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00:00Beneath the Bay has just won New Tourism Business. I hear someone got a little bit emotional.

00:05Just a tad. I clearly didn't prepare anything. Being a brand new business, I did not think we'd be in the running for the gold.

00:12So, absolutely stoked.

00:14Very happy.

00:15Yeah.

00:16Tell me, what is Beneath the Bay?

00:18Beneath the Bay is a scuba diving business in Batemans Bay. We're a dive charter boat.

00:25We also do scuba diving open water courses, so we teach people to scuba dive.

00:30And, yeah, we have lots of beautiful dive sites to explore.

00:35I actually meant, what is actually Beneath the Bay?

00:38Oh, what is under there? Oh, what is under there? There you go, Mick, you know what I mean.

00:41So, we've got lots of different sites. So, we've got Gray Nurse Colony.

00:46Yeah, Gray Nurse Sharks, for those that don't know. It's not just Gray Nurses. We do Gray Nurse Sharks.

00:51And we've got a lot of swim-throughs, tunnels, and a lot of soft corals.

00:57Lots of colour. You'd be very surprised what you see in Batemans Bay. You'd have to come and explore.

01:03What made you think about opening up a business, this type of business there?

01:07Oh, there was just, Mick's had a scuba tank on his back since he was eight years old.

01:13So, he's been diving. We're both Batemans Bay locals, and we know how beautiful it is out there.

01:17And there just hasn't been a dive boat.

01:20There hasn't been a dive charter company there for three or four years now.

01:24Yeah. It's not fair that we were keeping it all to ourselves. We wanted to share the beauty Beneath the Bay.

01:31And having won the award, what do you think this will now do for the business?

01:35A lot more charters. Hopefully.

01:38Yeah, bring it on. We're so excited to be able to share Beneath the Bay's dive sites with everyone.

01:47We're really excited to be able to share that with everyone, because they're missing out. Completely.

01:52What a great first year. Well done.

01:54Thank you so much.

01:55Cheers.