The Great Barrier Reef is a scuba and snorkel heaven. It is located in Queensland - occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent - which offers an untold colorful and exotic marine life with isolated atolls, astonishing walls, thrilling shark feeding stations and intact shipwrecks.

The climate of the coastal strip is influenced by warm ocean waters, keeping the region free from extremes of temperature.

More than 1,500 types of fish, 4,000 types of mollusks, 350 types of echinoderms and 400 types of coral are a magnet for divers from around the world each year. There’s a complete new underwater world waiting to be explored.

The Great Barrier Reef is a protected World Heritage area and it is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Created around 10,000 years ago, the coral reefs prosper in the temperate seas of Queensland’s tropical coast.

The Great Barrier Reef consists of approximately 2900 individual reefs and 71 coral islands which are preserved. Extending along Queensland’s coast for over 2000 kilometres, the multi-colored loveliness of the world’s largest area of living coral is an extraordinary diving experience.

Queensland offers a mythic variety of exceptional dive spots, from its legendary Reef to the baffling undersea mountains of the Coral Sea. Many of these places are still unexplored.

Intensely colored coral, wonderful underwater landscape and striking submarine wildlife are immersed in warm, clear water where visibility is measured in the hundreds of feet and wet suits are rarely necessary.

Queensland's dive operators are all very apprehensive about ecological protection of their coral reefs. The Reef is living. When diving at this point, please remember this and try hard to help improving the diving in Queensland.

Mask and fins is a wonderful holiday outfit in Queensland.