DIVE CHARTERS

Our fully surveyed charter boat, OCEAN DIVE, is purpose built for diving and fishing. It is an 8.4 metre 'Alfarm Fisher' built in Victoria out of aluminum with the same hull design as their Bass Strait rescue boats. It is powered by a 225hp outboard and has all the current safety equipment and emergency oxygen. It also has VHF radio (to keep in touch with Air-Sea Rescue) and a mobile phone, as well as all the latest electronic navigation equipment. Sit-down tank racks and a proper dive boarding ladder. It also has a full canopy to protect you from the sun as well as side curtains to protect divers from the wind during surface intervals. Max of 10 divers!

Dive Charters

Price all double dives

$130 - includes cylinders and weights - $130
$170 - includes all other equipment - $170

Dive Locations

All Levels

COOK ISLAND MARINE RESERVE: The area around Cook Island has some of the best variety of dive sites in one area. Dives range from caves and tunnels on the seaward side to beautiful hard and soft corals on gradually sloping ledges to sandy flats loved by rays and Leopard Sharks, it is an ideal site for exploring on scuba and by snorkel. Depths range from 4-22m. It used to be called Turtle Island, named so by Capt Cook due to the abundance of turtles at the Island. It is home to the Green, Hawskbill and Loggerhead turtles. There is a wealth of marine life here from tiny nudibranchs and pipefish to Leopard sharks, shovel nose rays, Eagle rays and much, much more.

Cook Island

BOB'S GULLY: This reef emerged from the sand after a storm in October, 1993. We have been watching it grow from a barren rocky reef to an area covered with marine growth and kelp forest. Good dive. 12-18m.
FIDO REEF: Huge expanse of reef with almost 15 different dive sites. Ideal for drift diving and exploring. Has a 90-year-old wreck, the SS Fido. 4-24m.
S.S. ALBERTA: More than 100-year-old shipwreck. Excellent shallow dive and ideal skin diving. 6-12m.
TURTLE COVE: Lying in 14m just out from the Northern side of Cook Island is a rocky reef which is a favourite resting place for the big turtles and Shovel Nose Rays.

For the more experienced and adventurous diver we have

NINE MILE REEF: Advanced dive. A number of different dive sites The main one being Shark Alley with grey nurse sharks in winter and leopard sharks and bullrays in summer with lots of pelagic fish. 7-33m.
90 FOOT (BALLAST ROCK) REEF: Excellent deep dive with large ballast rocks stacked on the sand. 23-33m.
THE CANYONS: Deep, advanced dive only. Spur of reef with big splits and caves joining most of them. 16-35m.
KINGSCLIFF PINNACLE: Superb advanced dive. A pinnacle of rock coming out of the sand with a cave on the south side and a semi-flat top. 16-33m.
RONNIE'S ROCKS: Deep dive. Advanced only. The reef rises only 5 metres out of the sand. Superb fish and coral life. Grey nurse sharks and large pelagic fish. 30-35m.
THE BOULDERS: Large boulders sitting on the sand next to each other, forming caves and tunnels. 18-26m
G-SPOT REEF: Open water to advanced dive with sheer walls, caves and tunnels. Grey nurse sharks and leopard sharks in season. Hundreds of fish. A top dive. 12-28m.