Photo Credit – Edward Stojakovic

Original Show Date:04/18/2013

Mack, Dave and Darrin get to talk about lots of water and scuba diving. With the spring comes rain tempered by a bad scuba joke. Carnival should dock in Saint Joseph. They would eventually sink one in the preserve.

Scuba in the News

• Trident Diving Equipment Recalls High-Pressure Scuba Diving Air Hoses Due to Drowning Hazard
  • http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trident-diving-equipment-recalls-high-pressure-scuba-diving-air-hoses-due-to-drowning-hazard-2013-04-18
• Chicago Flooding Forces Sewage to be diverted into Lake Michigan
  • http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-flooding-forces-sewage-to-be-diverted-into-lake-michigan-20130418,0,2229147.story
• Giant boxes attached to Costa Concordia to help refloat it
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10003575/Giant-boxes-attached-to-Costa-Concordia-to-help-refloat-it.html
• Another Carnival cruise ship loses power at sea
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2013/04/18/carnival-cruise-ship-power-loss/2092793/
• Carnival Cruise Lines Plans $300 Million In Ship Improvements Across Entire Fleet
  • http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/04/17/carnival-to-spend-millions-to-make-ships-safer-more-reliable/#ixzz2QrpQNBNV
• Scuba divers return to Wastwater to search for tail section of plane that crashed in 1945
  • http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/10365183.Scuba_divers_return_to_Wastwater_to_search_for_tail_section_of_plane_that_crashed_in_1945/?ref=mr
• Longest underwater clean-up record set
  • http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/04/14/longest-underwater-clean-up-record-set/
• Lionfish Attacking Atlantic Ocean Like A Living Oil Spill
  • http://www.npr.org/2013/04/17/177359109/lionfish-attack-the-gulf-of-mexico-like-a-living-oil-spill
• Florida officials encourage lionfish harvests
  • http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2013-04-18/Florida-officials-encourage-lionfish-harvests
• Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery
  • http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/04/neptune-memorial-reef-underwater.html
  • http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/03/subway-cars-dumped-into-sea-to-make.html

Photos of the week

• Scuba diver braves sub-zero conditions and eerie light to explore mysterious green underwater world
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2310817/Scuba-diver-braves-sub-zero-conditions-eerie-light-explore-mysterious-green-underwater-world.html
• 30 abandoned places that look truly beautiful.
  • http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/
• 7 Amazing Underwater Nature Photographers
  • http://www.techgraffiti.com/7-incredible-underwater-nature-photographers

Video of the Week

• Florida Caves
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/florida-caves/

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• No, You Can’t Use Google Glass While Scuba Diving?
  • http://mashable.com/2013/04/16/google-glass-faq/

Photo Credit – Dimitris Siskopoulos

Original Show Date: 04/11/2013

Jim, Dave and Darrin have a lot of catching up to do.

Scuba In the News

• Stingray stabs scuba diver ‘out of the blue’
  • http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/article/?type=article&id=31830
• University of Toledo scuba divers break world record
  • http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=882629#.UWdfg6HD-Hs
• Go Inside This Polar Ship Before It Was Lost At Sea
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/lyubov-orlova-russian-ghost-ship-photos-2013-2?op=1
• Adventures in Underwater Photography: Diving the coral reefs of Belize?
  • http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2013/04/adventures-in-underwater-photography-diving-the-coral-reefs-of-belize/
• avatar-2-james-cameron-will-use-underwater-motion-capture
  • http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/4/8/avatar-2-james-cameron-will-use-underwater-motion-capture.html
• Catch emerging fashions with DEMA show
  • http://thecoastnews.com/2013/04/catch-emerging-fashions-with-dema-show/
• Marine environment benefits wounded warriors
  • http://www.mcbhawaii.marines.mil/News/NewsArticleDisplay/tabid/6999/Article/140090/marine-environment-benefits-wounded-warriors.aspx
• North Carolina fishing tournament targets lionfish, an unwanted guest in coastal waters
  • http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/04/10/3973118/north-carolina-fishing-tournament.html
• Dive in… and swim with the sharks
  • http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=132803&sid=39458249&con_type=3&d_str=20130412&fc=7
• Warwick students in submarine speed record attempt
  • http://theboar.org/news/2013/apr/11/warwick-aims-beat-human-powered-submarine-speed-re/
• Scuba club pushes environmental conservation through trips, events
  • http://www.thebatt.com/lifestyles/scuba-club-pushes-environmental-convservation-through-trips-events-1.3019272#.UWc-DWt5mSM
• Scuba diver rescues footage of X Factor after airborne camera falls in Thames
  • http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/scuba-diver-rescues-footage-of-x-factor-after-airborne-camera-falls-in-thames-8568170.html
• Mysterious Stone Structure in Israel Discovered Beneath Waters of the Sea of Galilee : Human : Science World Report?
  • http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6172/20130411/mysterious-stone-structure-israel-discovered-beneath-waters-sea-galilee.htm
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/sea-of-galilee-underwater-stone-monument-archaeologists-israel_n_3051398.html

Jim, Dave and Darrin need to get wet soon. Time to get back in the water. How bad can the water really be?

Scuba in the News

• Three Guys in Scuba Suits Can Do More Damage to the Web Than You Think
  • http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/03/three-guys-scuba-suits-can-do-more-damage-web-you-think/63654/
• Deadly Dives – The push for commercial diving regulations
  • http://mynorthwest.com/646/2235341/Deadly-Dives–The-push-for-commercial-diving-regulations
• Phuket Expert Warns Reef ‘Killed for Cash’
  • http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-expert-warns-marine-disaster-says-reef-killed-cash-17785/
  • http://windham.patch.com/articles/will-nh-repeal-stand-your-ground-law
• Bristol home features largest privately-owned fish tank
  • http://fox6now.com/2013/03/27/bristol-home-features-largest-privately-owned-fish-tank/
• Lost Underwater Camera Reunited With Its Owner After Six Years
  • http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/03/lost-underwater-camera-reunited-with-its-owner-after-six-years/
• Airline worker reunites lost camera with owner
  • http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/26/2003558044
• Alabama’s reefs partnership holds cost down and attracts fish
  • http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/23/4548211/alabamas-reefs-partnership-holds.html
• Alabama Reef Foundation to celebrate sinking of ‘The LuLu’ on Memorial Day weekend
  • http://blog.al.com/live/2013/03/alabama_reef_foundation_to_cel.html
• Underwater fleet at Bikini Atoll inspires Port Orchard diver’s dream
  • http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/mar/23/underwater-fleet-at-bikini-atoll-inspires-port/#axzz2OsHxPTyV

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Peugeot’s Hybrid Air: the car of the future that runs on air
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/24/peugeot-hybrid-air-car-future

Scuba obsessed in the weekly podcast where we talk about all things scuba diving from cool new gear, places to dive and scuba in the news.

Scuba in the News

• Aqua Lung Recalls Buoyancy Compensators Due to Drowning Hazard
  • http://enewspf.com/latest-news/recalls/41444-aqua-lung-recalls-buoyancy-compensators-due-to-drowning-hazard.html
• County taking steps to let scuba divers return to Silver Springs
  • http://www.ocala.com/article/20130320/ARTICLES/130329960?tc=ar
• Looking for a few good volunteers
  • http://www.thewhig.com/2013/03/21/looking-for-a-few-good-volunteers
• Apollo mission rocket engines recovered
  • http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/20/apollo-mission-rocket-engines-recovered/?hpt=us_c2
• The deepest part of the ocean is “teeming” with microbes
  • http://io9.com/the-deepest-part-of-the-ocean-is-teeming-with-microbe-455634658 (What is the surprise…. fish poop).
• Wreck mystery solved
  • http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/wreck-mystery-solved-1.1489862#.UUujpzCsh8E
• 9-acre king of all sinkholes threatens to swallow a whole neighborhood
  • http://now.msn.com/sinkhole-in-louisiana-swallows-neighborhood

Photos

• Underwater Photography: Digital has Not Changed the Basic Principles
  • http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/wreck-mystery-solved-1.1489862#.UUujpzCsh8E
• Editing underwater pics for Dummies
  • http://www.zerotocruising.com/editing-underwater-pics-for-dummies/

Photo Credit – Sarah G…

Sorry about the audio for the first 1/3 of the show. We had to go to the backup recording.

