Dive Site Help
Compiling the information about the Melbourne and Victorian diving and snorkelling sites in this section of this website has been a labour of love by Lloyd Borrett since 2006. It started on his own personal website, then took a step forward with the list of GPS marks he created on the Victorian Sub-Aqua Group website, and then later on the Bass Strait Aquatic Club website, and is now in this fourth incarnation here where mapping, descriptions, images and videos have been added.
Along the way Lloyd has been greatly helped by many others including Peter Beaumont, Allie Beckhurst, David Bryant, Sam Glenn Smith, Fred Headley, Jane Headley, PT Hirschfield, Michael Mallis, Mary Malloy, Sheree Marris, Packo, Geoff Rodda, Ian Scholey, Graham Ellis, Peter Ronald, and Phil Watson. (Apologies to any helpers left out.) Some have contributed or allowed links to images and videos of dive sites. Others have provided updates or additional information for the descriptions of various dives sites. Then there are those who have helped by providing accurate GPS coordinates for various dive sites, or gone out and used suspect GPS marks of some sites to check that those coordinates are correct and then let Lloyd know the results.
All contributions are duly acknowledged, and it would be safe to say that most of the Melbourne and Victorian diving and snorkelling community greatly appreciates such contributions.
Can You Help?
Can you help to enhance this resource? Maybe you have information about other diving and/or snorkelling sites not yet listed. Maybe you have images, or videos (preferably hosted on YouTube), of dive sites you could share to this resource.
Maybe you have additional information or updates about the dive sites. Information about locating and diving the site, dive site entry and exit details, site plan and/or wreck sketches, etc. Addition information about what's to be seen at the dive site, e.g. marine life, wreck remains, etc.
Maybe you're a web developer (PHP and MySQL) and could help Lloyd to better store, edit, access and display the dive site details. For example, the current map displays are pretty crude and could be easily enhanced by someone with skills in this area.
All contributions would be most gratefully received.
Dive Site Images
Can you help us with images of dive sites? For shore dives it might be images of the top-side location. For all dive sites it could be images of what's to be found underwater. We currently have no images for the following dive sites...
- 12lb Reef — Wall Dive, Boat access
- 16lb Reef — Wall Dive, Boat access
- 18 Metre Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- 65 Metre Hole — Other, Boat access
- Adieu — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Artefacts Flood — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Aspendale Rec Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Awesome Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Balnarring Reef — Shore Dive, Shore access
- Bare Back Cove — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Big Reef, Portland — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Black Boy — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Black Rock Schoal — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Boulder Point Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Brads Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Briton — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Brown Head Pinnacle — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Buckley Park Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Bum Rock — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Campbell — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Cape Nelson Lighthouse — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Catch Bag Reef Drift — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Cattle Jetty Drift — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Channel Bay — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Cheviot — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Christmas Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Corsair Rock — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Curlewis — Shore Dive, Shore access
- Dannevig Island North East — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Deep Pinnacles — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Diana, Port Fairy — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Dragons Lair — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Easter Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Elm Grove — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Entrance Deep — Other, Boat access
- Essington — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Fenwick Bight — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Ferro Cement Yacht — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- First Cave — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Fishies Beach Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Flat Rock — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Flat Rock, Cape Nelson — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Flinders Back Beach — Shore Dive, Shore access
- Flinders Cray Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Foggy Reef — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Foig a Ballagh — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Formosa — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Frankston Reef, Olivers Hill — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Free Trader — Wreck, Shore access
- Geoffs Hole — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Giddiup — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Gormans Lane Reef — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Hanging Gardens — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Helen Rock — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Helena Street Reef — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Horn Point — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Hot Spot — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Inner Corsair Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Isa — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Isabella, Cape Nelson — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Jims Hole — Reef Dive, Boat access
- John Scott — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Kanowna Island, South East — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Kelp Beds Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Kelp Beds Reef Drift — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Knawesome Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Lady Face Point — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Lady Mildred — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Larkin Cove — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Levys Point — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Light of the Age — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Light Ship — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Lighthouse Reef — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Little Reef, Portland — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Lonsdale Bommies — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Lonsdale Rock — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Lonsdale Wall Shallow — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Lost Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Mandeville Road, Summerlands — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Medea — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Merlan Inner Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Mills