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Diving Cairns
Excellent Place for scuba diving courses and to get your Padi Open Water. Main gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and Liveaboard starting point.
Julien, Diving Advisor
© 2026 - I have been really lucky to dive all over the globe over the past few years. I hope all of the info you find on this website will help you plan your next dive trip!
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I haven’t so far but this is definitely in my “To Do” list. Recently one of my colleague along with her BF has been there and she loved it. And the way she explained her trip to the Great Barrier Reef, I guess it’s worth seeing & experiencing.
Many things to do but my site is not letting me to do it in the near future. BUT I WILL FOR SURE
We did a liveaboard (3 days, 2 nights) with Cairns Dive Center (CDC). I do NOT recommend them! Both of their boats, the daytrip boat Sunkist, and the liveaboard boat Kangaroo Explorer, are falling apart.
The air conditioning broke both nights (and it gets really hot in the cabins without it), there is rust everywhere, and cracks/damage all over the boat.
We went to only 3 dive sites on a 10-dive trip. That’s less than 25% of the dive sites they claimed we might visit. We never made it to Milln Reef, even though CDC has dive sites there that we could have visited. Conditions were fine for moving the boat – I blame the stinginess of the owners and laziness as the reasons why we did not get to see more reef locations.
To sum up: the owners do not care about the quality of your experience with CDC – they are out to make a buck. No money is being spent on keeping the boat in good shape; it never returns to harbor, and it is falling apart. The diving was mediocre at best.
HI
I will be at CAIRNS 2 days or perhaps 3 , 22th from 23th of Novermber.
My level is 2 PADI.
What do you propose for diving ? and prices ?
Regards
Anne
Hi Julien,
Great info! I just wanted to know do you also arrange diving in Cairns? or can you suggest a good but economical diving instructor there? me and my husband are there in the second week of Feb 2016.
Thanks in advance!
Smita
Hello,
It our first time trying our hands on scuba diving…
Need to get info on lessons, we got 5 days at Cairns from 24th to 29th May 2016
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