Scuba in the News

• U.S. Divers Recalling Two Popular Youth Scuba Mask Sets After Reports Of Lacerations?
  • http://www.newsomelaw.com/blog/2013/03/11/us-divers-recalling-two-popular-youth-scuba-mask-sets-after-reports-lacerations
• DSIT diver detection systems ordered
  • http://m.upi.com/story/UPI-89391363098924/
• Vandals damage Sydney’s WW2 mini submarine wreck
  • http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/vandals-damage-sydney-s-ww2-mini-submarine-wreck-1-2837225
• Pacific Grove hyperbaric chamber may reopen by end of spring
  • http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_22755784/pacific-grove-hyperbaric-chamber-may-reopen-by-end
• Stressed Corals Glow Brightly Before They Die
  • http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/03/stressed-corals-glow-brightly-before-they-die/
• Manatees’ winter habits not unlike our own: find a warm spot, huddle up?
  • http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/manatees-winter-habits-not-unlike-our-own-find-a-warm-spot-huddle-up
• Kantours’ Snuba diving featured on WildJunket and Tips from the T-List?
  • http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/70996
• LinkedIn Paid An Employee $3,000 To Go Scuba Diving
  • http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/LinkedIn-Paid-An-Employee-3-000-To-Go-Scuba-4352047.php
• Blind-deaf Heather defies the odds in scuba dive
  • http://www.frankstonweekly.com.au/story/1351402/blind-deaf-heather-defies-the-odds-in-scuba-dive/?cs=1197

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Teledyne Wins $8.5 Million Expansion of SEAL Minisub Contract (TDY)
  • http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/03/12/teledyne-wins-85-million-expansion-of-seal-minisub.aspx
  • http://defensetech.org/2011/07/20/seal-minisub-reloaded/
• GearGrid Unveils Innovative Transport System – Firehouse?
  • http://www.firehouse.com/press_release/10893193/geargrid-unveils-innovative-transport-system

Photo Credit – JBrazito

Jim and Darrin are all over the map this week. We don’t blame you one bit if you skip the political bits. They seem to be the type of guys that kiss the third rail on a subway line. Oh well… we have you to promise a good scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Dive Shop Struggling, Court Told Tasmania News
  • http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/03/06/373945_tasmania-news.html
• Divers Unite for Windermere Clean-up
  • http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/divers-unite-for-windermere-clean-up-1.1040383
• Sport Chalet Explosion Causes Nearly $10,000 in Damage for La Cañada Business
  • http://www.lacanadaonline.com/news/tsn-vsl-0305-investigation-into-explosion-at-sport-chalet-in-la-cantildeada-continues,0,1314326.story
• Japanese Team to Remove Palau Bombs
  • http://www.mvariety.com/regional-news/palaupacific-news/54163-japanese-team-to-remove-palau-bombs
• Great White Sharks in California Get Extra Protection
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/great-white-sharks-california-get-extra-protection-starting-today
• Ancient Cypress Forest Dates Back 50,000 Years
  • http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/Ancient-Cypress-Forest-Off-Ala-Coast-Dates-Back-50000-Years-196051251.html
• N.C. Aquarium Brings Sea to Shore
  • http://www.cherrypoint.marines.mil/News/NewsArticleDisplay/tabid/4890/Article/139122/nc-aquarium-brings-sea-to-shore.aspx
• North Wales Scuba Chief Campaigns for New Marine Parks
  • http://www.dailypost.co.uk/farming-north-wales/farming-news/2013/03/07/north-wales-scuba-chief-campaigns-for-new-marine-parks-55578-32937443/
• County Explores Koenig Land for Multi-use Park
  • http://www.clarkstonnews.com/Articles-News-i-2013-03-06-250748.113121-sub-County-explores-Koenig-land-for-multiuse-park.html
• What Lies at the Bottom of Lake Michigan
  • http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/lake-michigan-historic-shipwrecks-eastland-disaster-lady-elgin/Content?oid=8898683
• Underwater Wakulla – Used Scuba Tanks
  • http://www.thewakullanews.com/content/underwater-wakulla-march-7-2013

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• The Navy Is Sick of the One-Person Subs It Uses for Deep-Sea Diving
  • http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/diving/

Photos of the Week

• Boisterous Baby Baleen
  • http://www.tonywublog.com/20130302/baby-gray-whale-eschrichtius-robustus-baja-mexico.html#axzz2MuVrtspj
• Underwater Design
  • http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682491/see-amazing-underwater-sculptures-made-of-our-marine-trash#1
• Dancing with Manta Rays in Midnight Underwater Photo Shoot
  • http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/02/manta-rays-shawn-heinrichs-kristian-schmidt/

Video of the Week

• Scuba Divers Join Harlem Shake Dance Craze
  • http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2013/03/05/1964553/

Dive Heart at Our World Underwater
Photo courtesy of Mac

Mac, Jim and Darrin are joined by guest Steve Philipson and talk about his upcoming rebreather course. We also have scuba in the news and the other pre-requisites of the show.

This Week’s Guest

Steve Philipson

Steve is a Michigan based sports photographer and local diver. He enjoys underwater photography with models but also sea life and wrecks. Originally from England, Steve certified with BSAC in the early 1980′s but began diving again in 2011 on a DSD with his son in Grand Caymen. Since then, he has worked his way through PADI training and is just about to complete his Dive Master course, hoping to achieve OW Instructor by September this year. Steve has invested in a LDS to spearhead rebreather diving and technology in MI, something he feels is currently missing. His future goals include certifying as rebreather diver and instructor on Ambient Pressure’s EVO and Inspiration, and Poseidon’s MKVI.

Scuba in the News

• Aquatics Center Won’t Be Coming to Merrillville
  • http://posttrib.suntimes.com/18380902-420/aquatics-center-wont-be-coming-to-merrillville.html
• Cebu Provincial Board Lays Rules on Scuba Diving
  • http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/359523/pb-lays-rules-on-scuba-diving
• Sanya Scuba Tours Accused of Price Gouging with Photo Packages
  • http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1153012/sanya-scuba-tours-accused-price-gouging-photo-packages
• Recreational Diving Goes Hi-tech in Qatar
  • http://www.gulf-times.com/qatar/178/details/342339/-recreational-diving-goes-hi-tech-in-qatar
• Weather Drives Dive Business Owner Around the Bend
  • http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/weather-drives-dive-business-owner-around-the-bend/1767594/
• Endangered Sharks Return ‘home’
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21497049
• Shark of the High Seas Actually a Homebody
  • http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/shark-of-the-high-seas.html
• Seafarer Science: Sailors Asked to Help Measure Plankton
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21547272
• Divers Plan New Lake Litter Pick
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21557995
• Deepest Undersea Vents Discovered
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21520404
• Bing Maps Adds 13M Square Kilometers of High-res Data, Better Ocean Mapping
  • http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/02/28/bing-maps-add-13m-square-kilometers-including-better-ocean-mapping-and-reduced-cloud-interferance/
• Two UC Santa Cruz Undergrads Explore Rare Underwater Event in Mediterranean
  • http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_22632170/two-uc-santa-cruz-undergrads-explore-rare-underwater
• ‘Ghost Cruise Ship’ Suddenly Appears in the Middle of the Ocean
  • http://www.cafemom.com/articles/in_the_news/151619/ghost_cruise_ship_suddenly_appears
• ‘Daydream’ Believer: Diver Plans Underwater Golf Saturday at Shores
  • http://lajolla.patch.com/articles/underwater-golf-tournament-tees-off-in-la-jolla-this-weekend

Is This a Scuba Movie? Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1965)

• A Down-on-his-luck California Apartment House Manager Hatches a Plan to Rob a Catalina Island Bank–and Escape with His Accomplices Using Scuba Gear
  • http://www.comicmix.com/news/press-releases/2013/02/22/film-buffs-get-new-releases-from-fox-cinema-archives/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058512/

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear (kind of)

• Inventor to Test Tsunami-Proof Pod over Niagara Falls
  • http://hawaii.news.blogs.civilbeat.com/post/43675198802/inventor-to-test-tsunami-proof-pod-over-niagara-falls
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282327/Julian-Sharpe-Do-really-think-youll-survive-tsunami-Seattle-inventor-test-new-ship-going-Niagara-falls.html

Photos of the Week

• Trapped in a Shark Feeding Frenzy
  • http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4817272/Trapped-in-a-shark-feeding-frenzy.html

Video of the Week

• Hawaii Woman Hitches Ride on Great White Shark
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/ocean-ramsey-swims-with-great-white-shark-video_n_2699092.html

   

Hath Hell Frozen Over At Last?

Mac, Jim and Darrin brave the cold tonight to discuss more scuba items. A kickstarter project has been funded and a dolphin has been saved. Oh, and a chat room winner has been chosen for last week’s promised give-away.

