Loloata Island Jetty:
Distance from Loloata - on site
Best Diving Depths - 0 to 10 meters
Best Time / Tide - early morning or night dive. High tide.
Highlights - Dwarf lionfish and red (black) firefish, ringed pipefish, colourful patterned black sea urchins, razorfish, mantis shrimp, double ended pipefish, emperor shrimp, banded sea krait, harlequin ghost pipefish.
Easy dive.

A 20 Havoc (WWII Wreck):
Distance from Loloata - 1 nautical mile (from Jetty)
Best Diving Depths - 5 meters (reef) 18 meters (airplane wreck)
Best Time / Tide - morning or high tide.
Highlights - Fully intact WWII American A 20 Havoc bomber on sand bottom. Pretty hard coral garden in the safety stop zones.

Lion Island:
Distance from Loloata - 0.8 nautical mile
Best Diving Depths - 3 to 25 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any. Several dive sites in a small area.
Highlights - Reef, sand, seagrass, "muck" dives and scuttled wrecks. The weird and wonderful abound here. Inhabitants that belong to another world and another dimension. These dives are mandatory for serious macho photographers.

North Patch:
Distance from Loloata - 1.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 6 to 12 meters
Best Time / Tide - High tide.
Highlights - Lovely hard coral garden. many varieties of not so common hard corals growing in fine formations on this small reef. Often visited by large Spanish Mackerel.

South Patch:
Distance from Loloata - 2.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 4 to 15 meters
Best Time / Tide - High tide. Often effected by currents during spring tides.
Highlights - Pillars of hard corals, often with undercuts and small caves underneath lots of colour. Good amount of resident reef fish.

Lilians Patch:
Distance from Loloata - 2.7 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 6 to 20 meters
Best Time / Tide - Can be effected by spring tides.
Highlights - Pretty stands of various hard corals and corkscrew sea whips. Colourful soft corals and fan corals. Scorpionfish, stonefish and Rhinopias (Merletts Scorpionfish) can be found.

Quayles Reef:
Distance from Loloata - 3.2 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 4 to 12 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any.
Highlights - Colour! Every conceivable colour splashed across the reef. Resident Rhinopias (Merletts Scorpionfish) and Harlequin ghost pipefish.

The Tunnel:
Distance from Loloata - 2.9 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 5 to 15 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any. Strong winds and high seas make this site inaccessible.
Highlights - Small tunnel swim through in 12 meters, usually packed with fish. Sloping wall with seawhips, gorgonian fans and soft corals.

Pacific Gas (Wreck):
Distance from Loloata - 3.1 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 16 to 30 meters Wreck lays with her mast in 9 meters and her rudder in 45 meters.
Best Time / Tide - Location is exposed so weather conditions must be right. Caution with moderate currents diving spring tides.
Highlights - Scuttled in 1986 for sport divers. Ship is 65.1 meters long. Tremendous quantities of fish surrounding the wreck. magnificent corals particularly on the mast. Resident lionfish, leaf scorpionfish and ghost pipefish. One of the two sites where the red lined anthias is found.

MV Pal 2 (Wreck):
Distance from Loloata - 3.4 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 15 to 23 meters. Wreck lays with her masts in 15 meters and her keel in 27 meters.
Best Time / Tide - Any. Very protected site in most weather conditions.
Highlights - Scuttled in 1982 for sport divers, 25 meter steel prawn trawler. Masts are thick with black corals, soft corals and tubastraea trees. Good quantities of fish life on and around the wreck Red lined anthias and Harliquin ghost pipefish found here.

The End Bommie:
Distance from Loloata - 3.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 6 to 20 meters
Best Time / Tide - Out going tide for fishlike
Highlights - Rhinopias (Merletts scorpionfish) and crocodile flathead are often found here. Walls covered with gorgonian fans, pink seawhips, tubastraea and soft coral trees. Falling tide brings vast quantities of fish life to feed in the current. Pygmy seahorses are not uncommon.

The Big Drop:
Distance from Loloata - 3 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - From 10 meters down
Best Time / Tide - Any. Caution must be taken to avoid currents during spring tides.
Highlights - Sheer wall, large gorgonian fans in deeper water, chance of seeing sharks and rays. Abundant fish life, including pygmy seahorses.

Suzies Bommie:
Distance from Loloata - 3.3 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 12 to 30 meters
Best Time / Tide - Exposed location. Caution must be observed with weather and currents.
Highlights - Pristine bommie situated on white sand. Plethora of corals and fish life. Superlatives cannot describe this dive site. Good site for pygmy seahorses.

Baldwins Bommie:
Distance from Loloata - 3.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 15 to 35 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any. Caution with strong winds and high seas.
Highlights - Something for all lens sizes, from extreme wide angle right down to extreme macro. Chance of encountering sharks and rays. Hard and soft corals abound. Large schools of fish with right current.

The Chimneys:
Distance from Loloata - 6.8 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 6 to 30 meters
Best Time / Tide - Slightly exposed location, subject to moderate currents.
Highlights - Pelagic fish often seen cruising off the side of the bommie. Good macro life for those with keen eyes.

The Pumpkin Patch:
Distance from Loloata - 6.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 10 to 25 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any. Caution with high seas and moderate currents.
Highlights - Chance of seeing sharks. Abundant reef fish. Good coral cover, black coral trees, soft corals, gorgonian fans, staghorn corals, plate corals, ships. Many excellent cover shot opportunities.

Nadines Passage:
Distance from Loloata - 7.6 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 5 to 50 meters
Best Time / Tide - A short drift on a rising tide.
Highlights - Massive gorgonians, expansive fields of soft corals mixed with pink seawhips. Walls and ridges adorned with beauty unsurpassed. Good chance of finding pygmy seahorses.

The Pinnacles:
Distance from Loloata - 9.2 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 10 to 35 meters
Best Time / Tide - Any. Moderate currents during spring tides.
Highlights - Passing pelagic fish quite common. Magnificent corals, especially gorgonian fax, pink seawhips and branching soft corals. Rich variety of resident reef fish. Pygmy seahorses. Sea snakes quite common. Excellent site for photographers.

Sandy Passage:
Distance from Loloata - 15.5 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 10 to 45 meters
Best Time / Tide - Incoming tide. Usually done as a drift up the channel.
Highlights - Abundant fish life waiting for passing morsels. Usually a good chance of seeing sharks, eagle rays and possibly mantas. Large gorgonian fans, barrel sponges, seawhips and huge tubastraea trees.

P.J.'s Passage:
Distance from Loloata - 21 nautical miles
Best Diving Depths - 10 to 40 meters
Best Time / Tide - Usually a drift on a incoming tide, but can be done as an outgoing drift. Inaccessible in any but good conditions.
Highlights - Home of eagle rays, occasionally mobula and sharks. Expect the unexpected.