Maritime Union of Australia
Diving
While the multi-billion dollar offshore industry provides professional divers union coverage, top pay and safety conditions, onshore diving and recreational diving are another story. In the ocean depths men like Rob Harding (left) work amongst sharks every day. But for many it's not the finned variety that they need to look out for in this dark & dangerous world where some of the worst employers lurk. The MUA covers 100 professional divers working on construction sites on the shores of our capital cities, on the Great Barrier Reef dive tours and below offshore oil and gas facilities in the Timor Sea, Northwest Shelf and Bass Strait.
Current Campaign
TIME FOR A SEA CHANGE
Industry Press
- MUA Divers Newsletter January 2010 Size: mb Negotiations for a new Offshore Diving EBA have been ongoing since November.
- Indian Dive Tragedy December 2009 Size: mb All efforts to save an Indian diver failed when he got his leg stuck in a pipe while attempting to locate and repair a leak in a reservoir chamber at the Purulia Pumped Storage Project.
- H2Ops Divers' magazine available online Size: mb In line with our commitment to the MUA divers to improve communication with ADAS link here to view and subscribe to the latest UK based H2Ops Magazine E-Edition with the latest industry news.
EBA's & Awards
The Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) for offshore divers operating in Australian waters sets pay conditions for MUA air and bell divers and supervisors.
Companies
- Woodside Woodside is one of Australia’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas exploration and production company, employing MUA seafarers and divers off the Northwest Shelf of Western Australia and indirectly on the LNG trading vessels
Industry News & Events
Union Links
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Surface supply divers at work Two surface-supply divers at work inspecting/cleaning a mock-up of a subsea structure. Filmed at The Underwater Centre, Fort William, Scotland. -
Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme The Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) is a Commonwealth Government not-for-profit diver training and accreditation scheme developed under the auspices of the Petroleum Sub-Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Minerals and Energy Council (ANZMEC).
Iron Man
14 Feb 2010 Terry Tindale, veteran seafarer and union official recalls the hardship endured by Australian seafarers on board the BHP Iron Boats at a special function held to commemorate the once strong fleet of 53 ships in Port Kembla.