Dive Sites

Diving Ardrossan Barge, Yorke Peninsula – South Australia’s Accessible Wreck Reef

Ardrossan Barge is a scuttled hopper barge resting upright in twenty metres of Gulf St Vincent water, one nautical mile south of the protected Zanoni wreck and seventeen kilometres off Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula. Purpose sunk in April 1984, the steel hull and its cargo of steel pipes have blossomed into a compact reef that rewards visiting divers with good visibility, prolific schooling fish and vivid soft-coral gardens. Access is by boat only and the site is best tackled by competent open-water divers comfortable with blue-water descents and occasional surge.

By ScubaDownUnder Team