Diving the SS Yongala

The SS Yongala is a passenger ship that sank on 23 March 1911 off Cape Bowling Green. It was on it's way from Melbourne to Cairns when it got trapped in a cyclone. All the 122 people on board of the Yongala died.
In 1958 the wreck was discovered south of Townsville and not long after the discovery it became a major dive location and tourist attraction for Townsville.

The SS Yongala is 109 meters long and is lying approxamately 22 km east of Cape Bowling Green and 89 km south east of Townsville. In the more than 90 years since the SS Yongala sunk the wreck has become an artificial reef and houses a diversity of marine life.