GIRT Scientific Divers training - Launceston, Tasmania

Name: GIRT Scientific Divers training - Launceston, Tasmania
Start: 2025-04-26T09:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-04-27T17:00:00+10:00
Location: Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

Schedule

Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sun, 27 Apr, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery | Launceston, TS

Calling everyone over 18 years of age with 50 logged dives who loves diving shipwrecks, sunken aircraft or other underwater cultural heritage! The citizen science programme Gathering Information via Recreational and Technical (GIRT) Scientific Divers is keen to have you as a member. GIRT is a no-impact, conservation focussed, public archaeology program that aims to:
• Enable divers to dive with a purpose;
• To gather information systematically to better understand the changing condition of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural heritage; and
• To raise understanding of the factors driving the preservation or deterioration of a site.
Once trained, GIRT members ‘adopt a site’ they are interested to monitor periodically using the GIRT Rapid or full monitoring survey methodology. This GIRT training, sponsored by Heritage Tasmania and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, is conducted over two days (26-27 April 2025) and is free to participants. A maximum of 12 people can participate in the second day diving activity.
For more information about GIRT and to register to join the training go to www.girtsd.org/ and click on the join page and or email [email protected]. This training will be also supported by the Tasmanian State Underwater Cultural Heritage Practitioner.
Individuals who wish to be involved in the second day diving activity, focussed on utilising the GIRT methodology on a submerged site and submitting a GIRT Rapid Survey report, will need to organise their own air tank requirements and equipment, confirming. More details about the diving arrangements will be forthcoming.

Training Schedule - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Day 1 - Classroom based activity for the day
When - Saturday 26th April
Where - 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Time - 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Day 2 - GIRT fieldwork experience - survey site targets - Esk or Eden Holme (TBC).
When - Sunday 27th April
Where - TBC
Time - 8.00 am - 5.00 pm
(Note a maximum of participants who can be included on day two diving is subject to revision based on boat availability).
This project is supported by the Heritage Tasmania and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.