Silverswift - Great Barrier Reef

SILVERSWIFT VISIT 3 OUTER REEF SITES EASY ACCESS INTO THE WATER LIFEVESTS PROVIDED REEF LOCATIONS VISITED BEAUTIFUL LIONFISH CLOWNFISH SMORGASBORD LUNCH

SILVERSWIFT:

We're ready to whisk you away for a day of adventure, Silverswift is a luxury 29m catamaran designed with everything you need to experience an underwater world of colourful marine life in safety and comfort taking a maximum of 80 passengers. 

Visit 3 sites at the Outer Barrier Reef and spend a leisurely 5 hours at play!

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT?

• Only trip departing Cairns that visits 3 Outer Reef sites in one day.
• 5 hours on the reef
• Certified and Intro Divers can enjoy up to 3 dives
• Snorkel tour with Reef Guide

INCLUSIONS:

• Morning tea with focacias and muffins
• Afternoon tea with fruit platter, cheese and biscuits and baked items
• Hot and Cold tropical lunch with Sushi and vegetarian option
• All quality snorkelling equipment
• Qualified snorkelling safety officers on hand
• All scuba dive equipment
• FREE snorkel tour with a Reef Guide
• Prescription masks

ITINERARY:
8.15am: Passengers board Silverswift. Tea, coffee and biscuits served until departure
8.30am: Depart Marlin Wharf for the trip to the Outer Barrier Reef. On the way, detailed certified and introductory dive briefings are given.
9:50am: Arrive at the first site. Divers gear up, while snorkellers listen to a site briefing by the snorkelling advisor. Get ready to view the beauty of this natural wonder!
11.15am: Silverswift departs for second reef location. Option for introductory divers and certified divers to do their second dive. Snorkellers are once again briefed as to the best areas to snorkel.
12:30pm: After the water activities, enjoy a tropical hot and cold lunch served in the air conditioned cabin. The lunch includes fresh prawns, pasta, meats, salads and fruit. There are bar facilities available where you can purchase drinks.
1:40pm: Silverswift departs for third reef location. Snorkellers are once again briefed as to the best areas to snorkel. Option for introductory divers and certified divers to do their third dive.
2.15pm: Afternoon tea is served
2.45pm: All passengers to board vessel for count
3:00pm: Silverswift commences return to Cairns
4:30pm: Silverswift arrives at Cairns

DEPARTURE:
Departs Cairns at 8:30am, and returns at 4:30pm. Check in at the Reef Fleet Terminal from 7:45am.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Hat
• Sunscreen
• Camera
• Swimming costume
• Shirt for sun protection,
• Beach Towel
• Cash/Credit Card for drinks at bar

Children are welcome to travel on this trip however it is recommended that children be confident in the water.  The minimum age for introductory divers is 12 yrs. 

If you are worried about sea sickness this vessel has a state of the art stabilising system creating the smoothest ride to the outer Barrier Reef.  

DIVE SITES:   

We've chosen some of the best known dive sites off Cairns such as Flynn, Milln and Thetford reefs for their abundance of marine life.  We also occasionally visit Pellowe Reef.  These sites offer excellent wall dives, swim-throughs, and overhangs.  Expect to see an abundance of marine life combined with plenty of hard corals such as staghorn, table, plate and boulder coral heads and many species of soft corals.

Flynn Reef:
Rating: Novice - Intermediate
Currents: Mild Currents
Visibility: 15 to 20 metres
Depth: 5 to 30 metres

Flynn reef is one of our most popular reefs to dive and will offer the novice to the very experienced diver plenty of memorable dives. We have moorings at a number of the well known dive sites at Flynn reef such as Tracey’s Bommie, Gordon’s Mooring, Tennis Court and the Coral Gardens.  These sites offer you excellent wall dives, swim-throughs, overhangs and night diving. Expect to see an abundance of marine life combined with plenty of hard corals such as staghorn, table, plate and boulder coral heads and many species of soft corals.
Tracy’s Bommie 
Gordon’s Mooring 
Ski Slope
Boulders 
Coral Gardens 

Milln Reef:
Rating: Novice - Intermediate
Currents: Mild Currents
Visibility: 15 to 20 metres
Depth: 5 to 30 metres

Milln Reef offers a number of exciting dive sites such as Whale Bommie, Petaj Mooring, Swimming Pools I, Swimming Pools II and the Three Sisters to name a few. Our dive site at Petaj is home to resident turtles and white tip reef sharks. At the Swimming Pools you can expect to see schools of diagonally banded sweetlips and nudibranchs to name a few.

Milln reef offers excellent wall dives and swim throughs. Some of the walls are full of sleeping parrot fish in their mucus sacks, turtles and barracudas and the occasional bull ray. Whale bommie provides you with a good dive in depths exceeding 20 metres. A great site to dive at night where you can expect to see sleeping turtles, reef crabs, painted lobsters and some great soft corals, gorgonian fans.
Whale Bommie 
Petaj Mooring 
Pools 1 & 2 
Fish Town
Around the Bend
Wild Side

Thetford Reef:
Rating: Novice - Intermediate
Currents: Mild Currents
Visibility: 15 to 20 metres
Depth: 5 to 30 metres

Thetford reef is made up of numerous coral bommies where you can experience some very exciting wall dives and many swim throughs.  This reef is home to many soft and hard corals like staghorn and plate coral and an abundance of marine life.  Look for the giant clams, butterfly fish, damsels and angelfish.  Access to the reef is very weather and tidal dependent.
Cathedral 
Blue Lagoon 

Pellowe Reef:
Rating: Novice - Intermediate
Currents: Mild Currents
Visibility: 15 to 20 metres
Depth: 5 to 20 metres

Pellowe reef is a very exciting dive site!  A small isolated reef located close to the edge of the continental shelf. For this reason access to the reef is very weather and tidal dependent.  The reef drops away very quickly at places to 30 metres and stronger currents can be present as well.

This site offers divers an exciting wall dive and one great swim through. The majority of the dives will be in depths between 5 to 20 metres.  Being closer to the shelf large pelagic fish can be sighted along with the more regular sightings of schools of chevron barracuda, numerous sea cucumbers and nudibranchs.