Day dive boats are an exciting day best suited to people who are confident in the water. This is an active day, ideal for certified scuba divers and introductory divers, visiting an array of amazing Great Barrier Reef sites over 5 hours. Choose from the Silver Series’ ultra-modern sister ships, Silverswift and Silversonic, and Poseidon for the thrill of diving and adventure snorkelling.
Quicksilver and Great Adventures both operate day trips to pontoons. These pontoons are multi-level reef activity platforms moored permanently at the Outer Great Barrier Reef in exclusive, pristine locations. They provide a spacious, stable base to enjoy a wide range of reef activities in all weather conditions. Guests get to enjoy the facilities of the (air-conditioned) vessel and platform which includes undercover seating, change rooms and freshwater showers, underwater observatory, semi-submersible, snorkelling platforms, specially designed introductory dive areas and sundecks.
The islands of the Great Barrier Reef, with their pristine coral gardens, offer a vibrant variety of marine life for the scuba diver to discover. Michaelmas Cay provides an ideal locations for introductory divers with Ocean Spirit conducting diving from the cay’s shallow waters . Both certified and introductory divers are catered for at Green Island with a range of offshore dive sites reached by dive tender.