Albany
Michaelmas Island |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
18metres |
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Average Visibility: |
20metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
12metres |
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Dive Type: |
Boat |
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Directions: |
Located on the Western end of Michaelmas Island. |
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Dive Site Information: |
A myriad of boulders which have tumbled down from the side of the island over thousands of years creating sensational boulders and caves and swim throughs covered in colour and fish life. |
Weedy Sea Dragon
Albany, Western Australia
HMAS Perth Wreck |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
36metres |
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Average Visibility: |
15metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Advanced |
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Average Depth: |
25metres |
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Dive Type: |
Boat |
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Directions: |
S35°04.790, E117°58.060 Has a yellow special marker on top and surrounded by 10 mooring bouys. 6 yellow commercial and 4 red public. |
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Dive Site Information: |
The ship was brought from the USA in 1963 and was decommonisned from servive in 1999. It had done 2 tours in Vietnam where is was last last Austrailan warship to be hit by enemy fire. The ship is 133 metres long 14.2 metres wide and 42.7 metres tall. It was fitted with 2 5inch guns, of which only one of these guns are still on-board. |
Tourist Rock – Cheynes Beach |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
13metres |
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Average Visibility: |
15metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
10metres |
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Dive Type: |
Shore |
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Directions: |
80Kms east of Albany at Cheynes Beach. |
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Dive Site Information: |
Step entry from granite rocks. Good safe shore dive and the diver can either swim east or west along the face. Good selection of marine growth and fish life. Best in all winds except e – s/e. Good for all levels of divers. |
Mutton Bird Island |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
12metres |
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Average Visibility: |
15metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
8metres |
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Dive Type: |
Shore |
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Directions: |
Located 20kms due west of Albany. |
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Dive Site Information: |
Comfortable shore dive either from beach if you have 4wd or if not it is a 100m walk down a hill from the car park with your equipment. Easy entry from sandy beach. Large island in front of beach is Shelter Island and Mutton Bird island is around to the left of the beach. This is a good shore dive for newly qualified divers and is quite a good night dive. |
Middle Rock – Herald Reef |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
17metres |
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Average Visibility: |
20metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
12metres |
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Dive Type: |
Boat |
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Directions: |
Located on between Michaelmas Island and Herald Reef. |
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Dive Site Information: |
A beautiful limestone reef. Kelpy on to but on the sides of the reef and under the reef is beauty beyond belief. Colour and marine life found normally in excess of 30 metres. A must visit site for photographers. |
Little Beach – Two People’s Bay |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
12metres |
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Average Visibility: |
20metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
10metres |
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Dive Type: |
Shore |
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Directions: |
26 kms due east of Albany in the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve. |
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Dive Site Information: |
Easy shore dive. 50 Metres from car park to beach. Dive around to the left of the beach. All granite formations. Sponge and plate coral are everwhere and the fish life is prolific. Best in all weather except easterly. Great night dive if conditions are ok. Excellent for photography. |
Gia Batta Patch |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
12metres |
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Average Visibility: |
15metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Open Water |
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Average Depth: |
10metres |
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Dive Type: |
Boat |
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Directions: |
Located NW of Michaelmas Reef in and east of Seal Rock. |
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Dive Site Information: |
Small limestone reef which caters for a levels of diving. Abundant in marine life and sponge formations. Great night dive. |
Football Field |
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Location: |
Albany, Western Australia |
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Travel Time (ex-Perth): |
4.5hrs by car |
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Maximum Depth: |
60metres |
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Average Visibility: |
25metres |
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Dive Rating: |
Deep |
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Average Depth: |
35metres |
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Dive Type: |
Boat |
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Directions: |
1km East of Breaksea Island. |
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Dive Site Information: |
Excellent site for deep air divers to 40m. Technical divers and tri mix divers dream. Shallowest point 16 metres and shopes off into canyons with huge bombies covered in masses of sponge growth, huge gorgonians, black coral. The fish life is huge and lots of it. Levels out to 66metres on the southern side. This site is occassionally subject to an unpredictable current and should be dived with local dive guides. Photograpghers will not have enough film in their camera to cover the endless changing environment. |
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Excellent site for deep air divers to 40m. Technical divers and tri mix divers dream. Shallowest point 16 metres and shopes off into canyons with huge bombies covered in masses of sponge growth, huge gorgonians, black coral. The fish life is huge and lots of it. Levels out to 66metres on the southern side. This site is occassionally subject to an unpredictable current and should be dived with local dive guides. Photograpghers will not have enough film in their camera to cover the endless changing environment. |
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