To Dive For Podcast

21/12/2024

This week we jump into more physical oceanography with modeller and PhD student Douchan Hanuise from UC Louvain in Belgium and James Cook University in Australia. Douchan uses computers to help us understand how seagrass is making its way around the Great Barrier Reef! This important work lays the groundwork for understanding this important ecosystem and informs restoration efforts!🌾

1. sampling some seagrass in Australia!
2-3. Snorkeling with a green sea turtle🐢
4. Douchan presenting his research

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29/11/2024

New episode out!!!💙This week we have special guest Toni Lohroff, the Director of Education for the non-profit International SeaKeepers Society. It was so hard to choose what photos of Toni’s to share because she helps create such amazing learning environments and experiences for both students and educators!

Want to get involved, know a student who should join Junior SeaKeepers, or want to teach kids about ocean conservation? Head over to seakeepers.org for educational resources and more information!🌊

This episode is sponsored by Waterlust! To win a $50 Waterlust gift card, comment the answer to the trivia question found in this episode. You can also comment on our Instagram, Facebook, or email us!

Photos 4,5,7, and 10 by 📸

28/10/2024

This week's Fish Tales episode was To Dive For! Today's stories include shark-nados, dusk diving, pregnant stingrays, dolphins, frogfish, real life rescues, and freshwater reefs! Need we say more? This episode is To Dive For!

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Photos/videos
1) Dana's Octopus
2) Dana on a thingy recovering tanks lights on the GBR
3) An incredible video of humpback whales singing while babies wiggle inside a pregnant stingray! Thanks .dragon for the footage!

4-5) Pictures of Shark-nado dives!
6-7) Videos of dolphins hanging out with on her fun Dive at work in Turks and Caicos
8) The microbialite reefs in upstate New York lake that Sydney swam in

Thank you all for the awesome stories and footage! Can't wait to see the winner of this week's gift card!

11/10/2024

This week catch up with Haley and Sydney as they chat with Grace Keast, a citizen scientist and sea slug aficionado. Grace has worked with a number of different conservation organizations over the years and over time has fallen in love with the sea slug, an unsuspecting but magnificent creature! Her admiration of these animals has led her to establish the Western Australia branch of the Sea Slug Census where once a year she selects and trains volunteers, and creates events to survey the sea slug species of Western Australia.

Photos:
1) Grace in her natural Habitat
2) Sea Slug Census rockpooling activity
3-6) Sea Slugs of Western Australia

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28/09/2024

Tune in this week to listen to the incredible Jill Heinerth speak on her life. From cave diving, to ice diving, to authorship, Jill really has done it all. Her work in Tec diving has helped to lay the groundwork for cave mapping expeditions, increased safety practices in repeated-diving operations, and has helped to de-stigmatize dive injuries. Listen to her incredible stories this week and comment the answer to our a weekly trivia for a chance to win a $50 from our sponsors Waterlust!

Photos:
1) Jill Heinerth
2) Jill with dive and camera gear headed to a remote location via plane
3) Hardhat diving on a Rebreather
4-6) Cave diving!

31/08/2024

Tune in to To Dive For this week anywhere you get podcasts to hear from Miriam Pierotti, a PhD student in New Zealand who studies Black Corals. These strange corals don't require light, but rather live in dark cold waters (usually very deep beneath the surface). New Zealand is one of the few places you can find these corals shallow enough to access easily at recreational depths! Learn more about these awesome animals and the beautiful place they call home from their biggest fan, Miriam, this week!

Photos
1-2: Miriam Diving
3: Black coral with their symbiotic snake star
4: Fjiordlands, NZ
5: Miriam working in the molecular lab to learn about Black Corals

19/06/2024

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15/03/2024

This week's episode takes us to Saba, a small island in the Caribbean that makes up for what it lacks in land mass with abundant biodiversity both above and below the water. This beach-less island turns out to be an unexpected crown-jewel of the Caribbean! This is what Lynn Costenaro fell in love with when she moved to the island to work at and eventually become the owner of Sea Saba. Since 2003, she has incorporated annual eco-programming in her dive shop's operations, and eventually, this became so successful that these programs became their own standalone organization known as Sea and Learn Saba. Lynn and her team have spent the past several years investing in this initiative, which helps to educate visitors and conserve the nature and culture of Saba along with sister islands! Tune in this week to learn all about the amazing work this organization is doing in the Eastern Caribbean.

Head over to https://www.seaandlearn.org/ to learn more about Lynn and her team's work!

Photos

1) Lynn Costenaro, the founder of Sea and Learn Saba ( )
2) Coral nursery work
3-4) Wreck diving
5) First dives on a British Virgin Islands liveaboard
6) Lynn and her partner in crime John shore diving Saba
7) Lynn at a dive trade show
8) Diver magazine ( ) cover feature!
9) Sea Saba owners circa 1990

07/03/2024

What is aquaculture? Can aquaculture be sustainable? Why do we need aquaculture? Find out the answers to these questions and more this week as we interview Ethan, a marine scientist and educator within the Florida Department of Agriculture! Ethan also shares with us his amazing experience of living on a sailboat for the summer, sailing around the Caribbean, diving, and teaching kids about marine life. We promise this episode will keep you HOOKED!

