Adrenalin Snorkeland Dive

The only snorkel and dive operator running directly from Townsville and Magnetic Island out to the Great Barrier Reef, working the central section of the reef since 1987 — the stretch well south of the Cairns crowds, and some of the best of it. Two sites set them apart: the S.S. Yongala, a passenger steamer that went down with all aboard in a 1911 cyclone and is now considered one of the finest wreck dives in the world, ninety kilometres offshore; and the Museum of Underwater Art at John Brewer Reef, Jason deCaires Taylor's submerged sculpture installation, dived and snorkelled on dedicated trips. Beyond those, a run of central-reef sites — Lodestone, Keeper, Wheeler, Davies — for coral gardens, drift dives and swim-throughs. PADI courses from first dive to divemaster, and an Ecotourism Australia certification held continuously since 2005. On Wulgurukaba and Bindal sea Country.