The Kedge Marine Surveying Team
Familiar people with safe hands looking after you and your assets as though they were our own. We are evolving but you can count on our people as you have done for many years…
OUR PEOPLE
Adam Brancher
Based in Hobart Tasmania covering all Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia Pacific area as required. Adam first got his sea-legs on Arbella his family’s 36’ wooden yawl based on the eastern seaboard of America. After life in the military and a variety of sea-going jobs around Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean, he attended university…
Peter Keyes
Senior Surveyor Peter Keyes joined us on 1 May 2017 on the day he left his role as GM Commercial Vessels at Marine and Safety Tasmania (MAST). Very well known locally and across Australia and internationally we are delighted that he has chosen to join Kedge. A shipwright by trade, and having served in Australia’s…
Chris Wells
Based in Hobart, Tasmania Chris is a Ship and Engineer Surveyor of more than 40 years experience both in Private Practice and as a Non Exclusive Surveyor to Lloyds Register, Germanischer Lloyd, American Bureau of Shipping and Bureau Veritas, as well as for the last 20 years as a Marine Surveyor for Marine and Safety…
Murray Isles
Based in Coffs Harbour, NSW AMSA Accredited Surveyor (ID 127717) of plans, stability and loadlines, Murray has been designing powered and sailing vessels in timber, metal, fibreglass, ferro-cement and polypropylene for over thirty years. Since 1990 Murray has lived and worked in Tasmania and has been extensively involved in all areas of the aquaculture industry…
Calvin Ewe
Calvin works remotely and looks after plan approvals and stability approvals. A valued and highly skilled team member.
Michael Hunn
Based in Hobart, Tasmania Mike has designed numerous craft and has a well deserved reputation as a practical hands-on Naval Architect. Mike is probably the most experienced naval architect in using the NSCV in Australia- probably because of the early adoption of it without alteration by Tasmania. A former MAST senior NA, his experience is…
Nirman Jayarathne
Nirman Jayarathne is an experienced naval architect and a Chartered Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the maritime industry since 2006. He is skilled in naval architecture, management of ship building projects, research, ship management, and university lecturing. He has finished his PhD at the Australian Maritime College. His research focussed on extracting…
Carl Jernert
On completion of a seven year engineering Cadetship and achieving the Class 1 Engineering Certificate in Denmark, Carl ventured out into various different engineering roles across the globe. This included a noteworthy summer onboard the world famous ‘Nella Dan’, visiting all of the Australian Antarctic bases and the east coast of Greenland. Carl moved into…
Peter Harris
Based in Devonport, North Tasmania When not working as a Marine Surveyor I work as a towage engineer based in Devonport. I started as an apprentice Fitter & Machinist at Garden Island Naval Dockyard, Sydney and studied marine engineering at night school. I then spent three years as a scientific/mechanical officer on the government research…
Tim Warren
Tim is one of Kedge’s newest Accredited Surveyors, alongside working for Kedge Tim runs his own marine consultancy/maintenance business. Based on the East Coast of Tasmania, Tim started his marine career in dredging before becoming a Deck Officer for Teekay Shipping. This work covered many Australian blue water vessels where the focus was primarily on…
Matthew Radford
Matt is a Marine Surveyor with Kedge Pty Ltd as well as running his own southern rock lobster fishing vessel in Tasmania. Starting out as an apprentice fitter and turner he then followed the family tradition and went to sea as a fisherman in 1999. In 2006 after running a vessel engaged in the Basslink cable…
David Peberdy
David started his association with the sea as a marine engineer cadet with the ANL in 1981 and, until recently, has followed a career as an engineer in the Australian shipping and oil and gas industries. Working on many international and coastal vessels, FPSOs and, most recently, oil rig supply and anchor handling vessels. With…
Sunny Azam
Based in Sydney NSW, Sunny is a licensed Chief Engineer and AMSA Accredited Marine Surveyor with sailing experience on vessels ranging from OSVs and tugs to some of the worlds largest container ships. Having spent more than a decade in maritime, Sunny has come to understand the driving forces of the industry. He believes that a good marine surveyor not only works towards ensuring…
Callum Thompson-Young
Callum is our full time naval architect. A passionate fisherman and mariner, he works on stability and structures and is in the final stages of becoming an AMSA accredited naval architect.
Astrid Wilson
I was approached to join Kedge Marine Surveyors as a Trainee Marine Surveyor and, of course, I jumped at the opportunity to work with the fresh local team. I grew up on the River Derwent sailing on the Lady Nelson and operating rescue boats for a local sailing club. This lead to me attending the Australian Maritime…
Bill La Vars
Based in Adelaide covering South Australia (Adelaide, River Murray, the South East and Port Lincoln) and the West Coast. I did my apprenticeship with Adelaide Steamship in their shipyard at Port Adelaide as marine fitter and turner before going away to sea as a marine engineer. Over the years sailing around the world on different…
Aaron McKibben
Aaron is an accredited marine electrical surveyor, qualified electrician, EHV linesman and also a small engine mechanic. With a background heavily entrenched in supply and generation industry, he has had experience in construction, maintenance and testing of all types of electrical installations, including ELV dc control circuits through to EHV ac primary installations – and…