Southern Diving Centre Staff


	The Southern Diving Centre Team Peter Costello Peter has been diving forever and has logged over 2000+ dives. He is an Advanced Open Water Instructor, a SSI TXR Tri-mix Instructor, a CDAA Deep Cavern Instructor and a Qualified Scuba Service Technician in general servicing and Oxygen Servicing. He has been a part of Southern Diving for the last 14 years and has been the Owner for the last 6 years. He loves diving for Cray’s, exploring deep wrecks and taking photos of marine life, while diving his Abyss Rebreather, and also diving the fresh water caves of Mount Gambier. His favourite local wreck is the AV Ulonga while his favourite local reefs are Weedy Reef at Victor Harbor, and the Horseshoe Drop-Off at Christies Beach. His best overseas dives are the Aaron Ward and the reefs at Uepi Island both in the Solomons. Ben Stanton Ben has been diving since 1995 and has logged 2000+ dives. He is passionate about teaching new divers and is currently a Dive Control Specialist and Technical Extended Range Instructor (TXR) as well as a certified CDAA Deep Cavern diver. He has been diving in many exotic locations around the world, including the cenotes in Mexico, Sipidan Island in Borneo and Cornwall in the United Kingdom to name a few. He enjoys the challenges of deep wreck diving, especially the wreck of the USS President Coolidge in Vanuatu. His favourite local dive sites include Seacliff Reef and the wreck of the South Australian. Rosie Dyster Rosie has logged about 1000 dives and has a current Instructor rating of Dive Control Specialist Instructor. Rosie's favourite local dive site is Rapid Bay (she also likes taking the V8 around all the bendy bits on the way). Her best dive would be the Australian Sea Lions at Pearson Island and overseas - Vanuatu (President Coolidge). Stuart Costello Stuart has been diving since 2005 and has logged 400+ dives over his years working in the store at Southern Diving. He loves teaching all scuba courses from Open Water through to the Advanced Courses. He has a wealth of diving experience around our local South Australian dive sites. Stuart loves the adrenaline rush of cave diving and living on the edge, and also being a Cray catching champion! His favourite dive sites include reefs along the SE Coast and the Ex-HMAS Hobart. Simon Doughty Simon is a Technical Extended Range (TXR) and Gas Blending Instructor as well as a CDAA Penetration diver with over 2,200 logged dives in 12 countries. He is an enthusiastic wreck and cave diver whose favourite sites are the WWII wrecks of Chuuk Lagoon and Vanuatu with his top local dive site being Rapid Bay Jetty. Paul Zuromski Paul began diving in 1997 and has been infatuated ever since. He became a professional in the diving industry in 2006 and holds several instructor qualifications that include Advanced Open Water, Oxygen Provider and First Aid. Paul enjoys travelling the world ‘living the dream’ and in search of the ultimate dive destination. He has logged in excess of 500 dives. To date he regards Palau Sipadan (Malaysia) as the most diverse and exciting location for the travelling diver thus far, and believe it or not Wool Bay on the Yorke Peninsular for accessibility and variety of local marine life. Rob Ricketts Rob is a Dive Control Specialist and CDAA deep cavern rated who haslogged 250+ dives. He has dived many of the sites around South Australia and Queensland, with his favourite dive so far being the shark feed at North Horn on Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea. The local dive sites that he enjoys the most would be any wreck, but the South Australian stands out as one of the best. He is also keen for a night dive at any time or place, but Edithburgh jetty is rates as one of the best. Carl Mooney Carl is Dive Control Specialist and also a CDAA Deep Cavern diver and Nitrox Gas Blender with 500 logged dives, in both South Australia and Queensland. There is no particular type of diving he doesn’t enjoy as long as there is a photo opportunity (his favourite critters are Nudibranchs). Favourite local dive sites would have to be Rapid Bay Jetty and the ex HMAS Hobart, but he loves diving in the warmer waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Brad Dohnt Brad is a Dive Control Specialist and a fulltime uni student studying Aquaculture and Marine Biology. He has been diving since Jan 2007 in that time has completed just shy of 100 dives and hopes to double that by the end of the year. He is also a committee member and Equipment manager at the FUUC (Flinders Uni Underwater Club). It is very rare a week goes by when he doesn't get out for a dive. Locally his favourite dive sites would have to be the HA Lumb and Aldinga Reef and he is also particularly fond of night dives. Jamie Smith Jamie is the skipper of 'Southern Diving' and is an Advanced Diver, and also holds a Commercial Divers Certification.