Would certainly recommend the 2 night live aboard dive trip - Fantastic stay onboard with gear set up for each dive and lots of support available if needed. As an infrequent diver I was initially anxious, however Jonno was capable, calm and available, supporting me through my first dive and night dive. Help was given with getting back on board/removing fins and checks done thoroughly. Zac and Deanna, who led the team, remembered our names. This made us feel valued and respected. We ended up doing all available 10 dives! The room was lovely. I was able to watch the moon and sunrise from my comfy bed. The air conditioning inside is set to 'fridge', so make sure you take layers and warm pyjamas. We slept well with the extra blankets provided.

The diving was so fun - Steven was a awesome instruckter he really made learning to dive fun

Great excursion - Great guides, greatly organized. I was not a snorkeled and they took the time to instruct and lead me. Other snorkeling was well guided. Overnight stay was very well organized

Extraordinary stay on Ocean Quest! - On my bucketlist! This was my third visit to the Great Barrier Reef and an overnight stay was on top of my list. We were recommended the Ocean Quest by our AirBnB hosts and the trip exceeded our expectations. The professional and friendly staff made the difference between being a tourist and being a guest and a big shout-out to Auggie and Panchita who took us on our two introductionary dives and showed us the marvels of the reef - including Nemo.

Highly Recommend! - 10/10, 5 Stars. Above and beyond on everything. I specifically want to call out out guide, Van, who was so attentive and careful, and patient and thorough. The kind of individual you want taking care of your family. The kind of individual our world needs more of. Well done, good sir!

What a way to experience the GBR - Was a great experience and well worth the trip. Staff was nice and definitely took care of us. I will definitely do it again

A miserable snorkelling experience for me but still stuff to like - There are things to like about divers den, the crew are generally excellent and the food and facilities on Oceanquest are good. Unfortunately for me the whole experience was ruined by the insistence on making me wear long fins. I know for most people fins are a good idea but for me they turn a confident open water swimmer into someone who struggles. They claimed this was a Queensland legal requirement (although I can find no evidence that this is actually the case). Common sense should be applied, it actually made me less safe. At the very least this requirement should be on the website in FAQs for example.

Learning divers. - I do not recommend it for certified divers who require relaxed experience with experienced divers. There are all the guides in the learning process, nervous, it is a constant confusion of own equipment with that of the boat. Separate theme is the unsanitary of the dining room, we had to eat next to the trash jar, the smell at lunchtime was unbearable given that these were full (I will leave photo evidence. Supposedly the food service offered was buffet, but we were told that it was a one-time service, that is, you could not stop a second time to serve food (the head in charge did not allow my partner to serve food again). Our reservation was on December 3, 2025. Eventually they asked us to check our belongings because one of the guides lost his flashlight, embarrassing maximum, in front of the driver of the car checking the bags, showing him that the diving torches were ours and not those of Diversden. In terms of diving, in which the experience of diving, at night the guide lost a diver, entered into a nervousness, which I do not wait for the respective minute, made us immediately climb to surface and from there began to look for it and we had to swim to the boat, judge your action, I will not say more, because they did not even flinch in the boat.

Cold comfort for change - Not enough info is given about itinerary before departure. The boat you leave on is not the boat you stay/sleep on, and whatever you bring with you for overnight you will have to keep with you on the smaller boat, Sea Quest. Wear swimwear when you leave, you won’t check into your room on the boat until about 4pm. The toilets on SeaQuest are small and very wet and you will use them repeatedly. Sea Quest takes you to a nice bit of the reef for a snorkel or dive. If you have a heart condition, like I do, and tell them about it prior, like I did, they won’t let you dive without a pre-existing dive medical. Get one, it can’t be done on the boat and you will pay for a dive you won’t be allowed to do. They will refund you. If, on the other hand, your kid can’t equalise his ear pressure when diving (even though he has dived before) they won’t. So you get to the reef and you get changed in a toilet to snorkel, you snorkel and have, admittedly, a lovely time doing so on a very fishy bit of reef, then before you know it, it’s time for lunch. You can’t go back in the boat wet so you have to get changed. You eat lunch, which isn’t bad and they take any allergies into account if you give notice. But then it’s back out on the reef. Back into the toilet, struggle into your wet gear. Lovely reef again. Then it’s off to meet up with Ocean Quest where you will stay the night, but you can’t transfer wet and if you thought it sucked getting your wet bathers on in that tiny loo, try getting changed again in a wetter toilet as the boat jumps around the sea like a yo-yo. So you pull up at Ocean Quest, wet in your dry clothes, bruised and battered and feeling sick. Then you transfer over to the big boat. You leave your shoes on Sea Quest by mistake but they don’t clean it so don’t worry they will be there the next afternoon when you get back on it. You don’t need the shoes as shoes are not allowed on either boat. Immediately you get on the freezing cold Ocean Quest (aircon on all the time and cannot be turned down or off) it’s time for a dive briefing aimed at scuba divers, snorkellers are second class citizens nobody cares about. So you don your wet gear again Another pretty decent snorkel on a new bit of the reef which is uncannily like the bit you just dove on. So much so you couldn’t tell you’ve moved. Then it’s dinner time, and agin, you gotta get changed but at least you have a room to change in. The rooms are surprisingly large, but very cold, and the sea is not warm. There is nowhere to hang or dry you wet stuff so it will still be wet and cold the next day when you put it on again. Dinner is served individually plated and options for allergies are taken into account. There’s honestly not much of it and I didn’t really like it but there is plenty of hot chocolate, and it was good stuff, tbh. The water was rough and I hurled it back up soon after anyway. Did I mention how cold it is on the boat? God it was cold. I’ve slept in slightly colder igloos but the crew were forthcoming with blankets. Evening shark snorkel got canned because it was too rough. I skipped the morning snorkel cos I still felt ill from the night before but it was rough and otherwise ok. The transfer back to SeaQuest for trip back to cairns after brekkie means getting changed again. Shoes are where you left them but also all the food from lunch is still strewn around the floor, cos like I said, they don’t clean it. The trip back to Cairns was exceptionally rough, which is not the crews fault but my wife was literally thrown out of her seat and onto the floor atop a hatch that opened and shut like Pac-Man the whole trip and staff could not have cared less. Crew member, who eventually came to check if y wife was ok was advised about the flapping hatch and said “oh, good, then you being stuck there is keeping it closed”. It was not and I really worried a toe or finger would be severed as it flapped up snd down, now with the full weight of an adult on it. The captain of the boat was clearly under pressure and running late, cos slowing down to, you know, keep passengers safe, was not going to happen.

Book with various Den directly - Book directly with Divers D’en I thought it was diving like announcing but it was just snorkeling. But I can arrange with the company directly