Adelaide and coastal South Australia have a rich and diverse range of dive sites. This is a temperate diving zone where the water might get down to 10C in winter and rarely above 22C in summer. Visibility ranges from 1m to 20m, usually around 7-10m. While this may deter some of our northern divers, it provides those of us privileged to dive here a wide range of unspoilt sites with a wide variety fish life and beautiful soft corals.
Just off the Adelaide coast, there are a few wrecks (such as the Dredge), artifical tyre reefs and ledge-type reefs that provide easy and varied diving. In the southern suburbs, Port Noarlunga would have to be one of the easiest and most popular jetty dives.
Further south from Adelaide, Rapid Bay is one of the best jetty dives in Australia, blessed with leafy sea dragons, thousands of pike and old wives, and a myriad of metal pylons (great for getting lost at night!).