Pictures:
1) Ethan fishing from the boat he worked on this summer
2-4) scuba and free diving fun in the Eastern Caribbean
5) Nap Time
6) some of the incredible views of the shoreline
7-8) Ethan's masters thesis research studying aquaculture

23/02/2024

ONE YEAR OF BLOWING BUBBLES WITH YOU!

Help Haley and Sydney to celebrate the podcast's one year anniversary with their upcoming fishtales Episode! There will be a bonus Q&A session at the end to celebrate! Send in your Fish Tales via audio file or typed document now through the link in our bio. AND send us questions to answer this episode either through Instagram, email, or the Google for in our bio.

We can't wait to hear from you all soon!

22/02/2024

We FINALLY got the chance to chat with a dive doctor! Lucia takes us through her journey of becoming not only a dive doctor, but an infectious disease doctor, intensive care doctor, and advocate for drowning prevention. During her career, Lucia has worked with the DAN hotline, the navy, commercial divers on oil rigs, and recreational divers!

Pictures:
1) Dr. Lucia in front of a flag
2-3) AI recreations of an important life-saving skill using a water bottle to keep the airways elevated out of the water (www.sobrasa.org)
4) Lucia presenting at a conference regarding dive medicine
5-6) Dr. Lucia and her team operating a hyperbaric chamber
7-10) Diving diving diving! Including Tec diving and seeing her favorite animal, whale sharks!

18/02/2024

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16/02/2024

Have you ever dreamt of solving crimes UNDERWATER!? This week, learn all about how Kelsey helps to do just that! She talks about the necessary training (and the extra training she’s glad she had), her fears that ended up not coming true, and some of her most epic dive stories.

1. The dive team!
2. Kelsey after a dive🤿
3-6. The process of finding a car underwater with sonar and then retrieving it!🚗

14/02/2024

Happy Valentines Day to all the divers out there. Send one of our SCUBA valentines to your buddy to let them know how much they mean to you!

08/02/2024

Meet this week's podcast guest, Lenny! Talk about superwoman! Lenny came to diving later in life, and quickly dove all in, becoming a Surface Supply commercial diver! Tune in to learn what it's like to be in low vis, high current, and using power tools all-the-while!

Pictures

1) Lenny geared up to go diving in her custom dry suit
2) Working on a bulkhead underwater
3) Climbing the ladder into her dive while holding her umbilical
4) Posing underwater on one of her dives
5) The view from the topside of the video camera monitoring Lenny's dive

02/02/2024

Fish Tales Episode 9: Dive Incident with Haley

This week we were inspired by recent conversations in the community to share a story a little closer to home. This winter, despite diving a conservative profile that she'd conducted often before, Haley got a mild case of DCS. This resulted in a decompression chamber ride and leaving the Cayman Islands a few days early. Tune in to hear all about it as we try to make this topic less taboo so that we can ALL share more and as a result, make this community safer for everyone!

Pictures:
1) Haley in the clinic on Little Cayman getting O2 and IV fluids
2)"skin bends" DCS type 1 on haley's back
3) a quick helicopter flight to the big island
4-5) a before (bent) and after (treated) picture of my leg for comparison!

18/01/2024

We are beyond excited to share our interview with Ned and Anna Deloach this week! On this episode, you’ll hear from the people who wrote the book on Fish ID... literally! We can distinctly remember being gifted their books at the start of our science careers which makes this episode even more special!

Ned and Anna Deloach are known around the world for their work in fish, fish behavior, invertebrate, and coral identification, as well as their extensive field guides in these topics. They helped to found and currently are on the board of directors for REEF, the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, where they have helped to collect thousands of datapoints regarding fish population over time. Over more than three decades of work finding, identifying, and documenting organisms around the world, this dynamic duo has even had fish named after them!

Don’t forget to follow their journey on Instagram at and visit blennywatcher.com to read more about their adventures!

1. Anna and Ned!
2. Blackfin Coralgoby, Paragobiodon lacunicolus
3. Reef Fish Behavior
4. A cuttlefish touching Anna’s hand!
5. Blackwater diving
6. Adelotremus deloachi - new to science and named for Ned
7. Golden basslet from Cuba
8. Larval spotfin flounder
9. Pair of Rosy Razorfish, Xyrichtys martinicensis, releasing gametes
10. Yellowhead jawfish courting

11/01/2024

🤿 Meet Gabe, a dive photographer in southeast Florida who specializes in finding teeny tiny treasures in unexpected places!

🐌 This week's episode is all about nudibranchs, an organism named for its funny looking external gills. These are some of the most colorful slug-like-creatures you've ever seen!

📌 Learn about the crazy ways they protect their eggs from Predators

🚗 Hear about a new kind of dive boat: your car!

🍟 And get ready for a hot take on the best post-dive snack!

Thanks for an awesome interview and even better pictures!

Pictures:
1) Gabe diving a wreck
2) Spawning Acropora polyps
3) A lobster walk prior to a storm in South Florida
4) Mud Pit Costasiella
5) Flapping Dingbat
6) Felimare juliae on the blue sponges that Gabe loves to inspect
7) Favorites eating eggs with nematocysts

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