Adelaide & South Australian Dive Sites

When most peo­ple think of scuba div­ing, pic­tures of the Great Bar­rier Reef, Bali and Van­u­atu spring to mind — a trop­i­cal par­adise teem­ing with coral and fish. What they don’t always realise is that there’s very likely a wealth of div­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties right in their own back yard. It’s not always going to be as colour­ful, or as warm, but it can still be quite an adven­ture nonethe­less. To that end, I’ve put together a list of some of the dive sites in Ade­laide and the sur­round­ing areas, along with a few of my pho­tos and video clips from each one. This list isn’t every dive site around, it’s just the sites that I’ve vis­ited so far. For­tu­nately, there’s plenty of them to keep me going so I won’t run out any time soon.

Boat Dives

 

Shore Dives

 

To get an idea of where the sites are, here’s a Google Maps rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the sites I’ve man­aged to pin down a loca­tion for (yel­low for sites I’ve vis­ited, blue for sites I haven’t vis­ited, and green for boat ramps):

Dive sites I haven’t vis­ited yet

As men­tioned at the top of the page, this list is just the sites that I’ve had the oppor­tu­nity to visit. There are plenty more sites avail­able to divers in South Aus­tralia. Here are some of them, in no par­tic­u­lar order (hope­fully I’ll get to visit them all at some stage!)