This is a Council led event.

12/09/2025 - Clive James Library and Service Centre, Kogarah

NSW History Week’s theme for 2025 is Water Stories and you can join engaging local diver and marine biologist Mike Scotland as he enthusiastically shares his story of loving our waterways and marine life.
 
Experience a divers’ view of our unique marine life with professional photos from one of Australia’s most published underwater photographers and journalists and discover the incredible fish life of our area including Sea Stars, Cuttles, Sea Dragons, Sea Horses, Leatherjackets, Pygmy Pipe Horses, Red Fingered Anglerfish, and Sydney Sharks.
 
Mike started diving in 1976 and he’ll discuss his adventurous decades of underwater exploration, science, and the changes he’s seen over his career exploring our oceans.
 
About the Facilitator:
Mike Scotland is author of Diving With Sharks and Marine Biology in the Wild. He is a professional educator, a trained scientist and evolutionary biologist, and known for his many decades of knowledge of our marine ecosystem. He is also one of Australia’s most experienced scuba divers. Currently, he is editor and publisher of Australia’s longest running scuba diving online publication; Dive Log Australasia.
 
About the Research and Community History Team:
Georges River Libraries’ Research and Community History Team supports the preservation and promotion of the Georges River Council through the research and collection of local historical materials such as maps, photographs and newspapers to gain a deeper understanding of our history, culture, and community. 
 
About NSW History Week: 
The theme for History Week 2025 is Water Stories. Water is fundamental to life. It also underpins our histories.
 
From floods to droughts, from oceans to creeks, rivers and wetlands, our pasts are bound up with the ebbs and flows of water. History Week 2025 will engage with stories of how water was cherished, contained, diverted, contaminated, looked after and shared, or withheld.
 
History Week is the annual, state-wide celebration of History organised by the History Council of New South Wales. Initiated by the HCNSW in 1997, History Week is a fantastic opportunity to engage and educate the community about the vitality, diversity and meaning of History and its practice.

 

Friday 12 September 2025

 

Address

Clive James Kogarah Library and Service Centre.
Kogarah Town Square, Belgrave Street, Kogarah.
 

Time

6.00pm - 7.30pm.
 

Cost

Free.
 

Bookings

Bookings are essential. Please book via the book online button below.

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More Information

• For participants under the age of 16, parent and/or guardian contact details must be provided at the time of booking.

• If you arrive more than 10 minutes after the advertised start time and there are people in the standby queue, your ticket may be allocated to the standby queue.

• If you are unable to attend, please cancel your registration at least 3 hours prior to the event. As Library Programs have limited spaces, repeated failure to notify staff of cancellations may result in bookings being refused in the future.

• The library does not endorse or promote any products which may be used in the workshop.

Accessibility Information:
Georges River Libraries is committed to providing inclusive library services and programs. Please email library@georgesriver.nsw.gov.au or note down your requirements or support needs in your event registration.