Passions of Paradise

Experience the adventure of snorkelling, diving and sailing on the Great Barrier Reef with Passions of Paradise. The 25 metre high-performance catamaran sails daily from Cairns to two unique locations, world-famous Michaelmas Cay and exclusive Paradise Reef, where you can dive and snorkel with turtles, colourful fish and see an amazing variety of corals.

Enjoy a personalised day on the Great Barrier Reef with a friendly crew dedicated to making your trip memorable and a local operator whose environmental credentials and attention to detail have earned many awards including the Australian Tourism Award for Adventure.

Michaelmas Cay

Michaelmas Cay National Park is a world-famous bird sanctuary with a beautiful sandy beach, providing a rare opportunity to snorkel and dive straight off the beach in protected, calm waters. Sea turtles are common and you are also likely to see giant trevally, small black tip reef sharks, bat fish and hundreds of species of colourful reef fish.

Paradise Reef

Paradise Reef is an exclusive mooring just for Passions so there are no crowds as you snorkel or dive on the outer Great Barrier Reef. It is a hard coral reef featuring a ribbon of small reefs. With depths of up to 25 metres along the edge, water clarity is good and the area is host to many exciting fish species including Wally, our resident Maori wrasse.

Pro Dive Cairns

One of the “must do” things in Queensland is to dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Pro Dive is Cairns premier dive school and outer reef live aboard dive trip operator. Since 1983 they have developed an international reputation for quality, professionalism, safety and value. They specialize in all levels of dive education.

Their dive courses and trips include many exclusive features that you won’t find elsewhere. These include an all inclusive price, the best boats, a more personalized experience and a greater variety of dive sites visited. To really appreciate the true wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, Prodive Cairns also includes a 2.5 hour fun and informative marine biology presentation “Reef Teach” in all their dive courses and trips.

If your thinking about taking the plunge their modern diver training centre combined with 3 modern purpose built live aboard dive boats provide the best facilities available. All vessels are fully air conditioned, offering comfortable and spacious living conditions with double or twin share accommodation.

This learn to dive package has it all…5 Day PADI “Open Water” dive course. The adventure of staying out on the reef for 3 days and 2 nights and the 5 extra recreational dives makes this course unmatched for experience and value.

Tusa Dive

Cairns based, TUSA Dive are the day tour scuba diving and snorkelling specialists to the Great Barrier Reef. With more than 25 years experience in taking visitors to the reef, TUSA Dive strive to make your Cairns reef tour as memorable, educational and exciting, as it is possible to be.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 km (1,600 mi) along the coast of Queensland, in Australia’s Coral Sea. Labeled as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, and a World Heritage listed region, visitors come from the all over the planet to visit this incredible icon… Our Great Barrier Reef.

Experienced scuba divers and snorkellers alike can travel to the Cairns outer reefs in ultimate comfort on board the super-slick reef craft, the T6. Launched in August 2011, T6 is custom designed for Great Barrier Reef cruising, cairns diving and snorkelling, and each day visits two unique reef locations from Tusa’s choice of 16 spectacular dive and snorkel sites.

Spirit of Freedom

Dive Australia’s Coral Sea, Cod Hole & Ribbon Reefs with SPIRIT OF FREEDOM live-aboard dive expeditions.

The Spirit of Freedom offers the best in liveaboard dive cruising to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and remote Coral Sea reefs. Scuba Dive Tours of 3, 4 and 7 day duration depart our of Cairns to iconic dive sites such as the Cod Hole, Ribbon Reefs and North Horn, Osprey Reef. Shark dives, Potato Cod feeding, sheer walls laced with massive soft corals, manta-rays, minke whales, and abundant healthy tropical reefs, rich with marine biodiversity are just some of the high-lights you’ll experience with Spirit of Freedom diving tours.

Stretching more than 2300 km along the coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef is a complex ecosystem of around 2900 individual reefs. In the remote northern sector 10 string shaped coral reefs, collectively called ‘The Ribbon Reefs’, provide some of the most stunning tropical reef scuba diving in the world. Lying within the protected green zones of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, sites such as Steve’s Bommie offer rich marine biodiversity, and endless macro photography opportunities.

Hundreds of kilometers beyond the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s Coral Sea harbours the undersea remnants of ancient volcanoes. Here, the diver is presented with sheer walls laced with massive soft corals and gorgonian fans, that plummet 1000 metres to the ocean floor. These isolated reefs, including Osprey and Bougainville Reefs are home territory for huge schools of pelagic fish, manta rays and sharks, and are renown for their crystal clear.

Diving the remote regions of the Ribbon Reefs and Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea, requires you to join a live-aboard scuba diving tour.