DIVE FACILITIES AT MANTA LODGE & SCUBA CENTRE
Why dive with us? Besides being the only SSI Technical, rebreather and Instructor Training Centre in Brisbane, we are also North Stradbroke Island’s only fully-equipped dive centre with world-class dive facilities.
Manta Lodge and Scuba Centre operates a full-service dive shop with regular dive and snorkel trips to the spectacular reefs of North Stradbroke Island’s Moreton Bay Marine Park. Come see why divers from all over Australia and the world choose to dive, stay, and train with us! No one knows the area and the local dive sites like we do!
Dive Shop
We stock a range of Halcyon, Mares, Santi Diving, Fourth Element, Suex diver propulsion vehicles, SeaYa dive lights, rEvo rebreathers, Shearwater and Mares XR products in store for all your diving needs, including all those last-minute accessories and spare parts you may need right before a dive.
Heated Showers
Our outdoor heated showers will not only refresh you after your dive, but also ensure your comfort throughout the winter months.
Secure Storage
For those staying with us overnight, for the weekend, or diving over multiple days, take advantage of our drying racks and secure storage available for all your diving equipment.
Air, Nitrox and Trimix filling station
With well maintained, state of the art compressor and filling systems, we provide our divers with clean air and banked 33% nitrox on demand, with nitrox blends between 22%-33% available on request.
Boosted Oxygen and Helium are also both available on site.
Take a tour of our compressor facilities as part of your SSI Enriched Air Nitrox course and see why we have invested in a DiveTek membrane system!
Our air and nitrox are regularly tested to ensure our divers have access to the best quality breathing gasses.
Tank fill prices:
Air: $15 per tank
Membrane Nitrox: $20 per tank
Oxygen: 0.08c per litre
Helium: 0.15c per litre
Blending fee: $20 per cylinder (inc 100% O2 fills)
Premium Hire Options
We are the only Brisbane dive shop offering a premium equipment hire option, such as rEvo closed circuit rebreathers, Suex DPVs, Mares Horizon semi-closed rebreathers, Shearwater dive computers and Halcyon BC harness systems,
Take one out for a spin on your next dive!
The Boats
Our dive boats are ideally suited to the conditions surrounding North Stradbroke Island, allowing us to launch directly from the beach, giving you the shortest ride possible to some of the best dive sites Brisbane and South East Queensland have to offer.
Rigid One is a 5.5m inflatable with twin 90hp outboard engines, capable of carrying six divers, plus crew (or nine snorkelers, plus crew).
Rigid Too is a 6.1m inflatable with a single 250hp outboard engine, capable of carrying ten divers, plus crew.
Sport Diver is a 6.1m inflatable with a single 225hp outboard engine capable of carrying 8 divers plus crew.