Scuba in the News

• Hot Tanks: Halifax Police Investigating Theft of Scuba Tanks from Shop
  • http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/halifax-police-investigating-theft-of-scuba-tanks-from-shop-1.1120397
• Missing Balls? Local Scuba Diver Is Mad That Someone Is Beating Him to the Underwater Golf Balls?
  • http://touch.dailypress.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74133278/
• Jenny Thompson Cites Benefits of Olympic Pool in City – Fosters?
  • http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130124/GJNEWS_01/130129601&template=DoverRegion
• Our World-Underwater Expo Looking for Volunteers
  • http://www.diverwire.com/post/scuba-community-news/our-world-underwater-expo-looking-for-volunteers/
• Sailfish Splash Waterpark Launches Scuba Diving Instruction Program
  • http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2013/jan/24/sailfish-splash-waterpark-launches-scuba-diving-in/
• Blackpool Sea Life Centre Finds 12,000 Sharks’ Teeth After Draining Aquarium for First Time in 23 Years
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267526/Blackpool-Sea-life-centre-finds-12-000-SHARKS-TEETH-draining-aquarium-time-23-years.html
• US Nuclear Attack Submarine Hits Fishing Vessel in Gulf
  • http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/11/16464911-us-nuclear-attack-submarine-hits-fishing-vessel-in-gulf?lite&lite=obnetwork

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Casio Announces Underwater Transceiver for Scuba Divers
  • http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20130118/260951/
• Fitness Company Launches Mobile App to Encourage Scuba Diving Fitness
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/fitness-company-launches-mobile-app-to-encourage-scuba-diving-fitness
• Bluebuddy – Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 LE Scuba Diving Logger
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607113047/blue-buddy-wireless-bluetooth-40-le-scuba-diving-l

Photos of the Week

• Art Exhibit, Once Under Water, on Display in Key West
  • http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Art-Exhibit-Once-Under-Water-Debuts-in-Key-West-187498351.html
• Naked Environmentalist Takes an Underwater Stand for Shark Awareness
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/naked-envionmentalist-takes-an-underwater-stand-for-shark-awareness
• Jerry Hall and Daughter Pose Topless Together – for Tuna
  • http://thelook.cdn.today.com/_news/2012/10/16/14480878-jerry-hall-and-daughter-pose-topless-together-for-tuna?lite&lite=obnetwork

Video of the Week

• Amazing Video of Injured Dolphin Seeking Help from Scuba Divers
  • http://americablog.com/2013/01/video-dolphin-seeking-help.html

Next Week’s Topic…

• 5 Things I Never Want to See as a Diver  (we promise this time!)
  • http://iarediver.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/top-5-things-you-dont-want-to-see-scuba.html

Who was on Moonshiners last night?

Jim and Darrin still don’t have ice, so they talk about dreams of grant money with a touch of underwater preserve instead. Listeners in the chat room enter a competition for a rather special give-away. A familiar face is spotted on Moonshiners.

Scuba in the News

• Those Little Things Add Up
• State DNR Fined $172,900 Following Investigation into Diver’s Death
  • http://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/186542751.html
• Project Planning 101
• More Money, Time Needed to Remove Concordia Wreck
  • http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/20569730/more-money-time-needed-to-remove-concordia-wreck
• Costa Concordia to Be Removed by September
  • http://news.sky.com/story/1037140/costa-concordia-to-be-removed-by-september
• A Great Day to Be a Seagull
• Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore on South Carolina Beach
  • http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16566091-tens-of-thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-ashore-on-south-carolina-beach?lite
• Report Exposed Beach Shipwrecks to the Preserve
  • http://www.michiganpreserves.org/
• Mission to save Aquarius Reef Base a Success
  • http://mission-blue.org/2013/01/mission-to-save-aquarius-reef-base-a-success/
• UCSB Groups Receive Multimillion-Dollar NSF Grants for Marine Research
  • http://www.noozhawk.com/article/011413_ucsb_groups_nsf_grants_marine_research/
• Bomb Disposal Experts Raise Funds for Diving Museum
  • http://navaltoday.com/2013/01/16/uk-diving-museum-in-gosport-hosts-rn-divers-bomb-disposal-experts/
• Plymouth’s John Smith Commended for 50 Years as a Royal Navy Diver
  • http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/John-surfaces-receive-award-diving-career/story-17852384-detail/story.html
• A Name That Rings a Bell!
  • http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/a-name-that-rings-a-bell-1-2743141
• Access Scuba – Now with a Dive Log
  • http://www.accessscuba.com

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Bluebuddy – Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 LE Scuba Diving Logger
• 15 Days to Go. 153 Backers and at 16,318 of 20,000
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607113047/blue-buddy-wireless-bluetooth-40-le-scuba-diving-l

Photos of the Week

• Denizens of the Deep: Alexander Semenov’s Pictures of Undersea Creatures
  • http://science.time.com/2013/01/15/denizens-of-the-deep-alexander-semenovs-pictures-of-undersea-creatures/photo/3098291447_0ae7d48203_o-2/
• Vertical Caves: Exploring Blue Holes
  • http://news.discovery.com/adventure/activities/blue-hole-pictures-130114.htm
• Architeuthis Giant Squid Stories
  • http://www.tonywublog.com/20130114/sperm-whale-and-architeuthis-giant-squid-ogasawara-japan.html#axzz2IHhBIIAu

Videos of the Week

• How Underwater Photographer Hugh Gentry Shot Newsweek’s First Animated Cover
  • http://www.popphoto.com/news/2013/01/how-underwater-photographer-hugh-gentry-shot-newsweeks-first-animated-cover

Next Week’s Topic…

• 5 Things I Never Want to See as a Diver
  • http://iarediver.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/top-5-things-you-dont-want-to-see-scuba.html

Anyone for Calamari?

Mac, Jim and Darrin have a splattering of news this week. We were dreaming of ice dives, but Mother Nature isn’t helping out. Not sure if we can call the ending a really bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Product Recall: High-pressure Scuba Diving Air Hoses
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/product-recall-high-pressure-scuba-diving-air-hoses/2013/01/10/3c8c1aa0-5b7e-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html
• Horse Rescued After Swimming 2 Miles into Ocean
  • http://us.cnn.com/2012/05/17/us/california-horse-sea-rescue/index.html
• Freedive and Scuba Diving Don’t Mix
  • http://www.swimmersdaily.com/2013/01/05/freedive-and-scuba-diving-dont-mix/
• Achieve Your New Years Resolutions Through Scuba Diving
  • http://www.padi.com/blog/2013/01/04/achieve-your-new-years-resolutions-through-scuba-diving/
• Mark of Trust for Dive Operators‏
  • http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20130108-393982.html
• North Africa: U.S. Navy Ship Takes Security Cooperation Underwater
  • http://allafrica.com/stories/201301091037.html
• Director’s Labor of Love Gets Help from Newman’s Own
  • http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/01/06/blogs/directors-labor-of-love-gets-help-from-newmans-own.html
• This Clean Enough, Ray? Staff at London Aquarium Don Scuba Gear to Scrub Tanks
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259659/Perfect-job-sea-sponge-Staff-London-Aquarium-don-scuba-gear-scrub-tanks-annual-deep-cleaning-session.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
• Live Giant Squid Filmed in the Pacific for the First Time
  • http://gizmodo.com/5973909/kraken-filmed-in-the-pacific-for-the-first-time
• East Lancashire Scuba Team Find Wreckage from Wartime Crash That Killed Accrington Airman
  • http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10149504.East_Lancashire_scuba_team_find_wreckage_from_wartime_crash_that_killed_Accrington_airman/
• Roman Shipwreck off Greek Island Antikythera May Actually Hold Two Ships‏
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/roman-shipwreck-greek-antikythera-two-ships_n_2425868.html

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Bluebuddy – Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 LE Scuba Diving Logger
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607113047/blue-buddy-wireless-bluetooth-40-le-scuba-diving-l

Merry Christmas!

Jim, Dave and Darrin cover some more scuba happenings this week. Mac chimed in from the chat room. This was the last podcast…. for 2012. We will see you next week with the start of Season 4!

Scuba in the News

• La Jolla Shores Association Votes to Create Beach Permit Review Committee
  • http://www.lajollalight.com/2012/12/26/la-jolla-shores-association-votes-to-create-beach-permit-review-committee/
• California Completes Undersea Parks Network
  • http://phys.org/news/2012-12-california-undersea-network.html
• Scuba Divers to Remove Fishing Net Entangled on Shipwrecked Barge
  • http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/scuba-divers-to-remove-fishing-net-entangled-on-shipwrecked-barge.html
• 12th International Submarine Races Announced
  • http://www.marinelink.com/news/international-submarine350319.aspx
  • http://www.isrsubrace.org/
• An Underwater Forest Reveals the Story of a Historic Megadrought
  • http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.22/underwater-forest-reveals-the-story-of-a-historic-megadrought
• USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
  • http://uscdiving.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/usc-dornsife-scientific-diving-the-catalina-hyperbaric-chamber/
• Low-water Rivers Offering up Glimpse of History
  • http://news.yahoo.com/low-water-rivers-offering-glimpse-history-181848393.html
• Hamilton’s War of 1812 Shipwrecks ‘an Archeologist’s Dream’
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/12/04/hamilton-1812-ships-great-lakes.html

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Robocod: Homeland Security Adds Underwater Drones to Their Arsenal with Robots Based on Fish
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2239705/Robocod-Homeland-Security-adds-underwater-drones-arsenal-robots-based-fish.html

Video of the Week

• Friendly Sea Turtle
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/sea-turtle/

Search and Recovery Dive in Paw Paw Lake

Shortly after recording this episode, the power was lost to our scuba podcasting bunker in the rural backwaters of Michigan. Even the predictions of the Mayans couldn’t keep us down and we present to you this episode.
Make sure you check out one of the websites we discuss in the last half of the show, Access Scuba.

