SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

2024 SYDNEY SHOW

BOOK SIGNING

Steve Backshall

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM - Saturday

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM - Sunday

Pre-Order book: Deep Ocean

POOL DEMONSTRATIONS

Saturday, 28 September

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Side Mount Demonstration and Q&A / Jim Sheward

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM - Mermaid Demonstration / Bonnie Harris

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM - Mermaid Demonstration / Bonnie Harris

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM - QYSEA Underwater Drone / Underwater Australasia

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Difference in diving Equipment Single Cylinder to Rebreather / Brian Harrison

Sunday, 29 September

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Freediving / Robin Treier

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM - Difference in diving Equipment Single Cylinder to Rebreather / Brian Harrison

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM - Side Mount Demonstration and Q&A / Jim Sheward

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM - Freediving / Robin Treier

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - QYSEA Underwater Drone / Underwater Australasia

MAIN STAGE

Saturday, 28 September

9:45 AM - 11:15 AM - Diving into the Darkness Screening

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Jill Heinerth / Canada’s longest underwater cave

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM - Dr Richard Harris / The lure of technical diving

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM - Steve Backshall / Learning to speak whale

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM - Pete Mesley / Remote location diving and liveaboard safety - what you need to know

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM - Liz Parkinson / Scuba and freediving skills in film industry

Sunday, 29 September

09:45 AM - 11:15 AM - Dr Richard Harris / Voodoo Gas 2.0 - hydrogen in deep diving

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Liz Parkinson / Scuba and freediving skills in the film industry

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM - Steve Backshall / Sharks: older than trees

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM - Pete Mesley / Truk Lagoon Wreck Baseline Project

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM - Panel session with all main stage speakers

ANZ | INSPIRATION STAGE

Saturday, 28 September

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - Master Reef Guides

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM - Roni Ben-Ahron / The incredible diversity of the Philippines

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM - Torrey Klett / Sea Shepherd / Protecting sharks in Australian waters

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM - Terry Cummins / Diving the Queensland Coast

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM - Nays Baghai / Behind the scenes of Diving into the Darkness

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM - Deborah Dickson-Smith

Sunday, 29 September

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM - Danny Charlton / Exploring Indonesia

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM - James Hunter / Finding Endeavour: Using archives and archaeology to identify an iconic shipwreck

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM - Holly Wakely / Engaging the next generation of divers

1:05 PM - 3:00 PM - Matias Nochetto (DAN) / Common Diving Injuries, Remote Diving Accidents, DAN Hotline

TECH STAGE

Saturday, 28 September

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - John Kendall / Archaeology in the dark

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM - Mike Mason / High-flying ideas for divers

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM - John Garvin / Avatar: Engineering Pandora’s Ocean

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM - Yana Stashkevich / Vickers Wellington Project: The hidden gem of the Aegean depths

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM - David Strike / Mixing it up: The world’s deepest dive

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM - Kerrie Burow / Cave-diving photography across the Continents: My first two and a half years – what I wish I knew from the beginning

Sunday, 29 September

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - Matt Carter / Ghost wrecks of the blue Pacific

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM - David Strike / Cautionary tales for techies: diving mishaps and misdemeanours

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM - Jill Heinerth / The discovery of Shackleton’s ship Quest

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM - Richard Taylor / Is there still a case for Open Circuit in Technical Diving?

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM - John Kendall / Overview of the Halcyon Symbios

PHOTO STAGE

Saturday, 28 September

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM - Nigel Marsh / Unique Aussie Marine Life

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Nicolas Remy / Underwater club: Which lenses for which underwater photos

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM - Mike Bartick

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM - Brett Lobwein / Underwater photography hints and advice

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM - Underwater Awards Australasia 2024 results

Sunday, 29 September

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM - Don Silcock / Big animal photography

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Matty Smith

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM - Mike Scotland / Marine biology in the wild

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM - Craig Parry

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM - Talia Greis / Abstract underwater photography