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Sydney Whale Watching |
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Sydney's #1 Whale Watching Experience!! Departing 5 days a week from Manly and Rose Bay Wharf. |
Shark Diver Speciality |
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Pro Dive's Shark Diver Speciality is designed to reduce the prejudice often associated with Sharks. Sydney has some of the best Shark Dive sites in Australia. Dive without fear with sharks and be able to recognise the many different species found around Sydney.Take your diving skills to the next level and contribute towards ongoing shark conservation. |
Mike Ball Minke Whale Expeditions |
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Minke Whale Season is just around the corner. During the months of June and July, the Dwarf Minke Whales are found along the Ribbon Reefs. 2012 will be the 17th year that Mike Ball Dive Expeditions has been involved with the James Cook University Dwarf Minke Whale Research Programme. Here is an opportunity for you to participate in this great collaboration! |
Off Season Boat Dive Packages |
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Purchase one of our NEW 'Dive Season' 5-Double-Boat-Dive Off Peak Packages from a bargain price of just $315.75 (for those just needing tanks and weight hire). That's only $62.55 per trip! |
Dive and Stay Packages |
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Check out the Great Barrier Reef on one of our Short Break packages. These packages include 2 nights accommodation and the 3 Day/ 2 nights Outer Reef Liveaboard trip on MV Scuba Pro. Advanced Openwater Courses is an optional extra. |
The third largest city in Australia and Queensland's capital, Brisbane was once regarded as just a big country town. Today a variety of cafes, restaurants and specialised eateries; heactares of landscaped gardens and a host of sports and entertainment venures give Brisbane a modern sphisticated sense of style. Even better, good diving lies just kilomentres off shore in Moreton Bay.
Located just 2.5 kilometres from Byron Bay, one of Australia's most popular travel destinations, the Julian Rocks Marine Park is rated as one of the top ten scuba diving locations anywhere in Australia. The mixing of tropical warm currents with cooler temperate waters makes the diving around Byron Bay unique. There is an amazing diversity and abundance of fish life with over 600 recorded species of tropical, temperate and pelagic fish. Whales, Dolphins, Manta Rays, Leopard Sharks, the endangered Grey Nurse Shark and three species of Turtle are all common visitors to the Julian Rocks. All the action is just 10 minutes from Byron's main beach!
Long a popular destination for holiday-makers from around New South Wales, this seaside resort area about two hours drive north of Sydney now draws dive enthusiasts by the boat load. The attractions include rocky reefs and shoals, caves, drop- offs and a few shipwrecks. One of the most interesting sires is an old mooring area littered with the rusting old car engines, steel beams and chains that once kept the fishing fleet from drifting away. Wrasse, bream, whiting, morwong, perch, flathead and small stingrays love the place
Lord Howe is breathtakingly beautiful. At the southern end, their peaks often shrouded by mist, Mt Gower and Lidgbird soar 800 metres above the island. Below are rolling hills and cool rainforests of native kentia palms and giant banyans, the world's largest tree. The Island is also blessed with pristine white beaches.
Port Stephens (Nelson Bay) is a beautiful, relaxed holiday area located 230 km north of Sydney. This picturesque, blue-water bay is bordered by clean beaches, rugged bushland and a number of weather-beaten offshore islands. Diving outside the bay is fantastic, with plenty of reefs, deep drop-offs and a number of historic shipwrecks. Even inside the bay, the diving is great boasting three of the top shore dives on the east coast of Australia.
Sydney has temperate water diving, where the water temp varies from 15 to 24 degrees and visibility averages about 10 to 15 meters throughout the year but often experiences 25-30m during winter. There is a huge variety of fish life sponges soft corals and there over 40 dives sites to choose from. In Sydney the type of marine life you can see such as Weedy Sea Dragons, Giant Cuttlefish, Blue Grouper, Bull Rays, Wobbygong shark, Port Jackson shark and of course Grey Nurse sharks plus hundreds of other species of fish. The marine life you will see varies, depending of time of the year.
Sydney has temperate water diving, where the water temp varies from 15 to 24 degrees and visibility averages about 10 to 15 meters throughout the year but often experiences 25-30m during winter. There is a huge variety of fish life sponges soft corals and there over 40 dives sites to choose from. In Sydney the type of marine life you can see such as Weedy Sea Dragons, Giant Cuttlefish, Blue Grouper, Bull Rays, Wobbygong shark, Port Jackson shark and of course Grey Nurse sharks plus hundreds of other species of fish. The marine life you will see varies, depending of time of the year.
Cairns is the best known city on the Queensland coast, a tropical, laid-back yet modern centre. Cairns is the international gateway into Tropical North Queensland. Residents of the area are also proud to be custodians of two of the world's greatest natural treasures- the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics Rainforests. Both of these wonderful attractions are World Heritage listed, and there are very few places on Earth where two such treasures rest side by side.To scuba divers, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef represents some of the finest and most exotic diving and snorkelling in the world. The Great Barrier Reef is a 2,300km chain of coral reefs and beyond this structure of living organisms lies the cleanest body of water on the globe!
Because of the close proximity of the Atlantic Ocean we benefit from Mediterranean conditions, but the cross-over of open ocean. In the waters around Marbella the type of marine life you can see such as Thousands of Scorpion Fish, Giant Sea Fingers, Conger and Moray Eels, Sun Fish, Giant Sea Fans, Mediterranean Trigger Fish reefs covered in Orange Star Coral and of course many Giant Spiny Spider Crabs plus hundreds of other species of fish and coral. The marine life you will see varies, depending of time of the year.




