Diving Brisbane: The City and the Ship
Diving Brisbane: the city and the ship. Brisbane is a popular dive centre, particularly to view HMAS Brisbane, a guided-missile destroyer that was sunk in mid-2005 to create an artificial reef about 3 nautical miles offshore. Lying upright on a sandy floor, the ship is a great diving experience.
The dive company you choose will determine the sites you can visit. Here are a list of sites that are handy for day trips and vacationers:
Mantis Diving at mantisdive.com.au Nautilus Scuba Centre at nautilusscuba.com.au Pro Dive at brisbanediving.com.au
It isn't an exhaustive list. You'll need to call around the dive shops to decide for yourself what you want to see.
The sites have suitably evocative names like Castle Rock, Plateau, The Cave, Mudjimba Island (Old Woman Island), Hanging Rock, Pinnacles, St Paul's wreck, 35 metre Pinnacle, Flinders Reef, Henderson's and Brennan's Shoals, Smiths Rock, Curtin Artificial Reef, Pines Ledge, the Aahrus wreck, and Hutchisons Reef.
Marine life you may see on your dive, depending on where and the time you visit, include many colorful and intricately-shaped hard and soft corals, sponges, anenomes, nudibranches, shoals of
surgeon fish and fusiliers, the occasional turtle, moray eels,
leopard sharks (harmless, in case you're wondering), wobbegong
sharks, as well as bat fish, butterfly fish, barracuda, squirrel fish, and the really big one -- trevally.
This being the Pacific Ocean, corals make up a large part of the experience and these can also be viewed from snorkeling trips -- for those who don't dive.
And this being Australia, snorkeling may also require a wetsuit, known as a 'stinger suit', because at certain times of the year a type of jellyfish, so small it's barely visible to the eye, comes in close to the shore and can inflict a nasty sting that requires serious medication to alleviate.
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The area for diving from Brisbane is Moreton Bay & Flinders Reef, Cook Island Marine Park, and Stradbroke Island.
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