Engineering:Esperance Star
The Esperance Star was built new for Jim Casey of Dover Tasmania. Roy Jaques purchased the vessel and operated tours from the then new Hobart Casino to New Norfolk, and Cadburys. Roy then took the vessel to Cairns to operate as a mother ship for the Marlin boats and after several months it was used for Scuba diving. it was sold and the new owner took it to brisbane Then Roy Jaques purchased one of the world's most impressive dive boats called the Nimrod 3 and chartered it out to Down Under Dive Cairns in 1989-90 it is now in the Solomon Islands.Roy Jaques then opened the world's first Spy Museum in Herberton Qld. and it still operates to-day as of 18/07/2018.
Esperance Star was a dive liveaboard ship operating out of Brisbane, Australia, and skippered by Captain Trevor Jackson. Built in Esperance Bay in Tasmania in 1973, she was one of the first liveaboard dive boats to operate from Cairns in Qld. In later years she gained some notoriety throughout the country for having located more than a dozen previously unknown wrecks along the coast of southern Queensland[1] and being the dive platform used for what became known as the "Centaur Dive" on 14 May 2002. The dive helped disprove the theory that the AHS Centaur was off Cape Moreton near Brisbane.[2]
The Esperance Star is a steel 17 m (56 ft) ship and her design is based around Tasmanian crayfishing vessels. She underwent a major refit in 2009.
References
- ↑ Towsend, Ian (23 November 2001). "Dive boat finds wheelhouse of Dutch ship". PM (ABC's Radio Current Affairs department). http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s424541.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ↑ A Grave Mistake, 60 Minutes, Nine Network, Richard Carleton, June 2003
- Books
- Jackson, Trevor (2007). Wreck diving in Southern Queensland. Brisbane, QLD: Lulu.
External links
- Two-part article by Trevor Jackson on diving the assumed wreck of AHS Centaur
- Jackson, T. "Learning to Climb Trees - Part 1". Dive-Oz. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090519022856/http://www.diveoz.com.au/regular_articles/readit.asp?p=3&a=16. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
- Jackson, T. "Learning to Climb Trees - Part 2". Dive-Oz. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090519022902/http://www.diveoz.com.au/regular_articles/readit.asp?p=3&a=17. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
Other media
- "Transcript: A Grave Mistake". Ninemsn.com.au - 60 Minutes Archive. 2003. Archived from the original on 28 August 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060828010512/http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2003_05_18/story_838.asp. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
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