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Trevor Jackson [Diver]
Trevor Jackson is an Australian technical diver who gained notoriety in 2002 by staging the infamous "Centaur Dive", which eventually led to the gazetted position of the Hospital Ship AHS Centaur being questioned. Subsequent investigations by the media and the Royal Australian Navy eventually proved that the Centaur was not where it had been assumed. Jackson had doubted the accuracy of the governments original findings for some time before he and New Zealand diver, Dr Simon Mitchell., staged a world record scuba dive to investigate the site. The dive took place from the vessel Esperance Star on the 14th of May, 2002. The dive to 178 metres was the deepest dive to a wreck ever undertaken. Despite the lack of conclusive proof, Jackson remained adamant for several years that the wreck he had seen on the dive was too small to be the Centaur. He suspected that the wreck was a small freighter called the Kyogle, sunk in 1951 by the RAAF. In 2009 the Queensland Government approved funding for a search for the lost hospital ship, vindicating the divers long held beliefs