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Cairns Diving Tours (Day)
Cairns proximity to the Great Barrier Reef makes its an ideal location to venture out Scuba Diving, Cairns offers a greater number of Scuba Diving Day Trips than any other location in Australia. You can choose to dive the Outer Great Barrier Reef or one of the Island & Sand Cays. With selected tours offering up to 3 dives per day the diversity of diving option will satisfy every diver.
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5 June 2011
Passions of Paradise offers guests an award winning, Adventure Tourism experience on Cairns’ Great Barrier Reef and at Michaelmas Cay National Park. Combining these two elements allows Passions’ guests to explore the open waters of the Great Barrier Reef and swim in the shallow, protected waters surrounding the cay, which are bursting with marine life and some of the largest and most impressive giant clams you will ever see. Passions of Paradise’s 25m sailing catamaran has an air-conditioned interior and exterior sun deck on the bow, complete with trampolines, for relaxing comfort and enjoyment. Locally owned and operated the friendly crew ensures a great day out.
| Adult : $180.00 | Child : $65.00 | Family : $425.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 10.00am
Returns: 5.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Sunlover Cruises provide an amazing diving day tour from Cairns to the Outer Great Barrier Reef, departing daily at 10am. Scuba dive directly from their exclusive Moore Reef pontoon, or tender to a more remote reef location to enjoy swimming with some of the reef’s famous and friendly giant Maori Wrasse residents. Marine turtles are often around the pontoon, creating memorable diving moments and photo opportunities. Like many Cairns dive day tours, certified diving is in addition to the ‘base tour price’: when booking check for the optional extras. One (1) certified dive is $80 or enjoy two (2) for $125, these prices include professional dive instructors and equipment. The Sunlover Cruises diving day tour provides up to 4.5 hours at stunning Moore Reef and includes a delicious buffet lunch and range of pontoon activities.
| Adult : $165.00 | Child : $95.00 | Family : - | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Diving the reef is our passion, but sharing it is our obsession. Tusa Dive has been providing Cairns dive day tours for more than 20 years. They are passionate about diving on the Great Barrier Reef and sharing this magical experience with their guests. Their dive day tour vessel, T6 is the newest in Cairns. It has been built for speed and comfort. At 24m long it is a sleek, spacious catamaran that was custom-designed and launched in 2011, to maximise customer experience on day dive cruising to the Great Barrier Reef. To provide tour flexibility, Tusa Dive offer a range of packages, including one, two or three certified dives with all dive gear included, or just tanks and weights. This is a great day out with up to five hours on the reef at two outer reef sites.
| Adult : $180.00 | Child : $90.00 | Family : $450.00 | Pensioner : $180.00 |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 9.00am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Reef Magic Cruises provides one of the most unique dive day tour operations on the Great Barrier Reef, thanks to its Marine World floating activity platform. It also ‘rewards’ customers who pre-book their certified dive adventure, making this amazing experience even more affordable. If you purchase on the day, then your first certified dive is $60 and a second certified dive is another $30, however, pre-book two certified dives and the second one is free, including a dive guide! Make sure you look for this as a part of the booking process. Enjoy excellent diving including drift, wall and channel dives, swim throughs, caves, ledges and drop offs. Five hours reef time and three separate dive opportunities. Click below for more details.
| Adult : $139.00 | Child : $89.00 | Family : $355.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.10am
Returns: 4.15pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
The Frankland Islands south of Cairns are approximately 10km offshore and surrounded by pristine coral reefs. The Frankland Island group comprises five, uninhabited continental islands that are home to a diverse range of bird and marine life. Frankland Island Cruise and Dive is the only operator providing daily dive tours to the Frankland Islands from Cairns and this special package includes a freshwater river cruise, ocean crossing and time on Normanby Island National Park. Limited to just 100 guests per trip, you can explore this island paradise in relative isolation. This dive day tour has some standard inclusions, such as morning and afternoon tea, tropical buffet lunch (served on the beach!) and a guided snorkelling tour.
