Are you a diver with at least 50 logged dives? Do you love 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
• Gather information systematically to better understand the changing condition of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural heritage
• 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 is sponsored by an ACT National Science Week Grant, is conducted over two days (10-11 August 2024) and is free to participants.

A maximum of six people can participate in the second day diving activity.

This event is for certified divers with over 50 logged dives, aged 18 and older.