Sea Scouts Jetty

Shore Dive | Shore access

Sea Scouts Jetty
Source: Bayside Library Service

Depth: 1 m (3.28 ft) to 5 m (16 ft)

Level: Open Water and beyond.

Ideal Conditions:
Sea Scouts Jetty is best dived with north-westerly to easterly winds. Avoid diving with strong south-easterly to westerly winds. As this dive site is sheltered under the cliffs to some extent, it can be a good dive when the winds are unfavourable elsewhere. Just before the high tide will give the clearest water. See WillyWeather (Ricketts Point) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.

What To Expect:
The Sea Scouts Jetty dive site lies just around the corner from Table Rock Point in Beaumaris Bay, on the eastern side of Port Phillip. It's just outside of the boundaries of the Rickett's Point Marine Sanctuary.

Sea Scouts Jetty is a great site for beginner snorkellers and night dive enthusiasts. It's so close to the city, thus very convenient for those living in Melbourne. Great for getting back in the water, a night dive after work, or just an excuse to get wet!

Sea Scouts Jetty Dive Site Map | © The Scuba Doctor

Location: Black Rock, Victoria 3193
MELWAY Ref: Page 86 E9

Parking:
Park in Rennison Street, Beaumaris, and carefully cross Beach Road. (There is no beachside parking, so please be careful crossing Beach Road.)

Dive Entry:
Entry and exit via the concrete ramp alongside the Sea Scouts Jetty is easy. Always take a dive float with a dive flag!

Sea Urchin Dive Site
© Julian Finn, Museum Victoria

Divers have the opportunity to catch Sea Urchin at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, dive gloves and Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch Sea Urchin.

See article-catching-sea-urchin for practical Sea Urchin catching advice from The Scuba Doctor, and melbourne-sea-urchin-dives for other dive sites where you can catch Sea Urchin near Melbourne.

Boon Wurrung / Bunurong country

Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes parts of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-west, down to Wilson's Promontory in the south-east, including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island and Phillip Island, plus Western Port. We wish to acknowledge the Boon Wurrung as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.

 

Sea Scouts Jetty Location Map

Latitude: 37° 59.729′ S   (37.995482° S / 37° 59′ 43.74″ S)
Longitude: 145° 2.344′ E   (145.03907° E / 145° 2′ 20.65″ E)
Datum: WGS84 | Google Map | Get directions
Added: 2021-03-18 03:39:55 GMT, Last updated: 2022-03-22 15:09:48 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Table Rock, Ricketts Point, 226 m, bearing 267°, W
Beaumaris Bay, Bayside, Port Phillip.
Depth: 1 to 5 m.

DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.

The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source of GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.