Scuba in the News

• Maya Apocalypse 2012: Scuba Diving in Mexico’s Cenotes, the Maya Vision of Hell
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/maya-apocalypse-2012-scuba-cenote_n_2336945.html
• Scuba Dive Santas Net £5,000 for RNLI at Vobster Quay
  • http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Scuba-dive-Santas-net-5-000-RNLI-Vobster-Quay/story-17638939-detail/story.html
• One of the Deepest Pools in North America Set to Close
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/12/16/montreal-scuba-diving-pool-closure.html
• Ban on Feeding Fish at Diving Sites
  • http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Ban-on-feeding-fish-at-diving-sites-30196556.html
• Zebra Mussels Found by Havre De Grace
  • http://havredegrace.patch.com/articles/zebra-mussels-found-in-havre-de-grace
• Bigger Waistlines, Could Pinch Bottom Line for Boats
  • http://www.thedestinlog.com/outdoors/bigger-waistlines-could-pinch-bottom-line-for-boats-1.65233
• Possible Cure Found for Deadliest Jellyfish Sting
  • http://news.discovery.com/earth/possible-cure-found-for-deadliest-jellyfish-sting-121217.html
• Record-breaking Numbers of Manatee Calves Reported at Blue Spring
  • http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=99946
• WWII Submarine Discovered in Baltic Sea
  • http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/dec/18/wwii-submarine-discovered-baltic-sea/

Photos of the Week

• Not Sure If This Is a Diving Bell That I Would like to Use. It Reminds Me of a Furnace.
  • http://www.vcptv.com/news/chestatee-river-diving-bell/
• Leptocephalus
  • http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/amazing-animal-of-the-week-leptocephalus/
• Underwater ‘Tornado’ Made of Fish
  • http://www.theblaze.com/stories/can-you-guess-whats-happening-in-this-giant-underwater-tornado-made-of-fish/

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Something We Found via a Typo in the Address
  • http://scubacraft.com/

Videos of the Week

• Notice the Gear in the Second Video
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/fishing-under-ice/
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPTq8ylmnQ&list=UU9013JWZWntBD6Zy9mVJQpA

It’s an Official Turkey Dive!

Jim and Darrin cover Scuba items with a lot of things that should not be there.

Scuba in the News

• No One Inside Car Found in Erie Canal in Town of Sweden
  • http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2849946.shtml
• Forest Personnel Get Scuba Diving Training
  • http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/112032–forest-personnel-get-scuba-diving-training.html
• Mayor Pitches in for Harbour Clean-up
  • http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington-central/7993951/Mayor-pitches-in-for-harbour-clean-up
• It Appears Beaches Are Back After Grand Canyon Flooding
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49986237/ns/technology_and_science-science/
• Tennessee Aquarium Featured in DIVER Magazine, Needs More Divers
  • http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/20209889/tennessee-aquarium-featured-in-diver-magazine-needs-more-divers
• Wanted: Weed-fighting Dive Team
  • http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x520554576/Wanted-Weed-fighting-dive-team
• Invasive Seaweed Species Spotted on Maine Coast, Poses Threat to Lobstermen and Beachgoers
  • http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/29/news/state/invasive-seaweed-species-spotted-on-maine-coast-poses-threat-to-lobstermen-and-beachgoers/
• Plymouth Divers Are Probing Mystery of Wreck Site off the Mewstone
  • http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-divers-probing-mystery-wreck-site/story-17411298-detail/story.html

Happy Thanksgiving!

As Jim said, we talked about flying pigs and beer drinking whales.

Scuba in the News

• Antigua’s Deadliest Catch
  • http://www.caribarena.com/antigua/opinions/opinion-pieces/102273-antigua-s-deadliest-catch.html
• Farmer Claims His Diving Pigs Produce Better Bacon
  • http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/hottopics/2012/11/20/farmer-claims-his-diving-pigs-produce-better-bacon/
• Light & Motion Illuminates Extreme Places for Adventurers Everywhere
  • http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2012/nov/21/bikes-and-under-seas/
• Vehicles Recovered from Mesa Pond
  • http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/11/18/2771617/vehicles-recovered-from-mesa-pond.html
• Divers Find Yacht, Body and Cocaine
  • http://www.windsorstar.com/life/Divers+find+yacht+body+cocaine/7563716/story.html
• ‘Mike’s Wreck,’ Shipwreck off the Coast of Key Largo, Identified as Wreckage of Hannah M. Bell
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/mikes-wreck-key-largo-hannah-m-bell_n_2170796.html

Video of the Week

• Pig Diving
  • http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/hottopics/2012/11/20/farmer-claims-his-diving-pigs-produce-better-bacon/

No Dumping!

Jim, Mac and Darrin take a dark turn with a lot of negative news. At least DEMA was going on to give us hope for next week. Jim takes over the bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• WDFW Considers Ban on Hunting Octopuses off Seattle Beach
  • http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/nov0812a/
• Merrillville Council Considers Redistricting 2 Wards
  • http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/16367872-418/merrillville-council-considers-restricting-2-wards.html
• Two Hospitalized After Lake Mead Diving Accident
  • http://www.lvrj.com/news/national-park-service-divers-hospitalized-after-sunday-accident-at-lake-mead-178228721.html
  • http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/09/b-29-superfortress-lies-bottom-lake-mead-continues-draw-attention6862
• Nautilus Cancels Underwater Equipment Construction on Flagship Solwara Project
  • http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-australasia?oid=161912&sn=Detail&pid=102055
• Submarine Vets Call for USS Scorpion Investigation
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2012/11/10/scorpion-expedition-navy/1692343/
• Seismic Tests off Diablo Canyon Could Harm Divers
  • http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/11/10/2291933/seismic-tests-off-diablo-canyon.html
• Reef Fish Proposal Would Outlaw Scuba Spearfishing
  • http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Reef-fish-proposal-would-outlaw-scuba-spearfishing-4034075.php
• Sir Richard Branson and U.S. War Vets Swim with Sharks to Promote Conservation
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230694/Richard-Branson-dives-sharks-promote-conservation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Cascade Game Foundry Dives in with First Product: Infinite Scuba
  • http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Cascade-Game-Foundry-Dives-in-with-First-Product-4036154.php
• PADI Launches Dive & Win Contest
  • http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/15/4987906/padi-launches-dive-win-contest.html
• Rescue Found, but Reasons for Sinking Remain a Mystery
  • http://glenarborsun.com/rescue-found-but-reasons-for-sinking-remain-a-mystery/

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• EnergySails Harness Wind and Solar Power to Cut Ship Fuel Consumption
  • http://www.gizmag.com/eco-marine-power-energysail-solar-sails/25005/
• Scuba Leg Water Prosthetic
  • http://www.onlinetmd.com/under-water-prosthetic-medical-device-111512.aspx
• WFS Tests Seatooth S100 at the Underwater Centre (UK)
  • http://subseaworldnews.com/2012/11/13/wfs-tests-seatooth-s100-at-the-underwater-centre-uk/
• Casio Device Lets Scuba Divers Converse Underwater
  • http://www.gizmag.com/casio-logosease-scuba-communications/24998/

Pig Decomposing Under Water

Scuba in the News

• Dylan Mayer Tells His Side of the Story
  • http://kiroradio.com/listen/9948224
• Octo Update: Sign a Petition to Protect the Octopus in Puget Sound
  • http://mynorthwest.com/874/2121315/Octo-Update-Sign-a-Petition-To-Protect-the-Octopus-in-Puget-Sound
• Military Divers Memorial Opens in Panama City
  • http://www.pnj.com/article/20121104/NEWS12/311040033/Military-divers-memorial-opens-Panama-City?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7C&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
• Scuba Air Hoses Recalled
  • http://community.statesmanjournal.com/blogs/outdoors/2012/11/07/scuba-air-hoses-recalled
• Talking About Dangling Hoses… Deputies Chase down Naked Man
  • http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/police-blotter-deputies-chase-down-naked-man-1.42471
• Kiwi Attempts Underwater Swimming Record
  • http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-attempts-underwater-swimming-record/tabid/415/articleID/275375/Default.aspx
• Taking the Plunge with New Business
  • http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/business/latest-news/taking-the-plunge-with-new-business-1-5107688
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/what-happens-underwater-during-a-hurricane_n_2066084.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
• Russian Scuba Divers Find Shipwrecked Polymetal Gold Cargo
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/us-russia-shipwreck-gold-idUSBRE8A60YF20121107
• 10 Best Scuba Diving Websites Worth Diving Into
  • http://www.scuba-diving-smiles.com/scuba-diving-websites.html

