4 Days 3 Nights Ribbon Reef Expeditions

Dive into the Iconic Ribbon Reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Australia

DEPARTURE INFORMATION

Boarding is from Marlin Marina, E finger, Cairns at 5:00 pm, return time 8.00 am

THE DIVING

Diving in this section of the GBR is a great experience for both new and experienced adventurous divers. This trip visits Ribbon Reefs, reef systems lying some 90 miles North from Cairns. Due to its isolation the reef has incredible visibility abundant sharks and large pelagic fish life. Divers have observed the reef sharks here years, and it is still a spectacular sight.

We can’t think of any Ribbon Reef trips where you can get up to 8 more amazing and adventurous dives for this price. We emphasize the term ‘adventurous’ as any open ocean trip can get bumpy, and once outside the Great Barrier Reef there is no protection from Pacific Ocean swells on the trip out. (or back, but it’s always better, we highly suggest seasickness medications).

While the diving is always amazing all year, the most certainty of a comfortable trip would be between October and April, the less windy months even though that’s cyclone season.
The diving on this trip is suitable for beginner OW divers with our crew, to the experienced diver wanting to do their own diving schedule.

OVERVIEW

With this trip you get the amazing visibility that the Ribbon Reefs are famous for, with visibility reaching 30 meters plus and is rarely less than 20 meters.

On this trip you can make up to 8 Reef dives including 1 night dive.
You also get to dive with large pelagic, (yes sharks are seen on nearly every dive here!), as well as huge gorgonian fans, resilient hard and soft corals and several species of tropical fish endemic only to this area, making the Ribbon Reefs a truly unique dive location.

Being such large reefs, sand cays and large sheltered areas have formed over the centuries, with good anchorages and dive sites manageable for novice divers. The beauty of these Coral Sea Reefs is their diversity in dive sites and marine life, offering extremely good dive conditions and excellent visibility, leaving room for us to explore new realms of diving and keeping it adventurous, yet safe.

The open ocean isolation also draws in large pelagic fish such as dogtooth tuna, mackerel and barracuda. These reefs are great places to spot sharks of all kinds, especially white tipped and grey reef sharks.

Scuba diving the Ribbon reefs can be a pretty expensive proposition, with trips being focused on 5-star comfort, service and priced out of the range of many novice and beginner diver budgets.