This dive site is a large, deep offshore reef renowned for its extensive rock formations and dramatic ledges dropping to over 30 meters. It boasts prolific fish life, colourful sponge gardens, and is a classic Sydney boat dive. The sheer scale of the reef provides plenty of area for exploration over multiple dives. It's the second favourite dive site for Sydney Dive Charters!
Our regular dive site (at approximately a 24m depth) features huge boulders that divers can swim underneath. There are also many swim throughs to explore with abundant marine life such as the elusive and colourful eastern blue devil fish. These stunning and very shy fish live in caves and along ledges.
During our Dee Why Wide dive, we’ll also encounter giant cuttlefish – very friendly sea animals – especially during mating season where they will commonly grab hold of divers’ hands should they be interacted with them.
Giant cuttlefish only live for about 18 months, so they clearly make the most of their short lifespan. Before dying, they’ll lay hundreds of white eggs, which you’ll find clinging to anything located where there is good water movement, such as old rope for anchors, tulip soft corals, shipwrecks, etc.
Dying for the giant cuttlefish takes several weeks. They’ll begin to lose their bright colours until they turn white and start moving very slowly. During our dive at Dee Why Wide, we may encounter this white cuttlefish in caves. There we’ll also find thousands of their brethren’s white backbones (or we’ll find their buoyancy aids floating on the surface where birds will take ownership of the carcasses.)
