This year’s group of Year 10 divers has seen both amazing and challenging conditions. The groups are doing amazingly well under the circumstances and we have a 75 per cent completion rate so far. We have been in the Tweed River and in the ocean at Julian Rocks for the courses, and students have applied themselves in a dynamic and enthusiastic way that will enabled them to continue their underwater adventures long into the future.

Students who have not completed the course will be participating in a turtle specialty snorkelling course, making scientific observations of Byron Bay’s endangered loggerhead turtles. The student’s contribution will be added to the global data collection to aid in the protection of this species.

Rhys Edwards