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Diving & Snorkelling
WA's fascinating diving and snorkelling locations include stunning marine parks and ship-
wrecks.
Close to Perth, divers can explore wrecks and marine life off the beaches of Rottnest Is-
land, or explore the submerged reefs and historic shipwrecks of the West Coast Dive Park
within Shoalwater Islands Marine Park, near Rockingham. You can take a dive course in
Geographe Bay with companies based in Dunsborough or Busselton; the bay offers excel-
lent dives under the Busselton jetty, on Four Mile Reef (a 40km limestone ledge about
6.5km off the coast) and the scuttled HMAS
Swan
.
Other wrecks include the HMAS
Perth
(at 36m), deliberately sunk in 2001 in King Ge-
orge Sound near Albany; and the
Sanko Harvest,
near Esperance. Both teem with marine
life on the wrecks' artificial reefs.
Divers seeking warmer water should head north. Staggering marine life can be found just
100m offshore within the Ningaloo Marine Park, fantastic for both diving and snorkelling.
In Turquoise Bay, underwater action is equally accessible, and one of the planet's most
amazing underwater experiences is diving or snorkelling alongside the incredible whale
shark, the world's largest fish. Tours leave from Exmouth and Coral Bay.
There's also excellent diving and snorkelling around the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
