Diving The Dredge in Spring

Let’s start Spring with a dive on The Dredge!

Two kilometres off Glenelg pier, the silhouette of an old steel dredge sits upright on a sand-and-shell bottom in 22 metres of clear Gulf St Vincent water. It was sunk as an artificial reef in the 1980s so the encrusting growth is mature and the resident fish population has settled in. For Adelaide divers, the Glenelg Dredge is one of the few accessible wreck dives within twenty minutes of the city, and the shortest boat run to a depth-rated dive on the South Australian metropolitan coast.

The wreck sits on the broad sand-and-shell shelf that defines the seabed across most of Gulf St Vincent. The dredge was deployed as part of the SA government’s artificial reef program of the period — primarily as a fishing structure, though divers have used it as a working wreck dive ever since. The hull is intact, the deck recognisable, and the silt accumulation manageable for a wreck of its age.
Source: Glenelg Dredge Wreck Dive Site Guide — Adelaide, SA | ScubaDownUnder

Please contact Tim if you want to join us in this boat dive. Time to meet will be advised closer to the date.