Photo of the Week

• 10ft-long Rainbow ‘Bobbit Worm’
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2221813/Eunice-aphroditois-The-10ft-long-rainbow-bobbit-worm-uses-scissors-slice-prey-two.html

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Yamaha-frame Bike with Scuba Tank Makes Dyson Shortlist
  • http://phys.org/news/2012-11-yamaha-frame-bike-scuba-tank-dyson.html
• A Wing That Lets You Fly Underwater
  • http://www.gadling.com/2012/11/07/a-wing-that-lets-you-fly-underwater/

Video of the Week

• Tips for Diving with Manatees: PSA by DEMA and Be A Diver Including the Voice of Jimmy Buffett
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6-WJgkymAQ&feature=youtu.be
• Watch a Pig Decompose Underwater
  • http://updates.gizmodo.com/post/34794806931/watch-a-pig-decompose-underwater-by-casey-chan
• 10ft-long Rainbow ‘Bobbit Worm’
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2221813/Eunice-aphroditois-The-10ft-long-rainbow-bobbit-worm-uses-scissors-slice-prey-two.html
• One Day in Monterey
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_yUbDXn9Cs&list=UU1-_1zZHE5iEbPZeune2r5w&index=1&feature=plcp

Scuba Diver in a Flooded Subway

A lot of Sandy items this week that Mac and Darrin talk about. Some talk about the Go Pro Hero 3. A bad scuba joke that sounds familiar.

Scuba in the News

• Hurricane Sandy Leaves Total Devastation in Monmouth County
  • http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/hurricane_sandy_leaves_total_d.html
• Project Attempts to Smother Invasive Clams?
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/31/lake-tahoe-invasive-clams/1671959/
• Halloween-colored Lobster Caught off Mass. Coast
  • http://news.msn.com/science-technology/halloween-colored-lobster-caught-off-mass-coast
• Stealing 100,001 Lives
  • http://www.raptureofthedeep.net/alkigpo
• Developers Unveil Plans for 24 Underwater Turbines off Coast near Eastport
  • http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/26/news/down-east/developers-unveil-plans-for-24-underwater-turbines-off-coast-near-eastport/
  • http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112665538/tidal-energy-project-cobscook-bay-tidgen/
  • http://gcaptain.com/americas-first-ocean-energy-project-now-online/
  • http://mhk.pnnl.gov/wiki/index.php/Cobscook_Bay_TidGen
• Help Scuba Divers and Navy Clean up Pittwater
  • http://origin.manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/help-scuba-divers-and-navy-clean-up-pittwater/
• Diving Suit Won’t Weigh Ian down in Charity Fundraiser
  • http://www.wwgazette.co.uk/2012/10/diver-suit-wont-weigh-ian-down-in-charity-fundraiser/
• Underwater Garden Gnomes Hidden in Lake District
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-20066683
• Weather Buoy Launched in Lake Michigan
  • http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/ottawa_county/weather-buoy-set-for-lake-michigan
• A Dive into the Harbour’s History
  • http://queensjournal.ca/story/2012-10-30/features/dive-harbours-history/

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Hookah Rigs – Florida Sportsman?
  • http://www.floridasportsman.com/2012/11/01/hookah-rigs-2/
• GoPro Hero3 Camera Is a Small Wonder
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2012/10/31/gopro-hero3/1671251/

Photos of the Week

• Escalator Under Water at the South Ferry Subway Station
  • http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680828/a-look-inside-new-yorks-underwater-subways#1
• Real or Hoax: Scuba Diver in New York Subway
  • http://wafflesatnoon.com/2012/10/31/real-or-hoax-scuba-diver-in-new-york-subway/

Videos of the Week

• Inside the Totally Flooded Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
  • http://gothamist.com/2012/10/30/video_inside_the_totally_flooded_br.php
• 70 Miles to the Sea – UK Dive Local Video
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/70-miles-to-the-sea/

Mac, Jim and Darrin discuss scuba in the news. There is a full load of scuba in the new. There is a bad joke somewhere in this mess.

 Scuba in the News

• Suspicious Package at Kirkland PO Just Leaking SCUBA Tank – Kirkland, WA Patch?
  • http://kirkland.patch.com/articles/firefighters-investigate-suspicous-package-at-kirkland-post-office
• Minn. DNR: Attempt to kill zebra mussels fails
  • http://m.crookstontimes.com/article/20121024/NEWS/121029838/1001/NEWS
• Seaweed holds secret to underwater glue
  • http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/532653873-seaweed-holds-secret-to-underwater-glue
• Ocean Acidification Research Suggests Return To Dinosaur-Era Underwater Acoustics
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/oceans-acidification-acoustics-dinosaurs_n_1989111.html?ir=Green
• No treasures in this underwater dive
  • http://www.havasunews.com/news/no-treasures-in-this-underwater-dive/article_8d2d6408-1b34-11e2-b596-0019bb2963f4.html
• Aquatics center, storage units planned for former Merrillville showroom
  • http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/15942580-418/aquatics-center-storage-units-planned-for-former-merrillville-showroom.html
• ‘Space Buddha’ Fake? Statue Carved From Meteorite Called Likely 20th Century Fraud
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/10/25/space-buddha-statue-fake-fraud_n_2015587.html
• $450,000 In Private Donations Will Allow Excavation Of Blackbeard’s Ship To Continue
  • http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/19/450000-in-private-donations-will-allow-excavation-of-blackbeards-ship-to-continue/
• Before you take up Diving…Some things you should know
  • http://trip.worldtravellist.com/2012/10/before-you-take-up-divingsome-things-you-should-know/

Photos of the week

• Diver’s out-of-cage great white shark encounter is photo opportunity of a lifetime
  • http://www.petethomasoutdoors.com/2012/10/divers-out-of-cage-great-white-shark-encounter-is-photo-opportunity-of-a-lifetime-.html

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Fishy robots do underwater wonders
  • http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/diversions/2012/October/diversions_October14.xml&section=diversions
  • http://aquaviews.net/featured/5-unusual-incredible-underwater-inventions-feats/
  • http://aquaviews.net/scuba-dive-destinations/top-10-cool-unusual-dive-sites/

Video of the week

• HELP!! Piranhas are eating the scuba diver!!
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/help-piranhas-are-eating-the-scuba-diver/

Dave and Darrin discuss scuba in the news. There were some painful videos. The show comes to a hault with the bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Rescue from above: Plane passengers aid stranded sailor
  • http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2012/10/18/14534184-rescue-from-above-plane-passengers-aid-stranded-sailor?lite
• Another Cave Diving Rescue At Blue Springs
  • http://www.wmbb.com/story/19837942/cave-diver
• Looters prey on Costa Concordia wreck – UPI.com?
  • http://m.upi.com/story/UPI-12471350398069/
• Experts: Costa Concordia equipment may not have been working before crash
  • http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14480554-experts-costa-concordia-equipment-may-not-have-been-working-before-crash?lite
• Scientists to test underwater mats to smother Asian clams in Lake Tahoe
  • http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/17/4917345/scientists-to-test-underwater.html
• Daniel Craig takes underwater naps
  • http://inmovies.ca/news/daniel_craig_takes_underwater_naps/9a77571a
• Report: Tons of Unexploded Bombs Lying in Coastal Waters
  • http://www.newsmax.com/SciTech/unexploded-bombs-underwater-coast/2012/10/08/id/459107
• Cooling off in the heat of battle! British soldiers in Afghanistan learn to scuba dive in tank constructed in the heart of Camp Bastion
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218705/Cooling-heat-battle-British-soldiers-Afghanistan-learn-scuba-dive-tank-constructed-heart-Camp-Bastion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Divers explore Copper Country mine
  • http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?list=~homelistssearch&id=813754

Potentially cook scuba gear

• Shark migrations studied with underwater robot along Delmarva Peninsula
  • http://phys.org/news/2012-10-shark-migrations-underwater-robot-delmarva.html
• GoPro unveils a new underwater, WiFi camera
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/gopro-unveils-a-new-underwater-wifi-camera/2012/10/18/3c9df368-44eb-4693-859c-9ab64aa60394_video.html

Picture of the week

• Diving in Israel — Red Sea — Wreck «SunBoat» and Amphibia Cars
  • http://www.kalachov.com/blog/2012/10/11/dajving-v-izraile-krasnoe-more-zatoplennyj-korabl-sunboat-i-amfibii-diving-in-israel-red-sea-wreck-sunboat-and-amphibia-cars/

Video of the week

• Divers explore Copper Country mine
  • http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?list=~homelistssearch&id=813754
• Alki Storm Water Outfall off Alki Beach, time-lapse
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/alki-storm-water-outfall-off-alki-beach-time-lapse/

Show Notes for Episode 133 Netcast/Podcast

What can we say? This is take two of the road trip. Darrin goes solo, the cooper river trip and broken episode from the road. We will make it up to you next week. This is the edited version with bonus material.

