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Two marine scientists share true stories of tragedy and triumph in the great outdoors.

03/06/2024

Wouldn’t mind landing in either of these spots…or would you? Where are we going on next weeks episode of ?

30/05/2024

This week on we cover the on this weeks episode of .

1-3) Catalina island fox
4-5) babies!
6) the foxes range

28/05/2024

This week we travel to the beautiful to uncover the story of the lone woman of San Nicolas island.

1. A painting of the lone woman and her cormorant feather dress
2. Scott O’Dells Island of the Blue Dolphins, the story inspired by the lone woman
3. Map of the Channel Islands and
4. The beauty of the islands
5. Thought to be the only picture ever taken of the lone woman
6&7. What is thought to be the lone woman’s cave, her dwelling on the island.

20/05/2024

Well after three weeks of moving cross country I’m back in a new job and I have internet. Thanks to for holding down the fort in my absence. We just recorded an episode this weekend-where are we going next?

22/04/2024

We are going back to caves next week but telling a very different story than our usual cave adventure. Where are we going next?

17/04/2024

This week we obviously had to talk about the Alaskan brown bear, or grizzly bear for

1) Grizzlies at the salmon run at 📍
2) range of brown bears worldwide
3) ranges of brown bear subspecies in Alaska
4) bear catching salmon, the main source of protein before hibernation
5) mom and cubs
6) the roster
7) winner grazer
8-10) former fat bear week participants

16/04/2024

This week we talk about some problematic conservation efforts that ended in horrific tragedy with the story of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell

1. Timothy and one of his beloved bears
2. Bears at 📍
3. Katmai National Park
4&5. Timothy Treadwell
6. Last picture of Timothy and Amie Huguenard
7. Thought to be last footage of Amie
8. The ruined tent after the attack

09/04/2024

We are going to have some expansive views for our next episode…where are we going next?

05/04/2024

On this weeks we talk about ‘s native !

1. Arizona’s state fish, the Apache trout!
2-4. Apache trout in native environment
5. Native and non native Arizona trout species
6. A juvenile Apache trout
7. Range of Apache and gila trout
8. Native ranges of southwestern trout

02/04/2024

This week we talk about the tragedy of the Yarnell Hill Fire in and the Granite Mountain Hotshot team that made the ultimate sacrifice.

1. The Granite Mountain Hotshot Team
2-4. Shots of the fire
5. The Granite Mountain team watching the fire progress from the ridgeline
6. An example of a fire shelter
7. Map of fire progression
8. Fire risk in the United States

28/03/2024

So I’m late on this…but check out our corner on last weeks episode on the , a North Sea native. Did you know that they turn into bananas when they are happy?

1) mama harbor seal and baby
2) a “bob” of harbor seals
3) the classic banana pose
4) ranges of the four subspecies
5&6) lil pups
7) the fattest boi

19/03/2024

This week we explore the past with two stories of our prehistoric ancestors

1) Remnants of the sunken world of doggerland
2) Map of Doggerland
3) what Doggerland might have looked like
4) the storegga landslide
5) Art, on an auroch bone, dredged up from the sea
6) entrance to rising star cave
7) map of rising star cave
8) one of the many squeezes in the cave
9) Homo naledi
10) the markings in the Dinaledi chamber

13/03/2024

What do these two places have in common? Where are we going next? Find out next week on Monday 3/18.

09/03/2024

This week we discuss the tragic and terrifying disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan in the

1. Tom and Eileen during their time with the Peace Corps
2. The land down under
3. The Great Barrier Reef
4. Tom and Eileen shortly before their disappearance
5. Agincourt Reef
6. The Outer Edge dive charter
7. Eileen’s life jacket, recovered later

27/02/2024

Hey guess what…we’re coming back next week posting new content on 3/4! Join us as we talk about another thing that will give you nightmares…where are we going this time?

26/02/2024

Would you do a mars simulation? Find out what it takes on this weeks episode of rewind with

1) hi seas mars EVA and the habitat on the big island
2) the HI SEAS mars habitat
3) the entire interior of the hab
4) a diagram of the habitat layout
5) several months worth of supplies
6) the isolation of the habitat on Mauna Loa
7) exploring nearby lava caves during an EVA
8) leaving the habitat at the end of a mission
9) the mission IV crew

20/02/2024

Dive deep with us on the latest episode of rewind where we revisit the Plura cave disaster.