| Adult : $195.00 | Child : $94.50 | Family : $487.50 | Pensioner : $195.00 |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.30am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Ocean Spirit Cruises provide daily dive tours from Cairns to the world famous Michaelmas Cay. Operating for over 21 years, Ocean Spirit Cruises are committed to reef protection and interpretation and their qualified marine biologists are on board to share their knowledge on this unique marine environment. Maximising your enjoyment of this Great Barrier Reef dive day tour is a high crew to guest ratio, live on-board musical entertainment, state-of-the-art dive equipment, all meals and four hours at the Cay to dive, snorkel and swim. Lunch is an impressive hot and cold buffet, with delicious fresh seafood, including prawns. If you have had enough time in the water, visit the Cay and enjoy a guided bird tour.
| Adult : $135.00 | Child : $90.00 | Family : $409.00 | Pensioner : $135.00 |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Ocean Free is a unique sailing and diving day tour operator, travelling from Cairns to Green Island daily. Limited numbers of just 35 guests, guarantee a personalised dive day tour experience which can be as active (help hoist the sails) or relaxed (sit back and enjoy the ride) as you like. Mooring at Pinnacle Reef, just 700m offshore from Green Island, you will enjoy four and half hours of swimming, snorkelling and diving. Please note that certified diving is in addition to your ticket price, but well worth the investment and experience. Pinnacle Reef is a fantastic Green Island dive destination, with stunning coral gardens and outcrops, turtles and too many fish to mention. Tenders are also available to the island.
| Adult : $114.00 | Child : $80.00 | Family : $325.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Reef Daytripper limits its daily guest numbers to just 20 people, making this one of the smallest and most intimate scuba diving day tours operating from Cairns. Enjoy morning tea and coffee as you make your way to our private moorings at your Great Barrier Reef destination, Upolu Cay. Although your certified dive is in addition to the standard ticket price, this is not unusual with Cairns dive day tour boats. Introductory and safety briefings are provided on board, before you arrive at nature’s playground on the Great Barrier Reef. You have just under four hours to enjoy and explore the coral gardens of the Cay, so pace yourself to maximise your day.
| Adult : $110.00 | Child : $70.00 | Family : $268.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.30am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Ocean Spirit Cruises is a sail tour operator that provides daily dive tours to two Great Barrier Reef destinations, Oyster and Upolu Reefs, from Cairns. They began operations over 21 years ago and pride themselves on a commitment to environmentally sustainable tourism. Their motto is “Leave only footprints, take only photographs”. As well as providing a unique sail experience, allowing you to enjoy the ambience of the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef without engine noise, Ocean Spirit Cruises also employ qualified marine biologists who will explain the wonders and World Heritage values of this natural paradise during your day tour. State of the art equipment is included, as is a free glass of Australian wine on your homeward journey.
| Adult : $129.00 | Child : $125.00 | Family : - | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.20am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Down Under Dive provide Great Barrier Reef scuba diving tours daily, aboard their fast, modern vessel Osprey 5. As the name suggests, Down Under Dive specialise in dive trips and have 12 exclusive mooring locations at six reef destinations. This means that each and every day, the crew will select the best two destinations to maximise your Great Barrier Reef dive tour adventure. Included in your Down Under Dive reef diving day tour package, is five hours at the reef on two spectacular outer reef dive locations and free guided snorkel tours, so you can make the most of your time on the reef. There is a high crew to guest ratio and live entertainment on board.
| Adult : $165.00 | Child : $85.00 | Family : $450.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 7.30am
Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, included
For a fully inclusive Cairns dive day tour to the Great Barrier Reef, you can not go past Reef Experience. Australian owned and family operated, this is promoted as being the ‘best value guaranteed’. We will leave that to you to decide, but there are a lot of unique inclusions such as: 6 hours on the reef at 2 unique destinations; free certified scuba dive; all equipment and wetsuits; marine biologist reef presentation; coach transfers; all meals including a BBQ breakfast; much, much more. Reef Experience is licensed to visit four reef locations, the friendly, knowledgeable crew will pick the best two on the day to suit the conditions and maximise your experience. Reef sites include Hastings, Norman, Saxon and Breaking Patches.
