I am a long term IT professional with a lifetime of experience (37 years) in Computers, Networking and Internet with an extreme passion for Scuba Diving and Underwater Photography.

I started diving with a Resort Dive, December 28 1998, on the Great Barrier Reef out of Port Douglas. Although I was very comfortable under the water diving with 11 other amateurs kicking up the bottom and bumping into everything, it was not pleasant.
I attended another Resort Dive in Fiji in 1999 and this was a great experience, just three of us and an instructor, I was hooked, but it wasn't until October 2001 while on a family holiday in Merimbula NSW, I attended my Open Water course. I only completed 13 dives that year (2001) and only 7 dives in 2002. Then in 2003 I decided to step up the diving and completed 42 dives and Advanced Open Water Certification.

In April 2004 I joined the Deep 6 Dive club and was shore diving most weekends with the occasional boat dive. This is where I met Rudy my long time dive buddy. We both attended an information night at Deep 6, West Ryde, about training and becoming a Dive Master. We both signed up for this program. It was 5 specialities, Master Scuba Diver, Rescue Diver and Divemaster. We spent the next 12 months attending theory nights, exams and dives and finally certified as a Divemaster in March 2005. We then continued on with all the specialities and qualified as Master Scuba Diver in August 2005.

During the first half of 2005, Rudy and myself dived many shore dives around Sydney until one day Rudy commented about how easy it was diving from a boat. All of a sudden the light bulb went off, I have a boat. On the 16th July 2005, we, Rudy and myself, took "Yes Dear" my 16ft Mustang Runabout out for its first dive.


Finally after 256 dives on 22nd November 2008 we had our last dive on "Yes Dear" to Minmi Trench, and then in December 2008, "Yes Dear Too" was purchased, a 5.6m Barcrusher.


I sold "Yes Dear" to a work colleague, who eventually sold it to Daryl Brett another St George Scuba Club member. He Sold it a year or 2 later.

Over the next few months we set the boat up for diving using tips from Michael http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/
Between 2008 and 2011, just the two of us dived most Saturdays. We both love wreck diving and with the help of Michael's GPS marks we started diving some of the deeper wrecks around Sydney. Wanting to know more about deeper diving we both attended the Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Theory courses with TDI. We both purchased a set of twin tanks manifolds etc for this course.

On 4th Sep 2011 I finally joined the St George Scuba Club where I still dive most Saturdays with Rudy. We continue to dive the deep wrecks when weather permits, most of the time I have a full boat of 4 divers, including myself. At the time of writing this, 30th Dec 2014, I have completed 506 dives on "Yes Dear Too"

In October of 2014, I completed my 1000th dive, this was on the Tuggerah wreck