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Scuba Skydiving with Silversonic

Australian Scuba Skydiving

How would you spend one day in paradise? That was the question Tourism Queensland and Tourism Tropical North Queensland posed to 20 Aussie film makers, arming them with GoPro cameras to film their adventure.

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Whale Shark delights Silverswift passengers

Whale Shark

Silverswift passengers were given a rare glimpse of a Whale Shark at our Coral Gardens reef site on Flynn Reef. Measuring 8-10 metres length, it swam past the certified divers at a depth of 8 metres.
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Swim with Minke’s on Silversonic – Queensland’s Top Secret

Minke whale

Swimming with Minke Whales has been voted Queensland’s top secret and Australia’s third best kept secret.
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A feast of events with something for everyone heading our way!

Green Island Ocean Swim

From elite sporting pursuits to community events and family fun, the Quicksilver Group is delighted to be supporting a raft wonderful ways to experience and enjoy our unique World Heritage reef and rainforest environment.

We hope you can join us to celebrate this wonderful calendar of events.
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Rare Fish Find

Rare Fish Find

The Weedy or Lacy Scorpionfish is a beautiful rare and rarely seen fish species but visitors aboard Silversonic this week have been amazed at seeing this fish which is “uber” rare to see.
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Coral Spawning

Coral Spawning

Russell Hore, marine biologist and manager of Quicksilver’s environmental division, Reef Biosearch, provides a fascinating insight into the unique sex life of corals on the Great Barrier Reef!
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Awesome whale sightings

Awesome whale sightings

What a bonus it has been for passengers travelling to the Outer Reef this month with whale sightings and many putting on awesome acrobatic displays too! » Read the full Story

BBC Great Barrier Reef Documentary – Showcasing the amazing Great Barrier Reef

BBC Great Barrier Reef Documentary - Showcasing the amazing Great Barrier Reef

“With the UK market having access to the Great Barrier Reef BBC documentary on DVD and Blu-ray so soon after screening on TV is fantastic as they are keen travellers to Cairns and Port Douglas. » Read the full Story

Mother and baby Sei Whale sighted by Silversonic

Mother and baby Sei Whale sighted by Silversonic

Passengers and crew aboard the Port Douglas-based dive and snorkel vessel Silversonic were excited to see a mother and baby Sei Whales traveling home from the reef yesterday.
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Upside down snowstorm on the Reef – ticked off the bucket list!

Coral Spawning 2011

Cairns, Great Barrier Reef: Mother Nature was on cue for the Great Barrier Reef’s annual coral spawning with passengers aboard Silverswift’s Night Dives excursions being witness to this unique spectacle. 
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