Episode 157 Diving in the Farne Islands

Gemma and Ian attended The Go Diving Show 2024 that took place at the beginning of March.  It was a fantastic show with plenty of exhibitors, a selection of speakers and of course many many visitors. 

This podcast captures some short interviews from around the show and our round up of the weekend.

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Gemma and Ian visited DEEP and were hosted by Phil Short, Research Diving, Training Lead.  We were given a tour of the facility at Avonmouth and then over to the Campus at Tidenham.

DEEP is evolving how humans access, explore and inhabit underwater environments. Through flexible, modular and mobile subsea habitats that allow humans to live undersea up to 200m for up to 28 days, work-class submarines, and advanced human performance research, DEEP completely transforms what we are capable of underwater and how we conduct undersea science and research.

https://www.deep.com/

 

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Gemma and Ian chat to Dr. Joseph Dituri.  Dr. Jospeh Dituri lived undersea for 100 Days in a mission combining education, ocean conservation research, and the study of the physiological and psychological effects of compression on the human body.  

 

Commander Joseph Dituri enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1985. He served continuously on active service upon various ships and shore stations where he was involved in every aspect of diving and special operations work from saturation diving and deep submergence to submersible design and clearance diving. Now that he is retired from 28 years of active service to the United States, he is the president of the International Board of Undersea Medicine. He also volunteers his time as the CEO of the Association for Marine Exploration. He is an invited speaker on motivational, sea and space related topics.

 

Fuelled by his passion for exploration, discovery, adventure, and making the greatest possible positive contribution to the world, he is fighting for change in a big way and with great enthusiasm

 

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Gemma and Ian recently visited the team at DEEP.  Kirk Krack is the Human Diver Performance Lead.  This podcast conversation with Kirk was recorded back in 2020 and sets the scene showcasing Kirks diving experience.   More information and conversation will be out in future episodes about DEEP.

Gemma and Ian also talk about Dive Fitness, Ians Dry suit and upcoming dive trip to the M2 wreck and the UK diving show.

DEEP Campus is the new site previously know as NDAC so well know to many UK divers who used the inland site.  However, it as an exciting new purpose.  DEEP exists to radically advance how humankind can access, explore and inhabit underwater environments.

Through flexible, modular subsea habitats, work-class submarines, and advanced human performance research, DEEP completely transforms what we are capable of underwater – and will increase our understanding of life on this planet.

https://www.deep.com/

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Gemma and Ian recently visited the team at DEEP and Phil Short was our host for the day.   Phil is the Research, Diving and Training Lead at DEEP.  This podcast conversation with Phil was recorded back in 2020 and sets the scene showcasing Phils diving experience.   More information and conversation will be out in future episodes about DEEP.

DEEP Campus is the new site previously know as NDAC so well know to many UK divers who used the inland site.  However, it as an exciting new purpose.  DEEP exists to radically advance how humankind can access, explore and inhabit underwater environments.

Through flexible, modular subsea habitats, work-class submarines, and advanced human performance research, DEEP completely transforms what we are capable of underwater – and will increase our understanding of life on this planet.

https://www.deep.com/

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Gemma and Ian chat to Melanie and Kathleen who are the owners of Dive The Americas. A women-owned travel agency dedicated to customized dive vacations in Latin America. Melanie and Kath are passionate about diving and helping get more people underwater. They both live in Latin America and believe it's truly an undiscovered jewel for divers of all levels.

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https://www.instagram.com/divetheamericas/

 

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Beneath the aqua blue waters of the North Norfolk coastline is a hidden world of marine magic.Diver Chris Taylor has lived in Sheringham all his life and has snorkeled the offshore chalk reef since he was a teenager.

Recently, he started filming his trips. Chris Taylor was born and bred in Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast and absolutely loves this area.  He did a degree in Marine Biology, a spent year travelling and diving in Australia.

 

At 20 miles long and six miles wide, it is the largest chalk reef in Europe.  It's a 100 million years old and teeming with life - edible and velvet crabs, lobsters, starfish, anemones and jellyfish can all be seen easily.

 

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Laura Parke is an inspirational speaker dedicated to simplifying watermanship skills and fostering a deep connection with the ocean. With over 20 years’ experience and a catalogue of underwater images, she engages audiences with laughter and interactive encounters with marine life.   The Pioneer in teaching Snorkelling as the Gateway to Scuba Diving  and Founder of PrivateScubaLessons.com, offering unique snorkelling/scuba skills assessment quiz

A native Floridian, Laura’s love for the water began at an early age when her dad introduced her to SCUBA diving at 9 years old. Laura’s captivating talks draw from her journey as a Registered nurse turned Scuba Diving professional. Her story exemplifies the transformative power of following one’s passions and transcending conventional career paths.

Website: PrivateScubaLessons.com 

Email: LauraParkeScuba@gmail.com 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/LauraParke1

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YouTube: @LauraParkeScubaDiving

Facebook:  - www.facebook.com/laura.parke.7

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Ted Harty is scuba instructor from the Florida keys, who ditched the scuba tanks to become a Freediving instructor.  Ted is the founder of Immersion Freediving which he started in 2010.  He’s an instructor trainer for Performance Freediving, and is a past USA freediving record holder.  His deepest free dive is 279ft or 85 meters and his longest breath hold is 7 minutes.

 

He’s appeared on the Discovery Channel with Tim Kennedy, worked with Ben Greenfield and past CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey.  He has a podcast  Freedive Live where he shares his expertise and covers the most common questions, he has been asked over the past decade of teaching freediving.  Ted creates daily freediving advice videos on all his social channels.

 

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Gemma and Ian chat to Hayley Adlam.  Hayley has been crowned, Miss Scuba International 2023 and at the time of our interview she was a finalist about to embark on the competition in Malaysia. 

Having worked in the offshore industry alongside commercial divers for over a decade, Hayley dived into the world of Miss Scuba UK after seeing a noticeable gender gap not only within the recreational diving world (only 39% of registered PADI divers are women (2021)) but more notably, within the commercial dive sector where a minute proportion of women are represented.

Hayley, as a part of this year’s Miss Scuba UK team duo, aims to inspire other women to not only try scuba diving, but also show that there are plenty of opportunities within the commercial diving sector for all genders through sharing her knowledge and experience of the offshore world.

“During my time operating on offshore wind farm construction and subsea telecommunications vessels, there was a noticeable lack of women in the commercial dive teams working on our projects. I was inspired by the ethos of the Miss Scuba UK foundation whereby one of the primary aims is to encourage other women to take the plunge beneath the waves”.

Miss Scuba UK aims to create a safe space for women to explore the opportunities that learning to SCUBA dive has to offer and as an organisation, it has well and truly fulfilled this mission over the past 8 years. After a four year break due to COVID-19 it is now a case of continuing this work and engaging more women to take the plunge.

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