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Moreton Bay Marine Park

The Moreton Bay Marine Park waters are home to some amazing dive sites and marine life with experiences suitable for the beginner to the experienced technical diver. Please note that due to the nature of the unpredictable conditions we experience, we cannot guarantee a specific dive site for your trip. While we will do our best to get you there, all sites are subject to conditions, diver experience level, and minimum numbers.

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Details	Description
SNO	Suitable for snorkelling if surface conditions allow
OW	Site less than 18m depth, generally sheltered from current/swell
ADV	Less than 30m, some current, surface conditions can vary
Master Diver	Depths to 40m, prone to strong currents, live drop/pick up likely
XR	Depth 20-45m, current, live drop/pickup, suitable for decompression dives
TXR	Deeper than 45m, trained and equipped technical divers only

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Amity Point

Depth –5-15m

Difficulty level –OW/SNO

A shore dive option commonly used for night dives or course dives when the weather offshore istoo rough, Amity Point is an easily accessed site teeming with resident wildlife, including wobbegong sharks, large schools of fish, and the occasional dolphin and bull shark. Some care is needed as this site is very tidal, with the best diving being an hour before the top of the high tide. Hazards include fishing lines, boat traffic, tidal movement, and a large population of stonefish, which means some care is needed when diving this site.

Amity driftdive

Depth –5-15m

Difficulty level –Adv with 50+ dives

A drift dive for those after a bit of adventure or rocking a Suex diver propulsion vehicle (*link to Suex scooter page), this is a drift dive conducted on an incoming tide starting at Flinders Beach and ending at Amity Pier. Best done 2-3hrs before the top of the high tide, divers drifting along in the current will spot bull sharks, dolphins, resident schooling fish along with hiding crayfish. With several small shipwrecks along the wayto poke around in, this is anoften-overlookeddive with lots of potential

Shag Rock

Depth –5 –18m

Difficulty level -OW

Our closest site to shore is located 800m directly from Home Beach. This is a fantastic “macro” site home to a wide variety of marine life, including turtles, wobbegong sharks, large schools of pomfrets and other sub-tropical fish and unique critters such as mantis shrimp and ghost pipefish. With several diveable sites around the two rock outcrops, this is a terrific area for divers of all levels and spectacular for photographers.

Manta Bommie

Depth –5-15m

Difficulty level –OW/ADV/SNO

The site from which Manta Lodge gets its name is one of Australia’s top 10 dive sites. This location of three rock outcrops known collectively as ‘The Group’ comes alive in the summer months (Oct-April) as migrating manta rays stop off to access the cleaning stations on several shallow bommies. Along with plenty of manta magic, you’ll also see large numbers of leopard sharks, guitarfish, several species of large stingray, and marvel at octopus hidden in the rocks. While it can be a challenging dive with the area prone to current and swell, it’s a must-dive site for all divers to get their ‘manta moment’.

Turtle Cave

Depth –10-30m

Difficulty level –ADV

Located on the NW side of Flat Rock, this is a spectacular site home to varied marine life, both large and small. Located several kilometres offshore, excellent visibility is more common out here due to prevailing currents (‘The EAC, dude!’). Divers can marvel at large schools of inquisitive batfish, sneaky barracuda, majestic turtles, and several species of pelagic sharks that also frequent the area. Over winter, large fevers of eagle rays, grey nurse sharks -and even humpback whales! -are spotted by lucky divers here. This site is also the chosen destination for our yearly solo-visiting whale shark, which has popped in for a day or two the last few years between February and April, to our surprise and delight.

Shark Alley

Depth –18-26m

Difficulty level -ADV

Like sharks and winter diving? Then this site is for you! Located on the opposite side of Flat Rock from Turtle Cave, we predominantly dive this site in winter when large numbers of grey nurse sharks reside on the sand channel between the two large sections of the reef. Humpback whales are also common in this area, along with the odd bull shark or sandbar whaler. A terrific place to get up close with some large sharks!

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The Nursery

Depth –4-18m

Difficulty level –OW/SNO

A magic site best dived when we have strong northerly winds, this shallow site is home to lots of juvenile fish and pretty plant and coral life.

Big Bay

Depth –8-18m

Difficulty level –OW/ADV/SNO

On the northern (ocean) side of Flat Rock, we’ll usually head here when we have strong westerly winds and/or swell hitting the other areas of Flat Rock.

Middle Reef

Depth –15-27m

Difficulty level –ADV

Usually hammered by current and often forgotten, this large reef area is similar in composition to Shag Rock, with several large pinnacles and overhangs home to turtles and wobbegong sharks.

