Join VARS for $50
Become a member of the Victorian Artificial Reef Society
and help us to get, prepare, sink and dive the ex HMAS Canberra.
VARS Membership Form
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Volunteer Today
VARS needs your help! Whatever your skills or interests,
there are plenty of ways you can help us. Just fill out the Volunteer Application
and we will get you started immediately!
VARS Volunteer Application
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Shore Dives
Bass Strait is a 200 kilometres (124 miles) "funnel" for the great Southern Ocean as it surges through between Victoria and Tasmania to join the Pacific Ocean to the east. Along the Victorian coastline of Bass Strait, scuba divers can choose from more than 100 shore dives, giving and outstanding variety of experiences:
- capes and headlands
- major bays
- dozens of offshore reefs (limestone, sandstone and basalt)
- a great variety of temperate marine life (including abalone and crays)
- easily accessible jetties and piers
- shipwrecks and hulks
- sea caves, blowholes, some tricky drifts
- many safe night dives and introductory day sites for newly qualified divers to enjoy developing their dive skills
There is much to learn and enjoy as you shore dive Victoria's coastline.
