Dive Review of Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy in
Australia/Perth/Rottnest Island

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Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy: "Cold but colorful caves of Rottnest with slightly chaotic Blue Destiny", Jan, 2023, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Sr. Contributor 23 reports with 12 Helpful votes). Report 13055.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We did 4 dives off Rottnest Island off ‘Blue Destiny’. The area is known for its topography, including caves, canyons, tunnels etc, and unique creatures, many endemic to west Australia. Although much less diverse than the Barrier Reef, and with virtually no hard corals, the compensation is the presence of many species found nowhere else. Blue Destiny is a large, comfortable boat catering to day-trippers, snorkelers, and scuba-divers, with an inevitable package-trip feel and slight lack of organization. One day we ended up a nitrox-tank short since the boat didn’t have enough to go round. Although we had specifically chosen to dive that day because it was advertised on the webpage as ‘deep dives’, the boat crew were surprised to find they’d also got a bunch of trainee divers on board. So, we ended up going to shallower dive sites, and been given directions how to swim to deeper bits. We didn’t want depth necessarily, just to visit deeper sites - so after burning all our air on the first dive swimming aimlessly about weed-covered rocks looking for structure, we just followed the other divers on the next dive. Which was quite beautiful (Cape Francis), a labyrinth of caves with walls covered in soft corals, sponges, starfish, 4-5 species of nudibranchs, White-barred Boxfish, Red-lip Morwong, Western Pomfred, among others. Next day’s dives (Little Armstrong Bay, Shoe Reef) were similar, quite shallow (12-14 m), strong surge sometimes, series of spectacular caves, swim-throughs, shafts, plenty of colorful sponges and soft corals, nudibranchs, small reef fish. Boat anchored 150 m from one dive site, giving us a long, unnecessary swim to the site and back. We got very cold in our 3 mm wetsuits - water was 19 C, despite air temp around 33 C.
Websites	Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Panama (Coiba, Pearl Is) St Vincent and Grenadines, UK, Red Sea (Sharm), Myanmar, Sulawesi (Wakatobi), Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Solomons (Guadalcanal), New Zealand (Poor Knights), Papua New Guinea, west Australia
Closest Airport	Perth	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, choppy, surge
Water Temp	19-20°F / -7--7°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	8-10 M / 26-33 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Freshwater bucket on boat

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Dive Review of Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy in Australia/Perth/Rottnest Island

Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy: "Cold but colorful caves of Rottnest with slightly chaotic Blue Destiny", Jan, 2023,

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Dive Review of Blue Destiny/Scubanautics Diving Academy in
Australia/Perth/Rottnest Island