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Dive Shop 03 5985 1700 Service Centre 03 5985 5440 Home Online Dive Shop Shop Advice Service & Repairs Dive Trips Dive Courses Dive Resources About Us Contact Us Home / Dive Resources / Melbourne Dive Sites / Melbourne Wall Dives Home Online Dive Shop Shop Advice Melbourne Wall Dives SOME OF THE COOLEST WALL DIVING SITES IN THE WORLD Service & Repairs Dive Trips Online Dive Shop Dive Courses Check out The Scuba Dive Resources Doctor Online Dive Shop. Melbourne Dive Sites Australia's largest online Melbourne Shore Dives range of quality scuba Melbourne Wreck products at low prices. Dives More Victoria Wreck Dives Melbourne Boat Dives Melbourne Bommie Dives Melbourne Drift Dives Melbourne Pier Dives Melbourne Reef Dives Bulk Buy Trimix Fills Melbourne Wall Our partial pressure blending Dives system, booster pump and Melbourne Other Dives He/O2 analysers make it Melbourne Dive Sites possible for us to prepare Map any Trimix blend for your Melbourne Dive Site GPS Marks dive cylinders and rebreather Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Recent Dive Sites Once you've made your first wall dive in Melbourne, you'll be hooked. Our coral units. For our up-to-date Diving in Melbourne and sponge covered underwater walls are some of the coolest dive sites, and are prices on Trimix fills, please Currents filled with sea creatures big and small. use our Trimix Calculator. Diving the Back Beaches More Victorian Shipwreck Tucked into the coral and sponge plastered beauty of these vertical reefs are a Protected Zones Buy Helium in bulk and save host of underwater creatures that like to shelter in the nooks, crannies, ledges Snorkelling in on your Trimix fills. More and small caves that punctuate the drop-off. Turn your attention away from the Melbourne Melbourne Snorkelling wall and look out in the blue, where there's the chance of seeing the unexpected Sites — from sharks to large schools of fish. Snapper can often be found in open Dive Site Selection water. Weather, Tides, Newsletter Conditions etc. [ Top ] Please sign up to receive Spider Crabs Melbourne news, plus the latest deals Weedy Seadragons Melbourne and discounts! Boat access Diving Articles 12lb Reef Frequently Asked 12lb Reef is located on the Lonsdale Wall. It was named after a massive crayfish indicates required Questions * that was caught there. The story goes that a cray diver caught site of the monster Scuba Diving Email Address * Downloads in its cave, and grabbed it. Maybe it's more accurate to say that the cray caught Dive Links him! By the time he reached the surface, the two were still locked in a mortal Melbourne Web Cams struggle! Nevertheless, there could well be more large crays still lurking here, so First Name Melbourne Boat if you fancy your skills as a cray hunter it's definitely worth a look. The many Launching Ramps Scuba Diving Glossary overhangs and plentiful soft corals make this a popular and picturesque dive as Scuba Equipment well. Last Name Manuals Diver Communications Latitude: 38° 17.093′ S (38.284883° S / 38° 17′ 5.58″ S) Diver Emergency Longitude: 144° 38.340′ E (144.639° E / 144° 38′ 20.4″ E) About Us Datum: WGS84 Google Map Subscribe Contact Us Added: 2012-07-22 01:00:00 GMT, Last updated: 2018-01-16 20:51:55 GMT Source: Peter Fear GPS (verified) More Dive Shop Specials Nearest Neighbour: The Grotto, 36 m, bearing 136°, SE Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Depth: 8 to 20 m. Dive only on: SWF, SWE. Boat access Apollo Bio-Fin Stainless 16lb Reef Steel Spring $25.00 $22.00 Get $3.00 (12%) Off 16lb Reef was supposedly home to one of the biggest crays ever seen around Port Phillip. Originally spotted by a cray diver who was unable to reach it, the cray remained the stuff of legend until its existance was confirmed several years later. As far as anyone knows it is still there. 16lb Reef is located on Lonsdale Wall, near the heads. There are many overhangs and small dropoffs, with a wide variety of fish including the Sonar Velox Full Foot Fins spectacular Blue Devil. (Young Adult Size 3-4) This site lies in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The park is made up $35.00 $19.00 of six separate marine areas around the southern end of Port Phillip: Swan Bay, Get $16.00 (46%) Off Mud Islands, Point Lonsdale, Point Nepean, Popes Eye, and Portsea Hole. See also, Parks Victoria: Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, and Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park - Map (PDF 1.4 MB). Latitude: 38° 17.654′ S (38.294233° S / 38° 17′ 39.24″ S) Longitude: 144° 37.478′ E (144.624633° E / 144° 37′ 28.68″ E) Faber Steel Cylinder - 232 Datum: WGS84 Google Map bar - 15 litre - DIN/K Valve Added: 2012-07-22 01:00:00 GMT, Last updated: 2018-01-27 21:17:20 GMT $780.00 $599.00 Source: GPS Get $181.00 (23%) Off Nearest Neighbour: Foggy Reef, 92 m, bearing 52°, NE Depth: 12 to 18 m. Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Captain Nitro Drop Off Boat access Ocean Pro Grommet The Drop-Off is located on the Western end of Spectacular Reef, and consists of Steamer Wetsuit (Boys) - a series of walls that plunge to over 60 metres in 5 to 10 metre increments. This 2.5mm makes it a great dive for advanced levels. Huge boulders the size of houses are $79.00 $69.00 scattered over the area, lying where the ancient Yarra River deposited them. Get $10.00 (13%) Off Midwater, large fish can often be spotted as they make their way into the bay, and if you are lucky seals and dolphins are also occasional visitors. Pardon the inconvenience, but our servers have detected a high number of errors from your connection. To continue, Salvimar Dymax Spear please verify that you are a human: Fishing Cord - 1.4mm / 250kg - 50m $197.00 $179.00 I'm not a robot Get $18.00 (9%) Off reCAPTCHA Privacy - Terms Diving Captain Nitro's Dropoff from Alan Beckhurst on Vimeo. Latitude: 38° 17.330′ S (38.288833° S / 38° 17′ 19.8″ S) Longitude: 144° 39.716′ E (144.661933° E / 144° 39′ 42.96″ E) Datum: WGS84 Google Map Added: 2012-07-22 01:00:00 GMT, Last updated: 2018-01-23 19:57:23 GMT Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Source: GPS Nearest Neighbour: North Wall / Spectacular Reef, 102 m, bearing 95°, E Depth: 16 to 60 m. Dive only on: SWF, SWE. Devils Dropoff Boat access One of the most popular dive sites on Lonsdale wall, this site begins with a huge dropoff from 12 to 30 metres and continues with a series of ledges, overhangs and swim-throughs and then gently slopes to 55 metres plus. This is also the habitat of the Southern Blue Devil fish which can be spotted all along the wall here. Their placid nature and vibrant blue colour also makes them great for photography. You will also come across many other species of marine life here as the site lies in the Marine Park. At 27 metres there is a long overhang to follow covered in a large variety of soft corals and small fans. A spectacular dive site with something for everyone. Latitude: 38° 17.602′ S (38.293367° S / 38° 17′ 36.12″ S) Longitude: 144° 38.658′ E (144.6443° E / 144° 38′ 39.48″ E) Datum: WGS84 Google Map Added: 2012-07-22 01:00:00 GMT, Last updated: 2018-01-23 20:04:42 GMT Source: GPS Nearest Neighbour: The Abyss, 58 m, bearing 307°, NW Depth: 12 to 55 m. Dive only on: SWE. Boat access Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD Foggy Reef At the very Southern end of the Lonsdale wall system sits Foggy Reef. As you may have guessed this site was named as the fog rolled and this amazing part of the wall was found. The top of the reef is around 8 metres. Swimming North East from the shot you will find the edge wall, dropping over the wall you can descend to around 25 metres. From this point if you follow the wall to the south it will curve around to the East. About 20 metres from where you go over the edge there is a huge old admiralty anchor embedded in the wall. You will need to look carefully though as it is encrusted with the same colourful growth as the wall. Directly opposite this site lying in the sand are two old cannons. Unfortunately the sand movement in this area means that sometimes the cannons are buried. After you have had a look around, turn back the way you came and follow the wall North for the rest of your dive. Check out the amazing overhangs undercuts and the colourful soft corals and sponges that are prolific in this area. It also goes without saying to note the fish and marine life attracted to this terrain. This site lies in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The park is made up of six separate marine areas around the southern end of Port Phillip: Swan Bay, Mud Islands, Point Lonsdale, Point Nepean, Popes Eye, and Portsea Hole. See also, Parks Victoria: Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, and Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park - Map (PDF 1.4 MB).
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