About Under Down Under Diving
Under Down Under Diving is Hobart's dedicated scuba diving operator, offering PADI courses, guided dives, and full gear hire for exploring southern Tasmania's extraordinary underwater world. The cold, clear waters of the Derwent Estuary and surrounding coastline host a remarkable diversity of marine life — giant kelp forests, weedy seadragons, handfish (found nowhere else on Earth), cuttlefish, and an array of colourful sponge gardens that rival tropical reefs for visual impact.
Their service range includes Open Water and Advanced PADI certifications, guided shore and boat dives at sites around Hobart, the Tasman Peninsula, and Bruny Island, plus full equipment rental — wetsuits, drysuits, BCDs, regulators, tanks, torches, and underwater cameras. For certified divers, they offer guided dives to Tasmania's best sites including the Waterfall Bay kelp forest and the historic shipwrecks scattered along the coastline.
What makes Tasmanian diving special — and what Under Down Under communicates so well — is the unique temperate marine environment. Tasmania's waters are home to species found nowhere else, and the giant kelp forests create underwater cathedrals that rival anything in warmer waters. Their passionate guides ensure divers understand and appreciate the ecological significance of what they're seeing beneath the surface.
