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Mornington Pier
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
EntryBoat
Max depth9 m
LevelEstimated: Beginner-friendly
Water bodyBass Strait
Water temp13–19°C
Estimated from climate dataDec–Apr
About this site
Mornington Pier is a dive site near Mornington, Victoria, Australia, in the Bass Strait. It is reached from a boat with a maximum depth of about 9 m. Commonly reported marine life includes seahorses, nudibranchs, octopus, stingrays, cuttlefish. Typical surface water temperature ranges from about 13 to 19 °C over the year.
Conditions by month
BestGoodMixedOctoberGood
Generally good diving.
Marine life
Recorded nearby
- Southern Bluefin TunaThunnus maccoyii
Eastern Shovelnose StingareeTrygonoptera imitata- Flat-bottomed StarAsterias amurensis
Globe FishDiodon nicthemerus
Sparsely-spotted StingareeUrolophus paucimaculatus- Big-belly SeahorseHippocampus abdominalis
Coral NudibranchPhyllodesmium serratum
Southern Blue-ringed OctopusHapalochlaena maculosa
Nearby sites
- 1Frankton Pier10 km
- 2HMS J516 km
- 3South Channel Fort23 km
- 4Mordialloc Pier23 km
- 5Elsa's Reef 224 km
- 6Ricketts Point25 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: OpenDiveMap (ODbL) · Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org