 Scuba in the News

• Diver survives 40 minutes in North Sea after air supply line is cut
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9564335/Diver-survives-40-minutes-in-North-Sea-after-air-supply-line-is-cut.html
• Atomic Aquatics Recalls Cobalt Dive Computer Due to Impact and Drowning Hazard
  • http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12286.html
• Female diver decries planned ‘Man in the Sea’ monument name
  • http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121001/NEWS14/121001012/Female-diver-decries-planned-Man-Sea-monument-name?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home&nclick_check=1
• Outdoors news and notes: Stone crab season, marine cleanups
  • http://www.tampabay.com/sports/outdoors/outdoors-news-and-notes-stone-crab-season-marine-cleanups/1255960
• Project will promote underwater sites statewide
  • http://poststar.com/news/local/project-will-promote-underwater-sites-statewide/article_bb8d75c4-0bf1-11e2-b5e7-001a4bcf887a.html
• Candidates for Harbor Police dive team perform security checks underneath USS Midway Museum
  • http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/30/tp-scuba-cops/
• An Up Close Look At NYPD’s Anti-Terror Dive Team
  • http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/02/seen-at-11-an-up-close-look-at-nypds-anti-terror-dive-team/
• Why Is There a Helium Shortage?
  • http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/why-is-there-a-helium-shortage-10031229
• The underwater gold rush
  • http://www.hcn.org/hcn/blogs/goat/the-underwater-gold-rush
• Bob Katter calls for bounty on deadly crown-of-thorns starfish
  • http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/bob-katter-calls-for-bounty-on-deadly-crown-of-thorns-starfish/story-fndo48ca-1226487155093
• Snorkel and scuba dive 3.5km for a beer
  • http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/snorkel-and-scuba-dive-3-5km-for-a-beer/1557188/

Potentially cool gear

• US gears up for underwater patrolling with Tuna fish robot – Parda Phash
  • http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14103244-googles-360-degree-tours-give-you-deeper-view-of-great-barrier-reef

Photo of the week

• scuba diver wins photographic competition
  • http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/snap-wa-scuba-diver-wins-photographic-competition/story-fndo486p-1226490156970

Videos of the week!

• Tiger Beach, Bahamas 2011

• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/tiger-beach-bahamas-2011/

• Skyfall Videoblog “Underwater”

• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/skyfall-videoblog-underwater/

Photo Credit – moodlightbulb

Mac, Jim and Darrin have a jaunt through Scuba in the News. We get sidetracked by some crap about closing down a perfectly good dive spot. This week’s topic was how to name a shipwreck.

Scuba in the News

• Diver survives severed air supply line in North Sea
  • http://www.sportdiver.co.uk/News/Latest-News/Diver-survives-severed-air-supply-line-in-North-Sea#
• Fish food: Wakeboarder’s finger found in lake trout
  • http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14103699-fish-food-wakeboarders-finger-found-in-lake-trout?lite
• Underwater War: Killing lake trout to save cutthroat in Yellowstone Park
  • http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/09/underwater-war-killing-lake-trout-save-cutthroat-yellowstone-park/
• A Stolen Vehicle Recovered
  • http://www.scubaherald.com/a-stolen-vehicle-recovered/
• Shipwrecks protected in newest underwater preserve – minbcnews.com
  • http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=804615
• West Michigan Underwater Preserve officially recognized by state to promote, protect shipwrecks
  • http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/09/west_michigan_underwater_prese.html
• Divers-owners-say-goodbye-to-Big-Blue
  • http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstories/x325726898/Divers-owners-say-goodbye-to-Big-Blue
  • http://quarriesandbeyond.org/states/mo/mo-quarry_photos_17.html
• Underwater Crop Circles Discovered in the Coastal Waters of Japan
  • http://laughingsquid.com/underwater-crop-circles-discovered-in-the-coastal-waters-of-japan/
• 17th-century stolen treasures being recovered from river in Poland
  • http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/21/17th-century-stolen-treasures-being-recovered-from-river-in-poland/?intcmp=obnetwork

Potentially cool gear

• US gears up for underwater patrolling with Tuna fish robot – Parda Phash
  • http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14103244-googles-360-degree-tours-give-you-deeper-view-of-great-barrier-reef

Videos of the week!

• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/explore-the-ocean-with-google-maps/
• http://www.newser.com/story/154757/google-maps-goes-scuba-diving.html 
• http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/25/14103244-googles-360-degree-tours-give-you-deeper-view-of-great-barrier-reef
• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/ironsides/ 
• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/mergulhando-com-sucuris-diving-with-anacondas/
• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/incredible-dolphin-birth-at-dolphin-quest-hawaii/
• http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/dakuwaqas-garden-underwater-footage-from-fija-tonga/

Also it looks like Clare is going Tech…..

• http://divebunnie.blogspot.fr/2012/09/and-back-to-being-beginner.html#!/2012/09/and-back-to-being-beginner.html
• http://divebunnie.blogspot.fr/2012/09/day-two-of-advanced-nitrox.html

This next photo is in honor of the after podcast chats. Join us in the chat room and have skype ready for divers round table.

We should apologize in advance. The scuba joke is so bad we feel we must warn you. Also Jim, Mac and Darrin talk about Scuba in the news and a some dives on Mac’s wreck. There were some letters from listeners and yep; the exceptionally bad scuba joke.

Follow-up from last week

From Ed Johnsick on facebook

“Wood stock anchor was lost do to a collision, that is why the howse pipe was still on the chain, 50′ from the anchor was a complete windless.”

Scuba in the News

• Scuba diver seeks to reunite holiday makers with camera saved from sea
  • http://www.metro.co.uk/news/912544-scuba-diver-seeks-to-reunite-holiday-makers-with-camera-saved-from-sea
• Family who lost 800 photos when their camera fell into sea are reunited with their ‘precious memories’
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206248/Family-reunited-800-lost-pictures-diver-recovers-missing-camera-seabed.html
• Falmouth divers find camera during seabed rubbish clean
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19633143
• James Cameron Says Leonardo DiCaprio Hated Getting Wet While Working On Titanic
  • http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/255721/[Movies]-James-Cameron-Says-Leonardo-DiCaprio-Hated-Getting-Wet-While-Working-On-Titanic.htm
• Justin Timberlake recalls shark horror
  • http://www.kypost.com/dpp/entertainment/celebrity/Justin-Timberlake-recalls-shark-horror_05681932
• Revealed: How sea lions make mega-dives
  • http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Science+and+Tech/Story/A1Story20120919-372460.html
• Vasa, Famed 17th Century Warship In Sweden, Deteriorating Fast
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/vasa-sweden-deteriorating_n_1881220.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk3&pLid=206187
• Getting to the Bottom of a Shipwreck Mystery
  • http://www.floridasportsman.com/2012/09/20/national-association-of-black-scuba-divers-to-help-florida-keys-national-marine-sanctuary-unravel-shipwreck-mystery/#ixzz273fiVb41
• Woman yelling ‘I’m Jack Sparrow!’ hijacks ferry
  • http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13987711-woman-yelling-im-jack-sparrow-hijacks-ferry?lite

Videos of the week!

• Shipwrecked – Alestorm
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/shipwrecked/
• Giant German Luftwaffe Aircraft Wreck Found
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/giant-german-luftwaffe-aircraft-wreck-found/
  • http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/2323-full.html#207349 
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203219/Found-70-years-Divers-discover-wreckage-Second-World-War-Giant-German-transport-plane-shot-British-fighter-flying-base-Sardinia.html

Jim, Mac and Darrin catch up on the dives up north after dipping into Scuba in the News. The days may be shorter but there is still diving going on. Also a stinky Scuba Joke of the week. Not to mention a few dive videos and some photos.

