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Marine Education Program -
If there are any budding marine biologist out there, these September School Holidays, Diveline Scuba Centre will be running a Marine Education Program. Your chance to encounter different marine and freshwater species, join in environmental activities and be a citizen scientist.
Prerequisite: Interest in Marine Biology & Ocean Conservation
Ages 10 years and Over
Open Water Scuba Diving Certification or Snorkelling experience
*if you do not have one of these please contact the shop
Program dates
Tuesday to Thursday 08 - 10 April 2025
Approximately 08:30 am to 3:00 pm
Tuesday to Thursday 15 - 17 April 2025
Approximately 08:30 am to 3:00 pm
Activities include:
- Scuba Diving and Snorkelling
- Collecting seaweed specimens and creating a marine herbarium
- Marine Flora and Fauna Identification
- Dip netting and examining specimens under a microscope
- Sea Dragon / Nudibranch Search
- Collecting invasive marine pests
- Fish Identification
- Using iNaturalist and Seadragon search
- Freshwater health checks at Sweetwater Creek using Waterbug App
*Activities and location of dive sites are weather dependant. Final details for dive days will not be determined till the week before course dates.
Proposed Itinerary for Week 1
*Schedule subject to change due to weather conditions
Tuesday 08 April 2025
8:30 am – 3:00 pm Invasive Species Collection – Frankston Pier
Snorkel / Scuba Dive
• Collect Wakame Seaweed
• Collect Northern Pacific Seastars
Lunch
• Count Seastar and Seaweed
• Collect Epifauna from collection
Wednesday 09 April 2025
8:30 am – 3:00 pm Dipnetting Olivers Hill and Frankston Pier
• Collect and Photograph Marine Life at Olivers Hill and Frankston Pier
Lunch
• Use microscope and macroscope to photograph and identify species
Thursday 10 April 2025
8:30 am – 3:00 pm Nudibranch Census – Blairgowrie Pier
Snorkel / Scuba Dive
• Photograph Nudibranchs
Lunch
• Submit pictures to iNaturalist – Nudibranch Census
Proposed Itinerary for Week 2
*Schedule subject to change due to weather conditions
Tuesday 15 April 2025
8:30 am - 3:00 pm Octopus Gardens
• Dive at Rye Pier
Lunch
• Work on National Geographic Slingshot Video
Wednesday 16 April 2025
8:30 am – 3:00 pm Seadragon Search
• Photograph Weedy Seadragons at Flinders Pier
Lunch
• Submit photos to Seadragonsearch.org
Thursday 17 January 2025
Full day at Melbourne’s world class sea life centre, including back stage tour and jelly fish science experience.
Cost:
School Holiday Program (6 Days)
• Club Members $100 per day / $500 all 6 days
• Non-Member $125 per day / $650 all 6 days
School Holiday Program (6 Days)
• Club Members $100 per day / $500 all 6 days
• Non-Member $125 per day / $650 all 6 days
*Includes the cost of hiring scuba/snorkelling equipment. If you have all of your own equipment, it is $75 a day for the program.
Optional Additional Costs:
PADI Underwater Naturalist Diver $100
PADI Fish Identification Diver $100
PADI Underwater Naturalist Diver $100
PADI Fish Identification Diver $100
Full 6 day program and PADI open water qualification (one additional day will be required on Monday the 14th of April): $1,000 – if interested in the PADI course please contact the shop.
The program consists of theory and practical sessions
Learn about the different phylums, identify different species from Victorian waters.
Create an Aquatic Herbarium
Identify differnt species
Explore freshwater aquatic life
Learn ways to become a citizen scientist!!