For those who want to experience the best liveaboard diving holidays that the Great Barrier Reef has to offer, there is no substitute for a diving tour of Australia's Coral Sea regions of the Ribbon Reefs, Osprey Reef and Bougainville. Experienced scuba divers must accept nothing less.
Running along the northern edge of the Barrier Reef in north Queensland and holding such famous dives as the Cod Hole and Steve's Bommie, the Ribbon Reefs consist of long, thin reefs ranging in depth from 5-20 metres and usually no wider than 450 metres. Characteristically covered in colourful coral, the Ribbon Reefs teem with marine critters, large and small. The further north one travels in Queensland the better visibility one encounters, due to changes in the land and decreasing agricultural run off. This means the Ribbon Reefs often enjoy excellent visibility. [More details on these dive sites: Ribbon Reefs].
The Australian North Coral Sea contains an isolated reef system located off the coast of Cairns to the very far north. Osprey Reef and its lesser known neighbours to the south, Holmes Reef and Bougainville, represent world class diving and the best liveaboard tours that the Great Barrier Reef region has to offer. The distance at once spells one thing: an abundance of unspoilt marine life. As a remote oceanic reef, not part of the continent of Australasia, there are deep water upwellings here, meaning plenty of nutrients that support an abundance of life. Visibility here ranges from the impressive to the incredible.
Home to large schools of pelagic fish, bigeye trevally, bronze whaler sharks and barracuda, the Coral Sea also features plenty of moray eels, exotic cuttlefish and sea hares. Gorgonian fans, sea whips and beautiful, bright yellow soft corals flourish in the crystal clear waters and on the mountain pinnacles and sheer walls that disappear in the depths far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea. [More details on these dive sites: Osprey Reef - Holmes Reef - Bougainville].
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