Artificial Reef

Depth –14m

Difficulty level –OW

Installed in late 2019, while we are not actively running trips to this site yet, it will be a great site once its ecosystem is established. With large metal structures that are already showing some marine growth, attracting a range of marine life, it will be a great entry-level site in the future.

South Gorge

Depth –5-14m

Difficulty level –OW/SNO

Commonly a snorkel destination when strong northerly winds are up, this site has a unique little cave to explore called ‘The Cathedral’ and is a great place to look for dolphins, rays, and other life passing through the area.

Roaring Deep

Depth –20-34m

Difficulty level –Master Diver/XR

A favourite dive of the Manta Lodge staff, this drift dive is for experienced divers who love their dives at high speed with an overload of marine life. Starting at the Turtle Cave mooring, this dive involves a drift around the ocean side of Flat Rock, finishing either at Shark Alley’s mooring or in a blue water ascent, where you may encounter large numbers of pelagic whaler sharks that frequent the deep waters in the area. With large fevers of rays, schools of Queensland groupers, bull sharks, sandbar whalers, barracuda, tuna, and even humpback whales (when in season), this dive, while challenging, is also the most rewarding.

Boat Rock

Depth –20-35m

Difficulty level –Master diver/XR

Sitting out in the high current area, this rocky outcrop has near-vertical walls dropping straight down to 25m. Current is nearly always running here, so divers are usually limited to the area behind the island in the lee of the current. This is another great dive to utilise our rental Suex scooters to explore the other smaller underwater pinnacles located nearby. Large pelagic sharks and barracuda are common here as they wait in the current for something tasty to swim by.

Blue Corner

Depth –28-45m

Difficulty level –Master Diver/XR

A short swim due north of the Shark Alley mooring is a section of deep reef known as Blue Corner. The top of the reef area is around 28m, dropping down to 40-45m on the sand. Large bull sharks frequent the area, and the reef is home to a cornucopia of varied marine life weaving in and out of the reef’s many nooks and crannies. This area can be prone to current, so divers need to be confident and capable of a free ascent from the reef to the surface.

Bull Shark Bommie

Depth –7-28m

Difficulty level –Master Diver

Located several hundred metres north of the Turtle Cave mooring, Bullshark Bommie is a large rock bommie rising from 28m up to 7m at its shallowest point. It can only be dived on calm days as waves are known to break on it when the swell is up. Named for the large bull sharks that frequent the seabed around the bommie, this site is nearly always subject to current, so experience in drift diving is a must.Along with the sharks, you’ll encounter large Queensland groupers, fevers of cownose, mobula, and eagle rays,the odd turtle (and maybe even a whale, when in season

Seven's Reef

Depth –20-48m

Difficulty level –XR/TXR –Experienced technical divers

A large reef with huge 20m+ pinnacles rising from the seabed, Seven’s Reef is a well known ‘sharky’ fishing spotlocated north of Flat Rock.With the shallowest point sitting at 20m from the surface and the bottom reaching close to 50m, this is an area prone to unpredictable visibility and strong currents at times. Marine life we’ve had at this site includes a large population of whaler sharks (bull, sandbar, bronze), humpback and minke whales, and even the odd white pointer! It’s not uncommon to pass sharks on the descent as they head to the surface, attracted by the sound of divers splashing into the water. With the size of the reef area, this site is spectacular when utilising a Suex DPV.

29 Fathom Reef

Depth –51-62m

Difficulty level –TXR

This site is Mantas’ newest dive site and one we’ve just recently started exploring. This deep reef is located off Moreton Island, nearly straight east of South Channel, with a large section of reef stretching several kilometres and rising 5-10m off the sea bed. Due to regular fishing activity and infrequent dive visits, this area is prone to very active shark activity. At the bottom, large schools of baitfish hide from the barracuda and kingfish that zip in to hunt. Currents in this area can be strong and can also change at depth, so experience in open ocean decompression is a must to dive this site.

AHS Centaur

Depth –2059m

Difficulty level –James Cameron

Located 23 nautical miles E/NE of Point Lookout lies the wreck of the hospital ship AHS Centaur, which was torpedoed by imperial Japanese submarine I-177 on 14thMay 1943, with a loss of 268 lives.While this site is not one we visit (due to its extreme depth and the fact that it’s a war grave), it is an essential piece of Australian maritime history and a sad reminder of a time when global conflict reached our doorstep.