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Victorian Dive Sites
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Western Victoria
Wilsons Promontory and Victoria’s Bass Strait Islands
Wreck Graveyard
Western Australian Dive Sites
North West – Gascoyne Region
Ningaloo and Exmouth
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South Coast
Albany
Albany to Bremer Bay
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Recherche Archipelago
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WA Tropical – Temperate Mixing Zone
Central West – Geraldton and the Abrohlos Is
Central West Region – Lancelin to Dongara
Western Australia – Temperate Zone
Geographe Bay and Leeuwin-Naturaliste (Ngari Capes) Region
Perth – North of Swan River
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Rottnest Island
Western Australia – Tropical North
Broome
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Australian Marine Habitats
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Current Issues with the Oceans
?Netting is down but profits are up
Beach Erosion
Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world
Climate change basics
Climate change Impacts – Big Waves will Batter out coastline?
Crocodile Culls
Deep Ocean Minerals?
Erosion – Byron Bay
Major problem required a drastic solution?
Marine Parks
LOGO Competition – Tasmanians for Marine Parks
Microplastics
Noise Pollution
Overfishing
People pressure on coastal bays
Pests – Drupella Snails
Range Extension
Research into Shark Numbers
Sea ice communities surveyed in Antarctica
Seabirds full of plastics – Are those photos for real?
Seal Interactions: Perceptions vs the Science
Seaweed turn to coral
Sediments
Species Extinction
Success of MPAS
Totten Glacier Ice Shelf – Natural Melting or Climate Change?
Urchin Barrens
Whatever happened to the reefs off Bowen?
Dirty Waters – OK, but How?
Exciting Marine Life and where to see it
A Place all to Yourself.?
Blue Whales
Common Temperate Wrasse
Dugongs
Fur Seals
Great white sharks fear killer whales, killer whales fear pollution?
Gulls
Maugean Skate
Northern Territory Marine Life
Opah
Plankton
Plankton: important and beautiful
Port Jackson Shark
Right Whales
Saltwater Crocodiles
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Urchins
Whale Populations
Whale Shark Aggregations
History of the Oceans
Beginnings of life
Blackbirding
Cambrian
Cretaceous Period
Ediacaran Period
Fossil barnacles establish whale migrations
NSW Maritime Heritage – Stolen car smashes historic shipwreck
Paleogene Period 66 to 23.03 million years ago
Paleozoic Period
The Great Apes
The Mesozoic Era – Triassic Period
The Neogene Period 23.03 million years ago – 2.58 million years ago
The Shipwrecks of Bellambi ?
How the Oceans work
Currents and Upwellings
Marine Mapping – Bioregions
Pumice
Special Places
Bremer Canyon Killer Whales
Eucla
Exmouth, a unique place
GABO ISLAND
NSW – Sydney Harbour
NT Channel Islands
Raine Island
TAS – Actaeon Island
TAS – Macquarie Harbour
TAS- Tamar River
VIC – Merri MPA Warrnambool
Vic – Portland
VIC – Twelve Apostles
VIC- Point Danger
WA – Kimberley Coast
Magazine Editions
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Albatrosses seen with a plastic bottle
Brittle star studies
Celebrity Oil Rig Hits Hobart
Climate Update – Struggling to limit global warming.
Diving the “Troy D”
Dugong at risk to shark nets
GBR suffers 89% collapse in coral settlement
Great Australian Bight oil drilling report
Great Barrier Reef’s muddy flood
Great hammerhead Sphyrna mokarran
Great white shark decline changes the environment
Iron ore mine’s unexpected hazards
Leave only Bones
Lost volcano teems with marine life off the Tasmanian coast.
Macquarie Island
Maritime Heritage Feature – Chinese Seamen in Australian Waters and the “Fido” Wreck
New Davis runway
New species of velvetfish in the Kimberley
Pygmy shark Euprotomicrus bispinatus
Rare skate in peril
Record number of blue whales in Great Australian Bight
Scientists in race to save giant kelp off Tasmanian coast
Scientists try to ‘reseed’ reef
Sea snakes make record-setting deep dives
Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk
Sharks decline in Qld
Shellharbour/Bass Point
Slavers in Australia – The African slave trade
Sticking Up for Millennials
Swell Sharks
Sydney’s desalination plant and marine life
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep Antarctica frozen
The Chinese Australian Navy
The Ripbank – “the treacherous enemy of every ship”.
Why baby crayfish might decide to settle on your favourite reef
Williamstown’s Vengeance
Women in Pearl diving?
Wood-munching clams can chew through forests
Zombie scavengers of the ocean dead.
Marine parks campaign
Good planning makes good marine parks
Media Release
Media Releases
The Backstory
The Politics
What are marine parks?
Why support marine parks?
OCEANWATCH
Ocean watch forms and guides
Sea Slug Census
Seadragons Dive Group
Seadragons Safety Project
Seadragons Maritime Heritage Project
Special Projects
Fishwise Urchin Project
Handfish Project
The Big Blue Marine Community Expo
How the Oceans work
