Kevin Casey was born and grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and worked as a civil engineering draftsman for the Victorian Railways. With a deep desire to travel from a young age, he fulfilled that dream when in 1973 he left Australia to see the world. He sailed in a passenger ship across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans via the Panama Canal, eventually anchoring off Stokes Bay for 24 hours before docking in Southampton. Little did he know then that he would one day make his home on the coast he had first viewed.
In 1975, Kevin began his career in the offshore oil industry for a diving company operating out of Aberdeen, Scotland, as a professional diver and retired in 2016. His diving career took him all over the world and to many locations not found in tourist brochures.
He met his wife Hazel in Aberdeen, and they married in 1983. They have two daughters and five granddaughters.
History and heritage have always been a passion of his. Kevin has been a member of the Friends of Stokes Bay committee for over 30 years and is now Chair of the Society. He has been a member of the Gosport Society committee for over 10 years. He joined the Historical Diving Society in 1991, became a trustee, and their Museum Director in 2008, and in 2011, they opened the Diving Museum in No2 Battery on Stokes Bay. He now leads on all their grant fundraising. Kevin sits on the Advisory Panel for the South East Museums Development and the steering committee for the Hampshire Military Museums Network. He uses these platforms to promote the rich heritage that Gosport has to offer.
Kevin was elected Councillor for Alverstoke Ward in 2018, an area he feels privileged to live in, and sees it as a natural progression in his desire to be involved in and help his local community.
