Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group

04/08/2026

SURG divers Tom, James, Jorgie and Matt revisited the RSL Club site in the Nambucca River on Saturday 1st August for another marine debris clean up dive. Thanks to Katy for her surface support.

22/07/2026

SURG divers Tom, James and Skye cleaned up so much material at the Nambucca V-wall site Saturday 18th July we had to back it up with new members Jorgie and Matt joining James in the water Sunday 19th July for another marine debris dive. Thanks to Mel, Jorgie and Matt for their shore support.

14/06/2026

Saturday 6th June our SURG divers undertook a marine debris dive in the Nambucca River at the boat ramp in front of the RSL Club with predominately lost fishing tackle found. The divers were Katy, Lilly, Luke and Skye with Zak and Tom as surface support.

31/05/2026

What a fantastic turnout today for shore based clean-up with Unlimited - Coffs Harbour Chapter and Jetty Dive. Thank you to all who came along and gave their time - look at the amount of waste we prevented from ending up in our ocean!

We plan to keep these going with another clean up later in the year.

For more information about SURG and how to join us visit our website https://www.surg.org.au

30/05/2026

UPDATE: All underwater activity for tomorrow's marine debris cleanup has been cancelled due to poor ocean conditions.

Land-based cleanup activity will still be going ahead - meet at Jetty Dive at 9am.

Image credit: Photo by Hans on Unsplash

15/05/2026

SURG are proud to be joining with Ozfish and Jetty Dive to hold a marine debris clean-up day around Coffs Jetty and Muttonbird Island Sunday 31st May.

Jetty Dive are offering free tank hire and $60 gear hire for the day for divers - if you are interesting in joining in for diving, shore support or land-based clean up please contact Jetty Dive to register - it will be great to have many hands involved to clean up our local marine area.

Image credit: Melissa Tan

17/03/2026

Our March business meeting takes place tonight, via Zoom, from 7 pm. All welcome.

Topic: SURG March Business meeting

Time: Mar 18, 2026 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86740130555?pwd=gOo0htO6DNuHrxZ79NIrXog6bVbtwZ.1



Meeting ID: 867 4013 0555

Passcode: 191026

17/03/2026

25/02/2026

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Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census

15/01/2026

It's Sea Slug Census time again!! Get out there! Starts today, Friday 16th January 2026