Esperance Star
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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
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.
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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Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
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
AHS Centaur
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943...
was off Cape Moreton near Brisbane.
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.
External links
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- Two-part article by Trevor Jackson on diving the assumed wreck of AHS Centaur
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