What are the legal requirements in order to be able to SCUBA dive in Australia?
Are there Legislative requirements or Regulations that state that you
must have certain qualifications to dive or re-charge tanks etc?

Hi, 

According to the WikiTravel site (
http://wikitravel.org/en/Scuba_diving_in_Australia ) you must be
certified ; PADI, or SSI being the most common. To take a course that
will certify you, you are also required to take a medical exam to
comply with Australian Standard 4005.1-2000 . The full publication of
diving requirements can be found as a PDF document at :
http://www.dir.qld.gov.au/pdf/whs/divingcompressed_code2005.pdf

Other links:
Queensland Government -- Recreational Diving
http://www.dir.qld.gov.au/workplace/subjects/diving/recreational/techdiving/index.htm

http://www.dir.qld.gov.au/workplace/subjects/diving/recreational/

thanks,

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by tannyt-ga on 19 May 2006 19:27 PDT

Gudday, Thanks for that but did you find anything for NSW Australia?
Rated tops!

Many people get their scuba diving licence/certification in S.E.Asia
before arriving in Australia. It is ofter cheaper this way and can
break up the long travel to get to OZ.
The most popular dive traing destination is the island of Koh Tao in
thailand 1.5 hours from Koh Samui see here for more info:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Koh_Tao

Rather than go backand forth each day just to go diving many people
book a couple of days from Samui to stay on Koh Tao and spend more
time diving and less travelling see: EASY DIVERS
http://www.kohtaoeasydivers.com/