Reef Beach — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Miranda — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Nargra Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Nelson Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Nepean Bay Inner East - Radar — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Nepean Bay Inner West — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Nepean Offshore South - Sweep Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Nepean Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Nepean Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- New Deep Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Nursery Bay — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Ocean Drive, Port Fairy — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Olympic Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Orange Grove — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Orr Point — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Osprey — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Outer Corsair Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Outer Point Lonsdale Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Pelican Point, Flinders — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Phillip Island Cray Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Pillar Point Bommie — Bommie Dive, Shore access
- Pinafore — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Point Franklin, Cape Otway — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Point Lonsdale Township Reef — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Portsea Back Beach Wall — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Portsea Cray Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Portsea Hole Wreck — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Portsea Pier East Reef — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Quarantine Station Anchor — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Quarantine Station Reef — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Queenscliffe — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Ramsden Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Refuge Cove, North Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Rogers Rocks — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Rubicon — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Sanctum Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Saxon — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Sea Eagle Bay Rocks — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Seal Gully — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Shortland Bluff Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- Simmons Bay Sea Caves — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Snakes and Ladders — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Socrates — Wreck Dive, Shore access
- Sponge Garden Drift — Drift Dive, Boat access
- Spot G — Wall Dive, Boat access
- SS Barwon — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Stanhope Bay — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Sub Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Surfies Point — Shore Dive, Shore access
- Taylors Beach — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Tea Tree Bay — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Tedesco Reef Seaford — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Abyss — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Arch, Flinders — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Banks — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Boatshed, Cape Bridgewater — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Cathedral — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Cave — Wall Dive, Boat access
- The Ledges — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Links — Wall Dive, Boat access
- The Mall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- The Marbles — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Nice Spot — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Other Playground — Wall Dive, Boat access
- The Passage Bommie — Bommie Dive, Boat access
- The Passage Reef Deep — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Passage Reef Shallow — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Patches — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Plateau — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Playground — Wall Dive, Boat access
- The Southern Pinnacle — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Steps — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Supermarket — Reef Dive, Boat access
- The Swim Through — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Tin Mine Cove — Reef Dive, Shore access
- Tomatin — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Toms Cave — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Toms Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Torpedo Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Trimix Corner — Other, Boat access
- Tyre Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Unidentified - Queenscliff — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Unknown 001 — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- VHB 53 — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Victoria — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Victory Cray Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Waterloo Bay, North Wall — Wall Dive, Boat access
- Waterloo Point — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Wave — Wreck Dive, Boat access
- Whalers Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Wild Side — Reef Dive, Boat access
- Zoo Reef — Reef Dive, Boat access
Total of 173 dive sites.
Most of the other dive sites could be improved with additional images.
Future Directions
Of course there is a lot more that could be done to improve a resource like this. Proper site maps, or even 3D versions of them. The advances in the technology to make this possible are amazing and it would be great to see it used on key local dive sites.
Lloyd cranks on wrecks not critters. Thus there is much that could be done to improve the information about the various marine species present at each dive site to give everyone a better understanding of our local marine ecosystems.
Some of the things we'd like to see are:
- Dive and Snorkel Briefing Charts
Dive and snorkel briefings are a critical part of every dive and snorkel excursion. They can improve safety and enhance the in-water experience, allowing divers and snorkellers to better understand the site and find species of interest. - Underwater Site Maps
These might be simple site sketches, or full on 3D-modeled maps of a dive site or the layout of and popular dive routes through a wreck. - Terrestrial Mapping
Use 3D-modelling technology to develop maps of the terrestrial environment. This would promote the shore diving and snorkelling sites, plus any related nature trails, biking routes and hiking paths. - Digital 3D interactive tools
Make 3D models available to make it possible for avid divers and snorkellers to explore underwater sites to plan their dives or outings. - Marine Biology
Provide marine biology information, preferably linked to each dive site, to educate everyone about the reef ecosystem, marine biology concepts, organisms and their behaviours.
Could you help with any of this, or become part of a group to do it? Or do you have some other suggestions for ways to improve this resource?
How to Contribute
Please contact Lloyd:
email. [email protected]
tel. 0418 170 044
Or maybe you'd prefer to participate via the Scuba Doctor Dive Maps forum.
