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University of Queensland Underwater Club (Unidive)

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Company description Welcome to UniDive online.
Unidive is the University of Queensland Underwater Club. Dive trips are organized most weekends around the Brisbane area. So, if you want to go diving, read on!
If you do not have your own diving equipment, Unidive has well maintained gear (BCDs, regs, wetsuits, fins, weightbelts, tanks) for hire at very good rates. The club has its own rigid inflatable boat enabling us it access most of the dive sites in SE Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
The club meets every Thursday night at our gear shed, located on the outside of the UQ pool complex, near to the Brisbane River. Come down any Thursday at 6 pm to enjoy our BBQ expertise, meet other divers and sign up for trips.
On our site you will find information about up-coming dive trips , contact details and copies of recent editions of the club newsletter, Wobbiegossip.
Diving underwater is fun and being comfortable underwater is even more
fun. But to be comfortable underwater you need to be fit and get diving
experience. You can get diving experience by conducting lots of dives or by getting more advanced training. Unidive offers education and training to help you keep up your skills and learn new ones.
Most UniDive courses are organised by the UniDive training officer. The
courses are being taught by a group of experienced instructors who like
to teach diving for fun in their spare time. So let me introduce the
current team.
Unidive instructors are: Diana Kleine, Douglas Stetner and Chris Roelfsema.
The dive masters who have been assisting on courses are: James Foster, Sean
Ivermee, Trent Simon, Simon Pierce, Daniel Levy, Kathryn McMahon and others.
If you want to be involved in the training or have some great ideas for
it, please contact the training officer.
Training Officer is Chris Roelfsema (see contact page) or meet
one of the training team at the gear shed on thursdays.
UniDive is not only about diving and relaxing on beautiful divesites but over the last 5 years we have been involved in a number of community funded projects. For these projects, the UniDive members volunteerd to help the marine environment. These projects were possible by the succesfull input of UniDive volunteers, the collaborators and their sponsors. The projects resulted in: - increased diving knowledge, skills and experience - friendships and fun - increased knowledge about underwater surveying techniques - increased knowledge in identifying fish, inverts and substrate species - media coverage for the club - and references for club members and for future projects.
All club divers must have a safety sausage - these can be purchased at the shed
All club divers must have a means for measuring time under water
If the club boat is being used, you need to have at least one person other than the approved boathandler on the trip who has a recreational shipmasters licence and is comfortable with staying in the boat whilst the approved boathandler goes diving.
If the compressor is going to be used, make sure you have a compressor professor on the trip.
Cars - 4 people per car max., unless tanks are not being taken or are being towed in a trailer. The club does have access to a couple of trailers which can be very useful on trips.
Experience levels of your divers. The club always puts inexperienced divers with more experienced divers. As a general rule of thumb, divers who have done less than 10 dives must be buddied with someone who has done over 30 dives. Divers who have done between 10-20 dives should also be buddied up with someone more experienced if possible. If you are not very experienced, talk to Tamsin or one of the safety committee members about who your potential divers are so we can ensure that the level of experience on the dive is appropriate.
Location description: The Boat...
Cool Change is a 6 meters Swift aluminum hulled rigid inflatable built in July 2000. The boat can carry 8 divers with two tanks or 10 divers on a single tank dive. The boat is powered by a 135 hp Mariner V6 and has a large inboard fuel tank (150 liters, ~6 hr running time).
The Name...


Cool Change is named, for some bizarre reason, after a song by the Little River Band (an ancient Aussie group).
Boat Handlers


Club Approved Boat Handlers can take the boat out on dive trips. Approved boat handlers must have:

Queensland Recreational Shipmasters Licence

Club-Approved Boat Handling course. This may a commercial course approved by the safety committee or an in-house course

Current CPR and O2 qualifications

Completed a Form 1 which must be approved by the safety committee

Before they can boat handle a particular dive site, the boat handler must have also completed and have approved by the safety committee a Form 2 or for a new club dive site, a Form 3 . Before approval will be given by the safety committee, at each site boat handlers need to prove to the club boating officer that they are proficient at launching and retrieving the boat, locating and navigating to and from the dive sites, anchoring and retrieving divers from the site

Completed a Form 4 certification confirmation at the commencement of each year.

Any club member with a Recreational Shipmasters Licence can drive the club boat under the supervision of an Approved Boat Handlers. Members wanting to become Approved Boat Handlers are encouraged to ask to drive the boat at every opportunity and maintain a log of their experience to back up their application to the safety committee. Unidive organises training sessions and Recreational Shipmasters Licence testing sessions (currently costing ~$120 for the test and ~$30 for the Licence).
Towing The Boat

Members wishing to tow the boat currently need to prove their proficiency to the Boat Officer before towing. The boat weighs ~1150 kg empty, so the tow vehicle being used must rated to pull at least 1200 kg. Approved towers are: Robin Aursich, Ben Longstaff, James Foster, Chris Roelfsema, John Holmes, Kathy Myers, Roy Himes, Jeremy Ford, Peter Hwang and Kim Gilliam.
How to organise a trip
Decide where you want to go diving - options include:
Weekend trips - Stradbroke Island (charter), Moreton Island (club boat), Byron Bay (club boat, or use a dive shop), Noosa ((club boat, or use a dive shop)
Day trips - Tweed Heads (charter), Mooloolaba (club boat, or use a dive shop), Flinders Reef (charter or dive shop). Check out back issues of the club newsletter on the website to find out more about the diving in these locations.
The easiest day trip to organise is Tweed Heads, and the easiest weekend trip is Stradbroke Island.
See more info on our site.

Website: Preview http://clubs.sport.uq.edu.au/unidive/ by Thumbshots.org http://clubs.sport.uq.edu.au/unidive/
Organises dive trips on most weekends around the Brisbane area.

Contact information:
Phone: 3217 7997
Mobile: 0407 734 177
Street Address:

Queensland
Australia
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 10 Brisbain, Vladivostok, Sidney, Canberra
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