SS YONGALA Marine life by Yongala Dive
Yongala Dive show you the incredible array of marine life inhabiting the SS YONGALA Shipwreck today. Yongala Express will transport you to the dive of your dreams in 30 minutes from Alva Beach in Ayr. This dive site is voted as one of the top ten scuba dives in the world. It is the number one dive in the Great Barrier Reef marine park. www.scubadive.co.uk rate this as the number one best dive in the world. More information found at www.yongaladive.com.au
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This seems like fun. How would I get into diving?
I really liked your Video! Great Job! I select for underwater article about the Yongala Wreck and Scuba Diving in Townsville divezone.net/townsville.htm I hope you will like it!
as soon as im in my last year of school im going traveling and im definitely going to dive there
Wow this video was so beautiful ty for posting. I really want to go see the best dive site in the world and get into scuba diving. When I get enough money I’ll bring my parents and sister to dive Yongala because it looks so pretty and has loads of marine life. Thanks again
0100101lol- As an Open Water Diver you are able to dive the S.S Yongala if you have more then 6 dives under your belt, at least one dive to the 18m mark and confidence in your diving abilities. As the wreck sits in 19-28m of water you will need to complete a Deep Adventure Dive with us on your first dive or deep dive training elsewhere prior to diving with us. You will see the wreck in both dives, and as to it being ‘worth it’, it definately is.
Vodskibandit- No ‘VW’ is not aggressive towards humans, he does his thing and we do ours. As we have a ‘no touch’ policy we give him no reason to think that we would harm him. As to the Bull Sharks, the ocean is thier home so obviously they are out there but once again they tend to stay out of our way as we stay out of thiers! It is unbelievable diving so now you know VW and bull sharks aren’t an issue you can come out diving with us!
Absolutely unreal amount of marine life – all of a pretty big nature! I can’t get over the size of that ‘VW’ grouper against the hawksbil, it must be ancient, like some kind of prehistoric monster – is it aggressive toward humans being that massive? And is it safe with those bullsharks around? Those would be my two concerns.. otherwise it looks almost unbelievable diving
is it worth going with open water dive qualifications (18 metres) or should i come back when i have an advanced open water dive certificate????
This video brings back fond memories … Their is so much to see that I am going to go back for a second helping!!
This video is beautiful – Thank you
doing it in april if the sight is good enough! soooo stoked after watching this!!!
Hi-
I am doing the Yongala in a few days… What camera did you use to film? Did you use an underwater light?
cheers
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Hi there, could you email me the video of this beautiful work?
love this vid,thnx a bunch 4 uploading this
Thanks for all the great comments guys. I myself have done thousands of dives and never seen fish life like this anywhere !!! The wreck itself is in about 29metres of water at the bottom and 15m at the top and amazingly the coral is still very colourful.
@kmpa13
deep 60 feet to the starboard side 90 feet to the bottom.
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The top of the wreck is 60 feet from the surface and 90 to the bottom. Piece of cake dive and I did my first dive at night when we hooked up and broke the 2 inch hauser line off the mike ball super sport. I was all over it in 5 foot seas at night with my camera and got a huge pic of a mottled ray. They had the Jesus line with a strobe out for the newbies.
@crc1126
I did it in 1987 took some huge pics with my nikonos 4a with a 15mm lens. Best dive of my life bar none. I have some pics of a sleeping nurse shark under the hull plus 3 huge mottled rays at night one of which is on my face book page. joe hughes.
I did this dive way back in 1988. Saw almost everything in video except mantas and whale shark (seasonal). Did see lionfish, banded sea snakes,etc…..
2 people don’t like fish
Good video, I keep worrying what will happen to it if things like what happend in
the gulf of mexico keep popping up.
The ocean is really the final frontier on the earth, so much still unknown, keep up the good work.
I’m trying to get my girlfriend to go diving, but she’s really afraid of sea life.. I’ve done it twice and it’s simply an amazing experience…Look forward to doing it again,,,
@kmpa13 If i remember correctly its can be upto 40m at the sea bed so you need to be comfortable in the mid 20s to really enjoy it. I think it can have strong currents as my second dive was basically a drift dive. But you won’t manage to notice anything else but the eco system as its the most condensed and compact, yet beautifully calm dives you will ever have. I came off 6 months marine conservation in the Seychelles when I did 2 dives on the wreck and its by far the most amazing dive ever.
amazing. how deep is it? i’d love to dive there
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