The best job in the world… A day in the life of a Liveaboard Dive Instructor For the past three years, Janine has worked full time in the Diving Industry, teaching PADI courses and spending three days per week at sea on one of Cairns premium learn to dive liveaboard vessels. In the following article, she shares, tongue in cheek, [...]

Cairns is, without doubt, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Any visitor, whether aware of this fact or not, will quickly work this out after just a short stroll through the streets of this tropical city. Booking agent after booking agent exhibits floor to ceiling brochures on reef day trips, liveaboard dive trips, introductory diving, snorkelling, Scubadoo, reef walking, [...]

Amongst novice divers, there is certainly a perception that diving on the Great Barrier Reef (“GBR”) is world class. Certainly ask any backpacker about their travel plans and diving on the GBR will no doubt feature heavily on their wish list. Amongst more experienced divers, opinions are certainly more mixed. The amount of times I have heard comments such as [...]