C/- 22 Brisbane Water Drive, Koolewong, 2256 email : trent@(no spam)enviropacific.com.au Tel 02 4342 0201

Brisbane Water Aqualung Club Ltd or BWAC is one of the oldest continuously running SCUBA clubs in Australia. Formed in 1959 it's still going strong and has an active membership committed to promoting safe, affordable recreational SCUBA diving.
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Brisbane Water itself is nowhere near the city of Brisbane... or Queensland for that matter. It is an estuary situated about 50 Km north of Sydney - New South Wales in a region known as the NSW Central Coast and is named after colonial governor Thomas Brisbane. Just to confuse the issue further, there is also a Central Coast in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.
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BWAC has a committee and directors. There are no paid staff and positions are filled by volunteers. The club is not affiliated with any commercial enterprise.

Club meetings are held at 730 PM every 2nd Thursday of the month usually at a club member’s house ( as notified in the magazine–or ring to confirm )The club magazine "Demand Valve Vibes" is published monthly and posted or emailed to financial members.
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The club's main activity is surprisingly enough...SCUBA diving and BWAC aims to ensure that members are able to participate in this exciting sport, weather and sea conditions permitting. Club members are also actively involved in environmental and community activities which directly or otherwise affect the sport of SCUBA diving and the marine environment. BWAC members are committed to the conservation of wrecks and other vulnerable dive sites. BWAC is proud to be a member of SCAN the Scuba Clubs Association of NSW .and CCARP the central Coast Artificial Reef Project. (The HMAS Adelaide)

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Click to visit the CCARP website

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Club Rules & Constitution BWAC is at the present time incorporated under the Dept of Fair Trading.
Versions of the BWAC Constitution and Club rules which are compliant with the DFT are available here for downloading.

BWAC CONSTITUTION CLUB RULES BWAC MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

The Administrative Appeal Tribunal (AAT), called a last minute halt to the scuttle after an injunction by he No ships group from Avoca had managed to gain the ear of the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) with little or no evidence.

A hearing will be held by the AAT on the 5^th ,6^th and 7^th of May , with the decision sometime after that.

We trust sense will prevail and the protest groups will recognise that the clean-up work has been done professionally and that their fears for the surf and beach at Avoca are unfounded.

We at BWAC implore you to e-mail Minister Kelly to show your support for the Adelaide being scuttled off Terrigal/Avoca in the planned site asap. Minister Kelly would have been bombarded by e-mails from the No-ships Group. Now WE MUST DO THE SAME!

The e-mail address to send your supportive comments to is planning@lpma.nsw.gov.au

Put in the title of the e-mail something like - Support for the Adelaide project

THANKS in advance!

Our marine environment is under many genuine threats from the land and from the coal, fishing and other industries. BWAC have even tried in our small way to clean up marine environment and have seen first hand the devastation pollution can bring. A group like the EDO that falsely cries wolf, risks loosing credibility and the support of a community it should be supporting, not alienating.

Let’s clean the mud off quickly and get active in letting others know the pessimists are wrong.

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