Pro Dive Brisbane
SSI Underwater Naturalist Marine ID Course
15, 16, 20 September 2009
Neville Coleman - SSI Special Courses Instructor
Neville Coleman will be running a
SSI Underwater Naturalist Maine Life ID Course
with Pro Dive Brisbane.
Theory and practical sessions will be held over the nights of the Tuesday 15th, and Wednesday 16th of September 2009.
These sessions will each be 4 hours duration of Power Point presentation covering the entire course, as per example of course program available
on this website at SSI Marine Life ID courses.
Materials supplied will include two text books and a student folder.
Students are encouraged to read the program for the course and to take note of their requirements.
This is a certificate course, and all applications for PIC's will be handled by Pro Dive Brisbane.
Two dives are required for the course and these will be made on Sunday 20th September.
All details including costs and any other inquiries can be made by contacting Mark at Pro Dive Brisbane. ( 07) 3368 3766 or < mark@prodivebrisbane.com.au>
This workshop is suitable for all levels of divers. Participants will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of marine life identification, fish species and the underwater environment in general.
( Copyright - photo: Nigel Marsh)
Moreton Bay
It is well known that Moreton Bay is one of the Queensland coast's most diverse marine life areas. With over 20 or more dive sites each one has a prolific number of
interesting species with many life forms as yet undescribed.
We will be looking at easy ways to recognise every major group of sea creatures and learning how to use marine life identification guides.
Reference to dive sites at Moreton Bay and images can be seen at DESTINATIONS Diving Australia on this site.
PROFILE/BIOGRAPHY Neville Coleman
Honorary Fellow Australian Institute of Professional Photography
Research Associate Australian museum
Consultant Queensland Museum
Project AWARE Honorary Board of Governors ASIA/PACIFIC
INTERNATIONAL SCUBA DIVERS HALL OF FAME - 2007 inductee
Multi-award winning photographic environmentalist, Neville has been seriously recording the aquatic wildlife of the Asia/Pacific region since 1963.
With over 1000 published articles in over 150 magazines, 100,000 images and 65 marine life natural history books (33 self published) to his credit, he is one of the most accomplished underwater educational natural history authors in the world.
In 1969 /73 he led the Australian Coastal Marine Expedition on the first underwater photographic fauna survey ever attempted around an entire continent. Since then he has completed over 160 expeditions throughout Australia and across the Asia/Indo-Pacific, from the Seychelles to Mexico, documenting some 12,000 species of aquatic flora and fauna and discovering over 450 new species of marine life.
Nevilles scientific collections, photographs and observations have contributed to over a hundred scientific papers and journals, books and magazines.
Although Nevilles first love is the sea, he is just as much at home photographing the denizens of Asia/Indo-Pacifics Rainforest jungles, Wilderness wetlands, Mountain montages, Mangrove swamps and the Australian Deserts.
His expeditions, fauna surveys and teach tours are at the forefront of natural history exploration, education and conservation. Few divers anywhere have contributed as much to the science and literature of marine identification/biology, or the adventure experience of scuba diving.