Dive with marine life · 2026 guide
Fast, acrobatic and endlessly curious — the highlight of Montague Island, Jervis Bay and Port Phillip.
Present year-round at the main colonies, with winter often producing the most active and interactive encounters.
These 5 sites are where australian & new zealand fur seals encounters are best documented, with the operators who dive them.
1Port Phillip Heads, Victoria
Walls starting at 12 metres and continuing beyond 90 — the terrain behind Victoria's technical culture.
That range makes the region relevant simultaneously to recreational wall diving, deep training, decompression diving, Trimix and full technical diving. Very few Australian sites serve that entire spectrum.
Look for: Australian & New Zealand Fur Seals
Full Port Phillip Heads Walls guide →
2Jervis Bay, New South Wales
Temperate sponge-covered walls and drop-offs in some of the clearest water in NSW.
Water clarity here is frequently better than anywhere else on the NSW coast, which changes what the diving feels like — the walls read as genuinely dramatic rather than merely deep.
Look for: Australian & New Zealand Fur Seals, Eastern Blue Groper, Port Jackson Shark, Weedy Seadragon
3Port Lincoln, South Australia
Australia's only great white shark cage location — surface-supplied, not certified scuba.
The activity is typically surface-supplied or snorkel-based rather than certified scuba diving, and it should be classified as wildlife tourism rather than as a dive site in the usual sense.
Look for: Australian & New Zealand Fur Seals, Great White Shark
Full Neptune Islands guide →
4Narooma, New South Wales
A granite island nine kilometres offshore with a substantial fur seal colony.
The granite terrain, kelp and gutters around the island hold a good range of temperate species alongside the seals.
Look for: Australian & New Zealand Fur Seals, Humpback Whale
Underwater Safaris Narooma
5Port Phillip Heads, Victoria
Victoria's signature wall — sponge-covered, vertical, and continuing well past recreational depth.
The shallower sections are within reach of competent recreational divers on slack water; the deeper sections are a genuine technical undertaking.
Look for: Australian & New Zealand Fur Seals
Full Lonsdale Wall guide →Sites are chosen from our dive-site database and ordered by how well documented they are: flagship status, the number of operators we have confirmed dive there, and the marine life recorded. Nobody pays to be listed.
No. Listings and order come from our research only. Businesses can ask us to correct their details, but not to change their position.
It is generated from the directory's latest research, checked in 2026. Conditions, operators and seasons change — confirm details with the operator before you book.
