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A scuba diving mask (not swimming goggles) is an essential piece of equipment for any diver. Masks are usually sold as being one size fits all faces. All masks differ in size depending on brand and style within the brand and thus some will achieve a better fit on your face than others. The main variable in this sizing is your head size and face shape. As this is so individual to every person we cannot offer any guaranteed sizing advise. However, in the mask descriptions we have tried to indicate if each mask is more suited to petite, small, medium or large faces. But there are no easy rules to follow. Sometimes a mask that seems more suited to a small face works well on a big face. Generally, the more expensive masks have better quality mask skirts and better quality skirts seal on a wider range of face sizes.

The best thing to do is try the mask on your face and check how well it seals. For details about How to Quickly Check a Scuba Mask for Fit please read our Buyers Guide: Buying a Great Dive Mask.

Prescription/Corrective Lens Diving Masks: Eager to try scuba diving, but feel worried about the practicality of it because of your eyesight? If you wear glasses and need some assistance seeing clearly when diving or snorkelling, The Scuba Doctor is Australia's largest supplier of Prescription Lens Masks.

Technical Tip

Why Black Skirt Diving and Snorkelling Masks Are Better

Clear skirts on diving and snorkelling masks are popular because they minimise the claustrophobic feeling some people get when they wear a mask. Nevertheless, clear skirts actually interfere with vision. Extraneous light entering through the clear skirt makes it more difficult for the eye to focus and causes reflections that obscure vision. Demonstrate this by looking out a window from a lighted room at twilight. You will see better by cupping your hands around your eyes as you press your face to the window. For these reasons, knowledgeable divers and snorkellers seeking the best possible vision prefer masks with black skirts.

Note: Diving/snorkelling masks are very different to Swimming Goggles. See Goggles vs Masks.



Melbourne Dive Sites Map

Interactive Melbourne Dive Sites Map

With the map above you can navigate your way through the huge variety of great dive sites that Melbourne and Victoria have waiting for you. From shore and pier dives, wrecks, reef and deep wall dives, plus marine park and drift dives, you'll be amazed at just what is on offer.

See Melbourne Dive Site GPS Marks for a list of the dive site GPS marks and basic dive site information.

See Dive Sites for a full list of the dive site web pages.

Melbourne Dive Site Wall Maps

Lucia Suarez has used the KML file we provide of the Melbourne Dive Sites on this website, together with Google Earth, to produce a set of wall maps. Photos are by Marcia Riederer.

Click on the dive map image thumbnails to see or downloads the full size wall map as a PDF at A0 size, 300 dpi. It should be easy to take the PDFs to a suitable place for printing at A0 or A1 size and laminating.

Melbourne Dive Sites
This wall map covers the dive sites of most of Port Phillip.
(Adobe PDF, 1 page, A0 size, 18.9 Mb)

Port Phillip Southern End and Back Beaches Dive Sites
This wall map covers the dive sites of the Southern End of Port Phillip and the Back Beaches.
(Adobe PDF, 1 page, A0 size, 18.9 Mb)

Port Phillip Entrance Dive Sites
This wall map covers the dive sites close to the entrance of Port Phillip.
(Adobe PDF, 1 page, A0 size, 12.1 Mb)

Around Cape Schanck and Phillip Island Dive Sites
This wall map covers the dive sites around Cape Schanck and Phillip Island.
(Adobe PDF, 1 page, A0 size, 13.3 Mb)

Victoria Dive Sites
This wall map covers the dive sites of Victoria.
(Adobe PDF, 1 page, A0 size, 15.9 Mb)


DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Always check the validity of information with local authorities, especially in regards to restrictions of diving in the area. As information on this dive site database is obtained through multiple sources, the accuracy of the information cannot be guarunteed. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.

The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source, e.g. GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.

If you don't understand the differences between the different ways coordinates are given, plus how different datum come into play, you might find the article GPS Conversions by Lloyd Borrett a useful read. It describes the problems associated with locating dive sites using a GPS receiver.

GPS latitude explained


Scuba Doctor Dive Map KML File

In the true spirit of making it easy to obtain, utilise and share the information for non-commercial purposes, you can now Download/view the Scuba Doctor Dive Map GPS Marks (KML file | 427.19 KB | 24-May-2022) in the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth or Google Maps.

Some marine GPS units can import the information from a KML file. For others you can use use a file translate program (e.g. GPSBabel) to convert the KML file into an import file format (e.g. GPX) supported by your GPS unit.


Please Help Us To Correct GPS Marks and Add More Melbourne Dive Sites

If you have have information about other dive sites you'd be happy to see added to the information available here, or any corrections and/or updates to the diving site GPS marks listed here, please feel free to Contact Us. See also, Dive Site Help.

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