| Adult : $175.00 | Child : $124.00 | Family : $598.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.30am
Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
The Quicksilver Group have been providing day tours to the Great Barrier Reef, off Cairns and Port Douglas, for 30 years. A few years ago they launched the Silver Series, which is tailored to provide small groups of adventure travellers with diving and snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef in comfort and style. Silverswift is the Cairns-based vessel that provides amazing, daily dive trips to the Great Barrier Reef. Enjoy five hours on the reef at three different reef locations. There are a range of packages available, including one, two or three certified dives with all dive gear included or just tanks and weights. A great day of diving that can be tailored to suit your needs and preferences.
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Deep Sea Divers Den has been operating in Cairns for over 30 years and is one of the largest Cairns diving companies in operation. Offering Great Barrier Reef diving day trips aboard its sleek and modern Reef Quest vessel, certified divers choosing to travel with Deep Sea Divers Den will enjoy three dives at two different locations on the Outer Barrier Reef. Licensed to visit 17 different reef locations, the crew will choose the best sites on the day to maximise your diving enjoyment, comfort and visibility. All of the dive locations have excellent coral, colourful fish, including a giant 1.5 Maori Wrasse named Wally at Norman Reef, making for an unforgettable day of diving.
| Adult : $160.00 | Child : - | Family : - | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Check-in: 7.00am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes – extra cost
Cairns Dive Centre offers diving day tours to the Great Barrier Reef aboard their comfortable, 17.5m catamaran, M.V. Reef-Kist. Licensed to carry 75 passengers, Cairns Dive Centre limits their daily number of guests to just 50 people (after some guests have disembarked to their liveaboard vessel), ensuring you can maximise your dive day tour at the Outer Great Barrier Reef. Enjoy two different dive sites during the day and up to five hours on the reef. Cairns Dive Centre is licensed to visit seven different reefs, including Milln, Moore, Briggs, Thetford, Sudbury, Channel or Elford. They will choose the best reefs on the day to maximise your diving experience. Your day includes dedicated, professional crew, marine snorkel briefings, two dive sites, tropical lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
| Adult : $179.00 | Child : $100.00 | Family : $506.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Ocean Freedom specialise in providing first time and certified divers with an amazing experience and maximum time at the reef, on their Cairns dive day tour. The five star luxury cruiser makes good travel time, giving you six hours on the reef to explore two amazing dive destinations. This is more time than any other Cairns dive day tour operator can provide. The crew specialise in assisting first time divers and generally provide one instructor for every two divers, making you feel comfortable and at ease on your Great Barrier Reef diving experience. Lunch is a tropical feast, including fresh prawns, smoked salmon, cold meats and salads. The boat is comfortable, spacious and luxurious making for a great dive day tour.
| Adult : $139.00 | Child : $89.00 | Family : $409.00 | Pensioner : - |
Tour: Full day | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.00am
Returns: 5.00pm | Transfers available: Yes, extra
Passions of Paradise is a locally owned and operated Cairns company, committed to providing you with the very best Great Barrier Reef day dive tour available. The friendly crew are knowledgeable about the reef environment and Passions of Paradise has Advanced Ecotourism accreditation, in recognition of their commitment to operate sustainably while providing guests with information and interpretation on the amazing reef environment. Certified divers can choose from a range of experiences on this amazing Cairns dive day tour, including drift dives, wall dives and swim throughs. There is a specially designed glass bottom dive tender, which will take you to the very best locations available on the day. Don’t miss any of the unique features of this dynamic marine environment on a guided dive tour.