DIVE LOG DECEMBER 25 ISSUE 415

GET ON BOARD STEVE SINCLAIR’S BRILLIANT PROMOTION FOR SCUBA DIVING

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE 50 GREAT DIVES CHALLENGE YET? •TOTAL PRIZE POOL OVER $30,000 • You will also help the dive industry PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY DIVE LOG AUSTRALASIA •

50 GREAT DIVES

You will also help raise funds for the Australian Marine Conservation Society

The Great Australian Dive Challenge The 2025 Great Australian Dive Challenge, proudly presented by Spirit of Freedom, has now wrapped up and entrants shared in over 70 prizes worth over $30,000!The major prizes included: Two $2,750 Spirit of Freedom Three-night Cod Hole Liveaboard Expeditions, One $3,499 Apollo BCE Drysuit, Two $1,750 Scubabo Dive Victoria Port Phillip Heads Two-day Dive Packages, One $1,629Scubapro Pro 30 System, One $1.299 Cressi Aquawing Plus BCD, One $1,095 Scubapro Sidemount BCD courtesy of Perth Scuba One $1,014 Adrenalin Snorkel Package One $1,000 Sharkskin Australia voucher, and Two $750 Enth-Degree Womens Eminence 7mm wetsuit. Many more prizes, valued between $70 and $740, were also won by entrants!50 Great Dives would like to express their extreme gratitude and appreciation to all sponsors and dive businesses that supported the 2025 Challenge. Thank you so much! One of the goals of the Challenge is to get divers to travel and support dive operators other than their regular dive operator, and in the 2024/25 Challenge: 35 of the 50 Great Dives were dived, many multiple times, Five of the seven ex-warships were dived, many multiple times, 70% of the registered dives were done by divers who lived more than 250 km from the dive site, Over 90% of our survey respondents said the Challenge encouraged them to visit other dive sites, The 50 Great Dives web site had thousands of hits, Nearly $3,000 was raised the Australian Marine Conservation Society. 50 Great Dives is pleased to announce that there another Challenge, the 2026 Great Australian Dive Challenge, will run from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026.The theme for the 2026 Challenge is Wrecks & Awesome Animals and the updated website will have over 130 dive site pages:50 Great Wrecks, go to Wrecks 13 Great Animals, go to Animals 50 Great Dives, go to 50GreatDives 7 Great Former Warships, go to Ex-Warships 12 Great Snorkel Dives, go to SnorkelDives The Australian Marine Conservation Society is onboard again for 2026 and they will be receiving $10 per entrant (up from $5 in 2024/25) and 20% of all cash adver tising and sponsorship. Also onboard again for 2026 is Spirit of Freedom, DAN World, Apollo, Scubabo, TUSA, Global Ballooning, Scuba Diver Magazine and Dive Log, with many others in the final stages of negotiation. you are interested in supporting the Challenge either as a sponsor and Authorised Operator, please contact Steve Sinclair by phone (0418 5 999 53) or email (steve@50greatdives.com). ENTER FOR PRIZES

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DiveLogAustralasia #415 December ‘25

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