Scuba in the News

• Diver swims 20 MILES through shark-infested seas to reach safety after being abandoned by boatman
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028825/Japanese-dive-instructor-Hishashi-Koze-survives-shark-infested-seas-20-MILES.html#ixzz267PQTrW9
• Marin Scuba Club to present talk on sharks
  • http://www.marinij.com/sanrafael/ci_21516849/marin-scuba-club-present-talk-sharks
• Divers Bring Trash To Surface Saturday?
  • http://www.gazettes.com/news/environment/divers-bring-trash-to-surface-saturday/article_8d5cc8de-f86a-11e1-a6cb-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=jqm
• Slightly Used Truck
  • http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/One-Slightly-Used-Truck-For-Sale-169608046.html
• Inaugural Miss Scuba Singapore 2012 huge success?
  • http://www.sportdiver.co.uk/News/Latest-News/Inaugural-Miss-Scuba-Singapore-2012-huge-success
• Laros logs 10,000th scuba dive
  • http://www.hawaii247.com/2012/09/10/laros-logs-10000th-scuba-dive/
• A New View of the Great Wall: Through a Scuba Mask
  • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577623770630433752.html
• Queen Anne’s Revenge dive expedition begins this week
  • http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120905/ARTICLES/120909854?Title=Queen-Anne-s-Revenge-dive-expedition-begins-this-week

Other Related News

• Costa Concordia Salvage Delayed
  • http://news.discovery.com/earth/costa-concordia-salvage-delay-120827.html

Photos of the Week

• And what are YOU looking at? Adorable sea lion caught playing with its own reflection
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201513/And-YOU-looking-Adorable-sea-lion-caught-playing-reflection.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• All Ears! An Underwater Sculpture that Listens
  • http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2012/09/all-ears-an-underwater-sculpture-that-listens/
• St.Clair River Scuba Divers Bring Up Wood Stock Anchor
  •  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=517051558309567&set=o.121640456395&type=1&theater

Scuba Obsessed Videos

• 2008 USS Monitor Expedition
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/2008-uss-monitor-expedition/

Potential Cool Scuba Gear

•  Full face diving mask NIGHT DIVER Cyclops
  • http://news.nauticexpo.com/press/tei-ltd/full-face-diving-mask-night-diver-cyclops-44218-202678.html?mlrmbridv=OR7Z6T6B1M3H5O9N3HK&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14-09-2012&utm_content=photo

Deadeye on Mac’s Wreck – Photo Credit Dave Tonneman

After a long weekend of diving Mac, Jim and Darrin talk about diving some more. Summer may be mostly over but still plenty of scuba diving yet to do. Jim is now up north doing more diving. We wish we were their with him. Maybe the bad scuba joke will hold us over for another week.

Scuba in the News

• DNR diver high on cocaine at time of drowning — Notice the boat in the photo. I want!
  • http://www.king5.com/news/local/DNR-diver-high-on-cocaine-at-time-of-drowning-168609666.html
• Manatee deputies trying to ID owners of stolen scuba gear — Worst photo ever!
  • http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/05/4186076/manatee-deputies-trying-to-id.html
• No public cave diving at Wakulla Spring
  • http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20120904/NEWS01/120904010/No-public-cave-diving-Wakulla-Spring?nclick_check=1
• Bermuda is top story in dive magazine – with no help from Tourism Dept
  • http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120906/BUSINESS03/709069909
• Nantwich couple search for scuba diving vicar
  • http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/crewe-news/local-crewe-news/2012/09/05/nantwich-couple-search-for-scuba-diving-vicar-96135-31766889/
• Scuba divers record rich pickings
  • http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2012-09-03/scuba-divers-record-rich-pickings/
• Newhaven divers in underwater litter pick
  • http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9911843.Newhaven_divers_in_underwater_litter_pick/
• What a rubbish dive! Bermondsey scuba divers scoop up litter in bid to clean up Canada Water
  • http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/what-a-rubbish-dive-bermondsey-scuba-divers-scoop-up-litter-in-bid-to-clean-up-canada-water-8104244.html
• Man hoping to reclaim brother’s scuba dive record
  • http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/man-hoping-to-reclaim-brothers-scuba-dive-record-565711.html
• Giant Horseshoe Crab Sculpture Crashes to Bottom of Atlantic Ocean
  • http://www.tomsrivernjonline.com/2012/08/31/giant-horseshoe-crab-sculpture-crashes-to-bottom-of-atlantic-ocean/6520/
• DAN reaches out in support of Aquarius Reef Base
  • http://topside-ndp.blogspot.fr/2012/09/dan-reaches-out-in-support-of-aquarius.html

Dave and Justin Coming Back from Diving Mac’s Wreck

Photo of the Week

• Atmospheric Diving Suit
• Made by Neufeldt and Kuhnke in Germany 1939, requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1945. Tested to 350ft. P9020244
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/7916606794/

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Iron Man 3: The Stark Industries Dive Shop
  • http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/09/04/iron-man-3-the-stark-industries-dive-shop/

Video of the week

• The Scuba Diver Song – Thanks for Jeff Vance for turning us on to this.
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/tim-blue-beaman-underwater-survivor-the-scuba-diver-song/
• Lost Camera
• William Young
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQlRpLZHLhg&feature=player_embedded
• The Scuba Diver Song – Thanks for Jeff Vance for turning us on to this.
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/tim-blue-beaman-underwater-survivor-the-scuba-diver-song/

Travis and team drooling over the Michigan DNR Jet Boat after the River Dive

Mac, Jim and Darrin put their take to scuba in the news. There were scuba bans, new shipwrecks and a giant 100+ ton horseshoe crab to keep them busy. Almost makes of for them being dry this week. Almost but not quite. They also had a seasonally appropriate bad scuba joke.

Scuba In the News

• Scuba ban aimed at keeping Crater Lake pristine
  • http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120830/NEWS/208300338
  • http://www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/20120830/NEWS/308300029/Crater-Lake-closed-diving-due-threat-invasive-species
  • http://www.nps.gov/crla/parknews/temporary-closure-to-scuba.htm
• Background information
  • http://www.anstaskforce.gov/default.php
  • http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/planning-visit/activities/scuba-diving.htm
  • http://www.chron.com/life/article/Crater-Lake-takes-your-breath-away-3825501.php
  • http://www.anstaskforce.gov/QZAP/QZAP_FINAL_Feb2010.pdf
  • http://www.anstaskforce.gov/QZAP/Transmittalletter-finalQZAP.pdf
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vT4tCCtz4
• San Diego divers uncover the missing Aegean
  • http://sdnews.com/view/full_story/19970333/article-San-Diego-divers-uncover-the-missing-Aegean?instance=most_popular1
• Robots with vision piece together damaged coral
  • http://www.vision-systems.com/blogs/vision-insider/2012/08/robots-with-vision-piece-together-damaged-coral.html
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19396944
• Divers clean up popular lake near Wendover
  • http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/neighborhooddaviscounty/54721162-123/divers-dive-lake-blue.html.csp
• Record-breaking horseshoe crab sinks off Monmouth County coast
  • http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2012/08/record-breaking_horseshoe_crab_sinks_off_monmouth_county_coast.html
  • http://www.tomsrivernjonline.com/2012/08/30/worlds-largest-underwater-sculpture-a-horseshoe-crab-to-be-sunk-thursday-off-jersey-shore-coast/6413/
• The doomsday ship that could blow Boris’s airport dream sky high: 3,000 ton timebomb shipwrecked in the Thames estuary
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195590/3-000-ton-timebomb-shipwrecked-Thames-estuary.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• UNH researcher aids in discovery of Antarctic shipwreck
  • http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120830-NEWS-208300406
  • http://www.schmidtocean.org/story/show/826

Video of the week

• Freewheeling – Creating the Spectacle
  • http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/creating-the-spectacle-online-part-1-finding-freedom/

Once again Mac, Jim and Darrin geek out about scuba diving and discuss scuba in the news. They correct some items from the week before and make a whole new rounds of mistakes. DEMA had a load of press release lately and the last few weeks. The chat room was full and so was the show. Thank you for listening.

Scuba in the News

• Mummified body found in Lake Michigan is diver who disappeared 13 years ago
  • http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mummified-body-found-lake-michigan-diver-disappeared-13-years-article-1.1142045
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/dirk-kann-found-mummified_n_1825338.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl12%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D196388
• ‘Dinosaur bends’ caused by leisurely sea diving
  • http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Kaleidoscope/Dinosaur-bends-caused-by-leisurely-sea-diving/Article1-915489.aspx
• Scuba Diving Chef Alton Brown Urges Americans to Eat More Squid
  • http://www.wdef.com/news/story/Scuba-Diving-Chef-Alton-Brown-Urges-Americans-to/pLPfgclCskmmQZST51I99g.cspx
• Scuba diving into fish territory
  • http://www.waow.com/story/19333863/scuba-diving-into-fish-territory
• Communities secure Lottery funding
  • http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jNP-wbj_Q7vHZ5bkNlToSjeEYM9g?docId=A33083911345558884A0
• Kaysville Boy Scout earns all 133 merit badges by age of 15
  • http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/08/22/kaysville-boy-scout-earns-all-133-merit-badges-age-15
• Search for lost Franklin ships launched in Canada’s Arctic
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/06/f-franklin-search-erebus-terror-arctic.html
• Explorer LaSalle’s shipwreck to be freeze-dried, rebuilt
  • http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/explorer-lasalles-shipwreck-to-be-freeze-dried-rebuilt/story-e6frfq80-1226451323984

Potentiall cool Scuba Gear

• http://www.heroarmor.com/

Divevideo of the week

• Tech Dive of the Dunderburg – 141 year old Great Lakes shipwreck
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNNy4K-VwE&feature=related
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czwWk0qFVTY&list=UUCDZRRyCZBA5DfDL9OCLL8Q&index=9&feature=plcp
• Both videos are available on the new website Darrin talked about.  Maybe he let it slip where it is at?

