Raymon Busby Awarded Maurie Vierow Award of Excellence

Ray started his policing career in 1989, entering the diving pathway in 1992 with the NSW Police Dive Unit. In 1998 he commenced instructing at the unit and for the past 27 years has been involved, in some capacity, in every NSW Police Dive course. In 2018 he became the Officer In Charge (Diving Coordinator) of the unit, which he remains to his day.

Highly respected by his peers, Ray has been integral in training hundreds of police divers across most states of Australia over the past 27 years. He is a mentor across Australia & NZ and has a passion for teaching and developing police divers.

Ray remains an operational police supervisor and diver within NSW Police, taking a lead role in complex and protracted police operations and searches across the state of NSW. Over the course of his career, he has played an integral role in providing both results and closure to those involved in drowning and crimes across NSW.

Ray also sits as the chair to the Australian & New Zealand Divers Working Group. In this capacity Ray works alongside state and territory diving heads from across Australia and NZ, in conjunction with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA). He is also the NSW representative on the SF/17 diving committee board, under Standards Australia.

For those who know Ray, he remains committed to providing the best service possible to everyone he encounters. He is both professional with an intrinsic ability to relate to a wide audience, and able to maintain a sense of humour and keep it real.

The Maurie Vierow Award of Excellence is an annual award presented by ADAS to a trainer who has shown exceptional dedication to the support and training of people in the hyperbaric industry in a way that encourages high levels of safety, cooperation and skill.