Ex HMAS Tobruk Dive

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Ex HMAS Tobruk Dive

Adventure and Outdoors Tours
Cruises, Sailing and Water Tours
4 min guests
10 max guests

Highlights

  • Explore the Ex-HMAS Tobruk wreck, offering divers a unique and exhilarating underwater adventure near Hervey Bay.
  • Swim through the colossal 120-metre tank deck, where vibrant marine life greets you at every turn.
  • Experience a personal touch with limited dive groups of 10, ensuring comfort and tailored guidance from expert PADI instructors.
  • Encounter diverse marine species, from colourful reef fish to majestic rays, in a stunning underwater landscape.

The Ex-HMAS Tobruk rests on the seabed in a area just North of Hervey Bay. She came to rest on her starboard side and does not disappoint as Australia latest dive wreck!

The unexpected orientation only makes for a more interesting and unusual dive. The Tobruk is like no other wreck in the world! She offers a unique diving experience with excellent access and awe inspiring scale. Her stern doors are open revealing her colossal main tank deck and providing a full-length 120 metre swim-through experience.

The depth ranges from 12 to 30 metres with ample interesting sections for Open Water and Advanced divers to feel comfortable and challenged.

Colourful reef fish and anemones will greet excited divers as they descend. Octopus, Lion and Puffer fish and sparkling schools of Baitfish may part as you swim through the second-to-none cavernous tank deck.

For those experienced enough to descend to the seafloor, grouper, cod, wobbegong sharks and rays will await your company.

Their dive departs daily aboard our dedicated high-speed dive vessel. For comfort and safety they limit divers to 10 per trip ensuring a personal experience. You will be guided by members of their highly qualified PADI dive.

Itinerary highlights

Ex-HMAS Tobruk artificial reef

HMAS Tobruk (L 50) was a Landing Ship Heavy (LSH) of the Royal Australian Navy. Planning for the ship began in the 1970s to provide the Australian Army with a permanent sealift capability. Her keel was laid down in Newcastle, NSW in 1979, launched in 1980, and commissioned in 1981. She was a multi-purpose heavy lift ship capable of transporting soldiers, heavy vehicles and tanks, and delivering them to shore via landing craft or directly by beaching.

The HMAS Tobruk was decommissioned by the Australian government in July 2015 with the state of Queensland successfully tendering for the vessel in late 2016. The ship was towed from Sydney to the port of Bundaberg in December 2016 for preparations for scuttling in Wide Bay in June 2018.

Tour details

  • Adventure and Outdoors Tours
  • Cruises, Sailing and Water Tours
  • Customised
  • Water – Motorised
  • Basic
  • On demand

Features

Service facilities

  • Carpark
  • Non Smoking
  • Public Toilet
Accessibility

This business does not currently offer accessible facilities.

Operation information

Hervey Bay Dive Centre

The Hervey Bay Dive Centre is Hervey Bay’s premier marine and dive tour operator. The Hervey Bay Dive Centre is a “Best of Queensland” operator, a 5 Star PADI dive centre and TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence recipient.

Owned and operated by a local family with years of experience in the marine industry the centre prides itself on a personal experience, passionate and professional crew and a strong environmental approach.

The dive centre provides guided ex-HMAS Tobruk dives, 5 star PADI diver training, kayak, snorkel and underwater scooter tours and Hervey Bay’s dedicated swim with whales tour during the famous Hervey Bay Whale Watch season.

Tags

  • Experience is charged

Accreditations

  • ATEC Japan Host
  • ECO Certified (Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors

Memberships

  • Visitor Information Centre
  • QLD – Fraser Coast Tourism and Events

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