Great Barrier Reef and SS Yongala

For divers and snorkellers looking to experience the Great Barrier Reef and SS Yongala then our 3-day-3-night liveaboard is the best option.

Length: 3-day-3-night 

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Trip inclusions

  • 10 dives, including 2 night dives and 2 dives at the SS Yongala
  • Accommodation in air-conditioned cabins for the whole trip
  • All bed linen
  • All meals
  • Site mooring fees
  • Tanks and weights for divers
  • Snorkelling equipment for snorkellers

Terms and conditions apply. You can find our terms and conditions here.

Price

Accommodation Type

Dive

Snorkel

3/4 Share bunks

$1,062

$885

Twin room

$1,104

$920

Double room

$2,292

$955

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Optional extras

  • Full dive equipment hire $95 (all three days)
  • Guided dive $20 (per dive)
  • Adventure dive $35 (per dive)
  • Nitrox fills $50 for first fill and $20 for consecutive fills (certification or training required)
  • Nitrox course $280
  • Advanced course $354
  • $65 dive torch purchase including batteries
  • $30 dive torch hire for duration of the trip (incl. one set of batteries)
  • Camera hire: 1 Day $85; 3 day $130; (SD card – yours to keep)

Sample itinerary

Departs: Townsville

Boarding: 8pm at Townsville, departing 10pm

  • Day 1: Two dives at Vic’s Patches, Keeper Reef and two dives (including night dive) at Student Bommie, Wheeler Reef
  • Day 2: Two dives on Peacock Bommie, Davies Reef and two dives (including night dive) at Barra Bommie, Little Broadhurst Reef
  • Day 3: Two morning dives on the SS Yongala Wreck (subject to weather)

Return to Townsville, disembarking at approximately 4.30pm

Reef sites we visit

The central section of the Great Barrier Reef offers some of the best spots for diving and snorkelling. Our experienced crew will select the best sites to visit on the day based on weather conditions.

Peacock Bommie 

Peacock Bommie at Davies Reef rises from depths of more than 30 metres up to 5 metres from the surface. Schools of fusiliers, fairy basslets and snappers explode around you, as larger pelagic fish cruise past. Waft away clouds of glassfish to uncover pipefish, cleaner shrimp, and count the number of coral cod.

Vic’s Patches 

Vic’s Patches on Keeper Reef or Fish Bowl offers tantalising swim-throughs that see beams of light revealing delicate nudibranches, camouflaged frogfish, giant puffer fish and wide-eyed cave dwellers peeking up through the dark. 

The North Face of Wheeler’s Reef 

An action-packed drift dive for Advanced or training Adventure Divers to cruise at 20 metres past schools of humphead parrotfish and huge Spanish mackerel, while spotting wobbegongs in the sand as the occasional grey reef shark watches on.

SS Yongala 

Consistently voted Australia’s number one wreck dive. Be the first divers to descend on the wreck in the morning and witness giant trevallies, bull rays and Queensland gropers. There are also heaps of batfish, cod, bottle-nosed wedgefish and leopard sharks swimming among the wreck.

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