Whitsunday Dive Centre

We are a resident Great Barrier Reef diving and diving equipment maintenance company established in 1980 and located in the Whitsunday region of Queensland in the town of Airlie Beach.

Our experience includes but is not limited to:

• Owning and operating Great Barrier Reef day dive and liveaboard dive boats

• Owning and operating a Commercial Diving business for moorings, salvage and underwater demolitions.

• Installation of high pressure cylinder filling systems and maintenance and sales of a wide range of diving compressors and associated equipment.

• Certified hydrostatic cylinder testing station owner/operator

• Retail store and agents for Aqualung, Mares and Oceanic diving equipment.

• Central Queensland agents for Bauer and Compair compressors

In 1990 we created our first website and commenced promoting the most reliable and best value for money diving trips and courses that we could find and based on our years of association with various diving companies.

We service a substantial amount of the scuba equipment that is used in the Whitsundays recreational diving industry and maintain a database of work undertaken for Workplace Health and safety requirements. I am also responsible for the maintenance and repair of a diverse range of commercial diving equipment including KM57 helmets, Interspiro Diveator masks, Amron control panels, Amron umbilicals and Cygnus ultrasonic depth gauges.

I maintain our website;
http://www.whitsundaydivecentre.com.au
for Great Barrier Reef scuba diving bookings for PADI courses and diving trips and Brenda is in charge of bookings and accounts.

Personal History

• Joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1970
• Returned serviceman - Vietnam - 1971
• Destroyer Navigating Officer course 1975
• Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving specialist 1977
• Commanding Officer RAN Clearance Diving Team - 1977-78
• Executive Officer and Diving Officer RAN Minehunter HMAS Curlew 1978 - 1980
• Commercial Diver 1980 to 1990
• Great Barrier Reef scuba diving 1980 to present day.