Oceanic Victor

Oceanic Victor is an Australian privately owned company which runs marine tourism facilities on and adjacent to Granite Island, Encounter Bay, South Australia.

[4] Visitors have the opportunity to swim with and feed southern bluefin tuna, and observe other species via an underwater viewing deck and touch-tank aquaria.

"[7] The company's website describes its goals as providing "an opportunity to experience and understand our diverse marine environment" while "promoting South Australia’s strengths as a source of clean, green and sustainable quality seafood for the world".

A similar proposal was made in 2015 by another Port Lincoln tuna baron, Tony Santic, acting as a director of the newly formed company, Oceanic Victor Pty Ltd.

[12] During the planning and approval process, the applicant was also represented by Heather Montgomerie, a former State Government employee who held senior positions at Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) Aquaculture for over a decade.

Also representing the applicant was Hagen Stehr's daughter, Yasmin, who has previously worked for her family's commercial tuna and kingfish farming business, Clean Seas.

Her father Ron originally constructed the observation deck component of the Oceanic Victor attraction in 1989, after which it was used in waters near Port Lincoln to aid the early development of the tuna farming industry.

[18] On 17 December 2015, a meeting of South Australia's Development Assessment Commission received Michael Dyer, Yasmine Stehr, Heather Montgomerie and Donna Ferretti representing the applicant, Roscoe Shelton for DEWNR, Heidi Alleway and Luke Fraser for PIRSA and fifteen other individuals.

Some opponents raised concerns that the approval process seemed rushed and that the attraction might increase shark visitation to the area or adversely impact on little penguins which breed on the bay's rocky islands.

A group called the Friends of the Encounter Coast was formed in response to the Oceanic Victor proposal[28] and an appeal against the facility's approval was heard in the South Australian Environment, Resources and Development Court.