Sydney the Gateway to Australia

Sydney is the ideal location to start your tour of Australia.  With such icons as the Opera house and the Sydney harbor bridge this is a location which must be on every travelers list.

One of the other icons of Australia is the Great Barrier Reef. Scuba diving the great barrier reef should be on the bucket list of all travelers. If you are planning to travel Australia it is recommended that you first do a diving course in Sydney because everywhere you travel there will be an opportunity to dive and Sydney is the perfect place to do your diving course.

Australia offers some fantastic scuba diving with a broad range of marine life and Sydney as the gateway to Australia offers diving unequalled by any large city. A recent study revealed that Sydney has more marine species than any other harbour in the world. Some 600 marine animals have already been identified and we can be sure that there are more to be found. One of the great attractions of diving around Sydney is its abundant marine life.

Because of the unique nature of Sydney's coast some of the best dive sites can be easily accessed from the shore. Such unique creatures ar the weedy seadragon, giant cuttle fish, Port Jackson Shark and Blue groper can easily be seen from shore diving.

Sydney dive sites Sydney offers a large number of dive sites and Abyss Scuba Diving is centeral to the best of the dive sites.

Abyss Scuba Diving is a family owned and operated 5 star PADI IDC  with a reputation second to none in the Australian dive industry. The winner of the prestigious PADI most outstanding Dive Centre Award for 2007, followed by Most Innovative Dive Centre and the Diver Acquisition Award. Abyss has been the winner of the Dive Log Australian Dive Centre of the Year and Oceanic Dealer of the Year for the last 4 year. You could not deal with a better dive operator. Our business has been built on the quality of our service, the quality of the equipment we sell and the basic principle of keeping divers diving.