Guided shore dives
One dive off the Shoalwater beaches with a guide who knows where the sea lions rest and the seagrass runs. Ten metres, an hour under.
from $95 pp · single dive
Learn to dive, shore dives and boat days out of Rockingham — under by nine.
Try-dives, Open Water and Advanced courses, guided shore dives on the Shoalwater reefs and boat double-dives on the wrecks. Tanks, weights and your guide are in every price. Plan the day on the slate, then book it.
Since 2008AMSA-surveyed 8-diver boatGear serviced every 100 dives
Four divers, two tanks, under by nine
Boat double-dive on the Rockingham wrecks and reef — swap the trip below and the water column redraws.
Boat double-dive · 4 divers
$980
The slate in plain text
Dive Planner
Pick the trip, count the divers, add what you need
The slate on the water column prices as you go. Every course and trip includes tanks, weights and your guide or instructor. Boat days re-rate for the whole group at four divers.
Your day, itemised
Prices are per person and GST-inclusive; tanks, weights and the guide or instructor are always included. Rescue and pro courses, private charters, servicing and sales are quoted.
Book this dayEstimate only — the booking form carries this plan across; we'd confirm the price when we call.
Courses & trips
Seven ways to get wet with us
Every course and trip includes tanks, weights and your guide or instructor. Prices are per person and GST-inclusive; where a job needs a conversation first, it says so.
Boat double-dives
Two tanks on the Rockingham wrecks and reef from our surveyed eight-diver boat. Under by nine, back for lunch. Four or more and the rate drops for everyone.
from $170 pp in groups of four · $190 pp otherwise
Try-dive · Discover Scuba
A half day: the pool first, then a shallow shore dive to twelve metres with an instructor holding your hand — literally, if you like. From age ten.
$199 pp · half day
Open Water course
Four days: theory, pool skills, then four ocean dives on the Shoalwater reefs to eighteen metres. Your card at the end, and a first fun dive on us.
$650 pp · four days
Advanced course
Two days, five dives: deep to thirty metres, navigation, and three you choose — wreck, night, nitrox or photo. Boat dives on the wrecks included.
$550 pp · two days
Full gear hire & fills
BCD, regs, wetsuit, mask, fins and a computer, serviced in-house every hundred dives. Air fills while you wait, EANx32 nitrox for boat days.
$75 pp a day · nitrox +$20 pp
Servicing, sales & charters
Reg and BCD servicing, cylinder testing, new gear fitted properly, private boat charters and Rescue or professional courses.
quoted — ring us or ask at the counter
- Since 2008Rockingham beachfront, ten minutes from the ramp
- 8-diver boatAMSA-surveyed · skipper and guide on every trip
- Every 100 divesgear serviced in-house · cylinders in test
- $20Mpublic liability · instructors certified with an international agency · ABN 00 000 000 354
Reviews
Three log-book pages
We booked Open Water six weeks before Ningaloo and were terrified. Four days later we'd done four ocean dives, one of them with a sea lion, and got the cards in time. Ningaloo was the trip of our lives because we weren't learning on it.
Card from a Bali holiday, no gear, no idea. Hired the full kit, shore dive off Shoalwater, and a sea lion sat on the seagrass looking at me for a full minute. Ten metres, an hour, home by lunch.
Five of us for a mate's fortieth. The group rate meant everyone paid the same, nitrox for the wreck, and the guide's photos landed that night. Under by nine, as promised — the wreck at eight-thirty, actually.
Demo copy — the real dive shop would show its Google reviews feed here, updated as they arrive.
Where we dive
Rockingham, the Shoalwater islands and the wrecks
The shop is on the Rockingham beachfront and the boat leaves from the ramp ten minutes away. Shore dives run off the Shoalwater beaches; boat days go to the wrecks and reef between Garden Island and the sound. Divers come from the whole southern corridor and from Perth for the boat days.
- Rockingham
- Shoalwater
- Safety Bay
- Warnbro
- Port Kennedy
- Secret Harbour
- Baldivis
- Cooloongup
- Waikiki
- Kwinana
- Mandurah
- Fremantle & Perth
The go/no-go call. We read the swell and wind the night before and text every booking by 7pm — if it's blowing, we move you or refund you. No one pays to be seasick.
Before you book
Questions we're asked at the counter
Do I need to be able to swim?
Yes. For the Open Water course the agency standard is a 200 metre swim (any stroke, no time limit) and ten minutes treading water, and we do it in the pool on day one. For a try-dive you need to be comfortable in water over your head — we hold onto you the whole time.
How deep will we go?
Try-dives to 12 metres, the Open Water course qualifies you to 18 metres, Advanced to 30 metres. Guided shore dives sit around ten metres; boat double-dives run 18 to 30 metres on the wrecks and reef, so they need an Advanced card or a deep dive with us first.
What will we see?
Honestly: sea lions most weeks off Shoalwater, seagrass meadows, the wrecks with their resident schools, cuttlefish, and in season a lot of fish. No promises on any single day — it's the ocean, and that's the point.
Is it cold?
Winter water is around 17°C and we dive it in 7 mm suits with hoods; summer is 21–23°C in 5 mm. Both are in the gear hire, and the boat has hot showers and a kettle.
Can my kid do it?
Try-dives from age ten, courses from twelve, both with a parent's sign-off. Under-fifteens are certified as junior divers with depth limits and dive with a parent or a pro. A diver medical statement is required for every course; if you tick a box, a doctor signs before you get wet.
What if it's blowing?
We make the swell call the night before, by 7pm, and text everyone. If we cancel, you choose: move to the next good day or a full refund. Shore dives can usually move to the sheltered side of the point.
What happens in an emergency?
Every dive has a guide or instructor in the water, oxygen and a first-aid kit on the boat or the beach, and a plan for the nearest chamber. DAN's diver emergency line, 1800 088 200, is printed on every dive slate. Rescue and pro courses are quoted — ask us.
Book a dive
Tell us the day and who's coming. We'll ring or text you a spot.
- Boat days go Saturday and Sunday mornings, plus Wednesdays in summer — a fortnight ahead is safest.
- Courses start most weekends; try-dives and shore dives most days the swell allows.
- Bring your card if you have one, and a diver medical statement for any course.
We'd call or text you back the same day from a Rockingham number with the spot and the guide's name. Prefer text? Say so and we'll never ring.
Open Wed–Fri 8–5 · Sat–Sun 6:30–4 · closed Mon–Tue · fills till 4:30