Cave Diving in Fossil Cave

Cave Diving in Fossil Cave, Mount Gambier South Australia is a fantastic experience. It's a dive site that is located via a sinkhole next to a main road and can be accessed by those with the CDAA (Cave Divers Association of Australia) Cave Certification or higher. The cave gets it's name from the large number of extinct animal bones that were discovered there in the 1970's during a proper survey. It's now known more for it's crystal clear water and interesting topography although you can still see the pickets around which the survey grid was attached.

Although there is also another small cave at the other end of the sinkhole, which has some interesting features, it's mainly the south eastern cave that is dived. Divers enter one end of a crescent shaped surface pool but as the passages below curves around following this crescent, a greenish tinged light can be seen refracting through the water from above in many parts of the dive site. It makes it one of the more unique and surreal caves to explore in the region.

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