Wall to wall sharks at Fish Rock

Located off Australia's east coast is a small rocky outcrop called Fish Rock. Nigel Marsh knows it well, but for 20 years it was a source of frustration for him. Then things changed... more...

S is for south Australia

Shipwrecks, sinkholes, seals, sharks, sea dragons and "sneaky sex" - superb! Marie Davis goes on tour in South Australia more...

Join the jetty set

It's the longest wooden pier in the southern hemisphere and marine life adores it. Jane Wilkinson explores the enchanted underwater world of Australia's Busselton Jetty more...

Rare glimpse of a vanishing world

PAUL WALDEN joins JUSTIN GILLIGAN and a man with an enormous film camera to document one of the last remaining bastions of true wilderness - Raine Island and the Great Detached Reefs of Northern Australia more...

The great white debait

OK, we've watched Celebrity Shark Bait on TV and, gasps of amazement, the celebs didn't get eaten and want to do it again! But is cage-diving responsible for an increase in deaths among other water-users, as some allege, or is that metal box the best friend a great white shark could have? Monty Halls has his own views. Photos by Jeff Rotman more...

Beyond Skull Cave

There are two types of divers in Tasmania - smart ones, and those who don't use a drysuit. Our down-under correspondent Marie Davies fell into the latter category on a recent first visit but that wouldn't stop her exploring one of the world's last accessible underwater wildernesses more...

Science Can Be Fun

Jurgen Freund and his wife Stella travelled down under to search for dwarf minke whales on the Great Barrier Reef aboard the scientific liveaboard Undersea Explorer. Then they went looking for sharks and nautiluses on the same vessel - and had such a good time, they decided to stay in Oz for good! more...

Dragon Quest

She knew nothing about seadragons, whether leafy or weedy, but Patricia Danna was easily persuaded to go in search of elusive egg-bearing males in Australia, with photographer Fred Bavendam more...