Royal Dalton

Easy dive site for new and not yet qualified divers. Descend to the 8m bottom. Explore the reef and rubble-filled bottom out towards the drop-off. Then work on those navigation skills on the return to the dive boat.

Lots of historic equipment on the bottom here for those who need iron in their diving diet. Several cables from Direction island, plus 2 large winches that we assume were used to pull the cables ashore from the ship. Also plenty of coral and fish for those not interested in man made “junk.“

With some imagination, the two large coral outcrops at Two Ridges looks like a sunken upside down catamaran hull. Kat the dugong was a regular visitor to this site.

Popular site for all levels of divers. Lots to see on top of the reef shallower than 20m. Experienced divers can venture out into the blue to swim with the black trevally and look down at the cruising sharks and dogtooth tuna. The expert diver can slip down the wall to 40m to enjoy the fans and a cave.

Easy afternoon dive site after a relaxing lunch on Direction Island. Kat our resident dugong is sighted regularly here. Also a favourite location for dolphins and mantas entering or leaving the lagoon.

This is an anchoring site near Two Caves. Look for old communication cables connecting Direction Island to Australia and the world. Sadly it appears that Kat the dugong may have moved on to green sea grass pastures.

This is a wreck dive site of a sunken Sri Lankan people smuggler. The vessel carried a load of refugees to the Australian mainland. Coast Watch photographed the vessel, however, it was unable to apprehend while in Australian waters. A week later she arrived at Cocos Islands claiming to be poor lost fishermen.

Perfect first dive for our Cocos Dive Open Water Student. Sandy bottom with reef for the new diver to explore. Easy navigation, clean water, and marine life. Lots of branching corals.

For many years this was a manta cleaning station. For some unknown reason, the mantas no longer use this site. It is a popular training site for new divers. Keep it in your log book however most likely to dive the new cleaning station.

Broccoli Patch is a great dive site for new and not yet qualified divers. Easy descent from the boat to a 5m sandy bottom. Slow ascend to 3m then drop down slowly to 9m. A perfect location for dive students working on their buoyancy skills.