunk in a gale on August 2nd 1956. Only 4 of her crew of 14 survived. | |||
Bombo | Wollongong | Sydney | Australia | A steam-engined collier which sank in 1949 in a storm when the cargo of coal shifted. 2 men survived. Just accessible from Sydney as a day dive. | |||
Camp Cove | East of Watson's Bay | Sydney | Australia | Entry at Green Point. | |||
Cape Solander | Round from Inscription Point, Kurnell | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Coolooli | Long Reef | Sydney | Australia | Dredger, sunk deliberately as an artificial reef in 1980. | |||
Dee Why | Long Reef | Sydney | Australia | Double-ended Sydney ferry | |||
East Shark Island | Sydney | Australia | |||||
Fairlight | Manly | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Fish Reef | off Port Hacking | Sydney | Australia | One of Max's sites. It takes 20 minutes to circumnavigate the reef, and it has most of what you could ask for - swimthroughs, overhangs, cuttlefish and even a black stingray. | |||
Galava | Terrigal | Sydney | Australia | The 'Galava' was a 413 ton collier (steam-engined, single screw). Sunk February 9th 1927. | |||
Gap Cave | Boat left from Watson's Bay | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Hallcaine | Sydney | Australia | A wooden steamship, so only machinery is left - boiler, engine, anchor, winches and two bronze props. | ||||
Haven Sponge Gardens | Terrigal | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Hole in the Wall | Avalon | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Inscription Point | Kurnell | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Lion Island | Broken Bay | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Long Bay | Fisherman's Road, Malabar | Sydney | Australia | The suburb of Long Bay was renamed Malabar after the 1931 shipwreck. Sheltered from the north, but not a whole lot to see. | |||
Long Reef | Dee Why | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Magic Point | Cronulla | Sydney | Australia | Grey nurse sharks | https://www.abyss.com.au/en/magic-point-boat-dive | ||
Manly | Around the corner from Shelly Beach | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Middle Ground | Out from Port Hacking | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Midway Reef | Dee Why | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Nerong | Norah Head, Terrigal | Sydney | Australia | ||||
North Bondi | Sydney | Australia | |||||
North Head | Sydney | Australia | PADI Deep Course November 1988 | ||||
Not the Foggy Shark Cave | Terrigal | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Not the Yambacoona | Terrigal | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Oak Park | Oak Park | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Osborne Shoals | Sydney | Australia | |||||
Royal Shepherd | South Head | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Shelly Beach | Manly | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Shiprock | Port Hacking | Sydney | Australia | ||||
South Head | Sydney | Australia | PADI Deep Course November 1988 | ||||
The Apartments | Long Reef, Collaroy | Sydney | Australia | A 5 minute boat trip from the beach at Collaroy. Big boulders and a good swim-through. Large shoals of yellowtail & nannegai. Wobbegong. | |||
The Balcony | off Royal National Park | Sydney | Australia | ||||
The Gutter | Bass Point, Shellharbour | Sydney | Australia | ||||
The Pinnacles, Avalon | North of Avalon Beach | Sydney | Australia | Atlantis Divers run trips to this site from Palm Beach. If you keep your eyes peeled you might see a sea dragon. | |||
The Wall, Long Reef | Collaroy | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Tuggerah | Royal National Park | Sydney | Australia | Collier, 749 g.t. Built on the Clyde in 1912. Sank in gale May 1919. | |||
Underwater Wilderness | off Royal National Park | Sydney | Australia | ||||
Undola | off Royal National Park | Sydney | Australia | Collier, 429 g.t. Built Paisley 1909. Sunk December 1918. No survivors. | |||
Valiant | NE of Barrenjoey Light | Sydney | Australia | The Valiant was a tug, which sank in 1981 on its way to be scuttled after the Maritime Services Board failed to survey it. The tow rope parted in rough weather and 30 seconds later it sank. The wreck is lying tilted over to its port side in 28m and is intact, but beginning to rust through. It is possible to swim round the engine room and crew's quarters, and there are plenty of fish to be seen, including a moray eel. | |||
West Point | Pitt Water | Sydney | Australia |