1) diving in plura cave
2) Plurdalen valley
3) the entrance to Plura
4) cutting the ice to access the entrance
5) map of the cave system and the accidents
6) Vesa Rantanen
7) Sami Paakkarinen
8) Patrik Gronqvist

13/02/2024

This week on rewind, we revisit the mystery of climbers George Mallory and Sandy Irving on the summit of

1. Sandy Irving and George Mallory
2. Comparing 1924 gear to 2019 gear
3. Gearing up for the summit
4. The route it was thought that they took with gear found in later years
5. Location of George Mallory’s body
6. Gear found with Mallory
8-10. George Mallory’s body

08/02/2024

On this episode of rewind we revisit the great storm of 1900 in which devastated city with over 8000 deaths and destruction

1) an illustration of the storm surge
2) the debris wall in front of the moody mansion
3) path of the hurricane
4&5) more of the destruction
6) 1900 and modern day
7) map of destruction. Everything outside of the line was completely gone

31/01/2024

Listen to our next episode of rewind with part two of and the endurance expedition.

1. Shackleton and crew leaving for on the James Caird lifeboat
2. Leaving elephant island
3. Shelter on elephant island
4. Map of the journey
5. Map of elephant island
6. South Georgia island
7. Stromness whaling station on South Georgia
8. The men on elephant island are rescued
9. The men after the rescue
10. The wreck of the endurance

22/01/2024

We are switching it up with rewind episodes on main feed while we are on break…and baby, the first episode is practically lore at this point.

1) yeah that’s right it’s Ernest Shackleton and the endurance.
2) the team
3) the disaster
4) Antarctic invertebrates under the ice
5) frank hurleys famous night photo of the endurance
6) the endurance trapped in sea ice
7) playing soccer
8) sledging with the lifeboats
9) Frank Wild with the wreck of the endurance
10) Shackleton and photographer frank hurley at ocean camp

18/01/2024

Did you know that has a group of Darwin-esque finches too? Meet the honeycreeper on the latest episode of for

1) The ‘I’iwi, the most well known
2) the Kauai amakihi
3) the Akohekohe
4) just some of the many extant species of Hawaiian honeycreeper living today
5) a look at the number of living and extinct species of honeycreeper
6) the current and historic range of the ‘i’iwi

17/01/2024

Join us this week to talk about two surfing legends.

1)
2) duke winning Olympic gold
3) duke and his famous long boards
4) corona Del Mar surf club
5) dukes memorial in
6)
7) Eddie surfing
8) the
9) the hokule’a capsized in 1978
10) map of the disaster

09/01/2024

It’s time for vacation already, right? What do these two places have in common? Find out next week on 1/15 on

05/01/2024

This week’s dives into the talented or Capra ibex. Did you know they like to climb the side of dams to lick minerals off the walls? Now you do.

1&2) Alpine Ibex
3) sexual dimorphism
4) range
5&6) babies
7&8) dam climbing ibexes

04/01/2024

This week we talk about the 1936 Eiger tragedy on

1. Toni Kurz
2. Diagram of the Eiger
3. Hotel in front of the Eiger
4. The Hinterstroisser traverse
5. Top: Edi Rainer and W***y Angerer Bottom: Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser
6&7. The stollenloch
9. The body of Toni Kurz

21/11/2023

This week we are finally covering the big one, the titanic. Welcome.

1) the classic artist rendering of the sinking
2) the ship heading out in its maiden voyage
3) map of the trip
4) diagram of the sinking
5) the iceberg that may have sunk the ship
6) an example of a collapsible lifeboat and 7) a wooden lifeboat with survivors
8) the wreck (the bow)
9&10) the Greenland shark

19/09/2023

Next week we are going to a famous national park…but which one? Find out on 9/25 on the next episode of

19/08/2023

This week we cover the disappearance of
1&2. Amelia
3. The Lockheed Electra
4. Map of the world circumnavigation
5. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan
6. Aircraft carrier Lexington that joined the search
7. Nikumororo Atoll
8. Coconut crab vs trash can

31/07/2023

This episode we are going way up north to cover a story about a man and his dog with Togo and Leonhard Seppala and the 1925 serum run to Nome
1. The team (Togo on left)
2. Seppala and Togo
3. Togo
4. Seppala’s sled
5. The serum run
6. Balto
7. 1925 Nome
8. Sockeye Salmon

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