Esperance Star

Esperance Star is a dive liveaboard ship operating out of Brisbane, Australia. 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 metre ship and her design is based around Tasmanian crayfishing vessels. She is currently undergoing a major refit before being returned to service later in 2009.

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ A Grave Mistake, 60 Minutes, Nine Network, Richard Carleton, June 2003

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