Scuba Diving in Seawolves Cove, Marion Bay,
South Australia Australia
Maximum depth:
39.3ft/12m
Visibility:
Up to 50ft/15m
Seawolves Cove is a rocky spot for scuba diving, located in Marion Bay, Yorke Peninsula. Minimum winter temperatures average around 4°C/39.2°F and the maximum can reach 40°C/104°F during summer.
Due to the colder southern ocean waters, a wetsuit is often required for skin-diving or scuba diving activities or for any prolonged periods in the water even in the warmer summer months. Air refills for scuba tanks are available at various locations throughout Yorke Peninsula. However, there is only a diving school which is based in Adelaide, organizing scuba diving in Seawolves Cove, accessible by boat from Marion Bay.
The spot is recommended only for advanced practitioners since it is a shallow dive. The max depth of the dive spot is at 12 m/39 ft while the average visibility is at 15 m/49 ft long. Usually there are no underground currents so let yourself get seduced by the beauty and the variety of the marine life of the spot: sweeps, bulls-eyes fishes , Blue Devils fishes, boar-fishes, blue groupers and crayfishes.
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