This episode is so full you will just have to listen to it to find out what we talked about. We learned a lot! Except for the bad (almost) scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Penfield man injured in scuba diving incident
  • http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120813/NEWS01/308130015/penfield-man-injured-in-scuba-diving-incident?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CLocal%20News
• Cerritos Sheriff’s Detective Tracks Down Burglar Who Stole $5,000+ of Scuba Diving Gear
  • http://cerritos.patch.com/articles/sheriff-s-detective-tracks-down-burglar-accused-of-stealing-5-000-scuba-diving-gear-in-cerritos
• Great Lakes Underwater Presents Historic Weather, Shipwrecks, Scuba & Paddlers Program
  • http://madisoncountycourier.com/beyond-our-borders/33791/
• Cavern and Cave Diving
  • http://www.alertdiver.com/Cavern_and_Cave_Diving
• Watertown teen chosen to participate in scuba diving expedition
  • http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/features/x769536924/Watertown-teen-chosen-to-participate-in-scuba-diving-expedition#axzz23kWnsqMS
• Seattle Sketcher | Scuba diving in Puget Sound
  • http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018894642_sketcher11.html
  • http://www.edmondswa.gov/services/education/discovery-programs/edmonds-underwater-park.html
• Shipwreck mystery solved
  • http://phys.org/news/2012-08-shipwreck-mystery.html

Dive Photos of the week

• Underwater Wreck Photography Tips
  • http://www.sportdiver.com/gear/photo-video-equipment/underwater-wreck-photography-tips-images

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Mini underwater sub raises $111K for amateur ocean exploration
  • http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/12/mini-underwater-sub-raises-111k-for-amateur-ocean-exploration/
• Volkswagen Reveals ‘Underwater Car’ For The Discovery Channel
  • http://designtaxi.com/news/353288/Volkswagen-Reveals-Underwater-Car-For-The-Discovery-Channel/

Video of the week

• Weekend Special: Underwater Torpedo Adopted By A Group Of Traveling Mammals
  • http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/aug/11/weekend-special-underwater-torpedo-adopted-by-a-group-of-traveling-mammals/

Other Random Bits

• Mac’s wreck - Buoy data after the lake “rolled over”.
  • https://www.facebook.com/scubaobsessed?ref=hl#!/photo.php?fbid=10151024974638380&set=a.343176263379.153944.233252943379&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_comment
• The Ontario
  • http://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/discovery-of-an-early-1800s-schooner-in-lake-ontario

We have a pile of scuba in the news. We discuss dive socials, gaureenteed prizes, spicey diving dipolmas and the best dive flag ever.

Scuba in the News

• Spring Township police investigate theft of spear guns, other diving gear?
  • http://m.bctv.org/mobile/special_reports/safety/spring-township-police-investigate-theft-of-spear-guns-other-diving/article_5a69daf6-e23b-11e1-a7ad-001a4bcf887a.html
• Drugs: Now In Empanada And Scuba Diving Diploma Flavors!: Gothamist?
  • http://gothamist.com/2012/08/07/drugs_now_in_empanada_and_scuba_div.php#photo-1
• The Wanted swim with sharks: ‘They’re cold toothy gits’
  • http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a398484/the-wanted-swim-with-sharks-theyre-cold-toothy-gits-pictures.html
• Cancer survivors and sharks need your vote
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/cancer-survivors-and-sharks-need-your-vote
• Divepoint gives people with disabilities kayak rides
  • http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120803/CWS03/308030183/Divepoint-gives-people-disabilities-kayak-rides
• That’s a lot of snails: 504 pounds pulled from Clearwater Lake
  • http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/features/thats-a-lot-of-snails-504-pounds-pulled-from-clearwater-lake/
  • http://invasivore.org/tag/chinese-mysterysnail/
• Here’s your medal – try not to lose it
  • http://sports.yahoo.com/news/heres-medal-try-not-lose-173753001–spt.html
• Tarpons highlight annual Terrebonne Sportsman’s League Rodeo
  • http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20120804/ARTICLES/120809805
• Schaumburg opposes diving shop in unincorporated home
  • http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120725/business/707259702/
  • http://modernscuba.com/blog/tag/diving-equipment/
• Phoenix Dive Socials Announced for the Month of August
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/phoenix-dive-socials-announced-for-the-month-of-august
• Ultimate Diver Challenge: Survivor-like reality show puts divers to the test in Palm Beach County
  • http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-08-03/health/fl-ultimate-diver-challenge-20120803_1_reality-show-dive-instructor-scuba
• Boaters come to the rescue of stranded scuba diver waving bikini top as distress flag?
  • http://m.therepublic.com/view/story/140734dea76d4d3097bb96a33531db97/FL–Stranded-Diver

Video of the week

• Seabird cam lets you experience diving for food
  • http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/08/seabird-cam-cormorant.html?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-0608-GLOBAL|seabirdcam
• Fireboat
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj6WUimd7to&feature=share

Pictures of the week

• Tony Wu – Natural Ice Scupture
  • http://www.tonywublog.com/20120808/ice-sculpture-south-sawyer-glacier-alaska.html#axzz2362FCu3J

We though a set of six tanks was obsessed….

• Dave Tonneman’s 5 doubles photos.
  • https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=450369288330869&set=o.233252943379&type=1&theater

Mac’s Wreck Windless and Bow

Mac, Jim and Darrin cover scuba in the news. We have some great videos of a cold looking monkey dive and a 1 minute teaser video of Mac’s wreck. There is also time at the end for a bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Boat passengers get letters from attorney on scuba diving death
  • http://www.carolinalive.com/m/news/story?id=782273
• Metro Detroiters react to helium shortage
  • http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19149701/2012/07/30/metro-detroiters-react-to-helium-shortage
• Reducing underwater noise for Scuba Santa and other divers
  • http://www.wvxu.org/mobile/include_news_article.asp?ID=10188
• Underwater ‘electrical outlets’ put in place for cabled ocean observatory project
  • http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/07/26/underwater-electrical-outlets-put-in-place-for-cabled-ocean-observatory-project/
• South Carolina students to excavate shipwreck at Harbour Town
  • http://www.wcnc.com/news/regional/South-Carolina-students-to-excavate-shipwreck-at-Harbour-Town-162264755.html
  • http://www.thestate.com/2012/07/13/2353774/shipwreck-gives-usc-students-a.html

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Dive In
  • http://www.review.net/section/detail/dive-in/

Video of the Week

• Underwater Robots: University of Michigan Engineering
  • http://www.wfad08.org/robotics-university/underwater-robots-university-of-michigan-engineering
• Monkey Dive
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uH31x54nvc&feature=player_embedded
• Mack’s Wreck
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZPuQeiWs8eY

Mack, Jim, Dave and Darrin catch-up on two weeks of scuba news and diving. Mack discusses underwater communication systems. Dave talks about North Point Quarry in Ohio.

You can find many articles we don’t get a chance to talk about here at http://www.scoop.it/t/scubaobsessed

Scuba in the News

• Widow Blames Scuba Gear for Death of Wes Skiles
  • http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/07/24/48637.htm
• Nurse says deadly scuba accident possibly avoidable
  • http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=780624
• State to become site of biggest underwater sculpture
  • http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20120721/NJCOLUMNIST4001/307210038/State-to-become-site-of-biggest-underwater-sculpture?nclick_check=1
• Lawmakers scuba dive to undersea lab in Fla. Keys
  • http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/21/2905374/lawmakers-scuba-dive-to-undersea.html

But we really know what the lawmakers were after…. Lobster.

• Diving & Boating Safety Stressed Ahead Of Lobster Mini-Season
  • http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/divers-gear-up-for-lobster-mini-season-3/
• Scuba training enriches foster kids
  • http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/403605/tonyaa-weathersbee/2012-07-12/scuba-training-enriches-foster-kids
• Divers uncover two wrecked planes
  • http://www.kplctv.com/story/19105449/divers-uncover-two-wrecked-plane-believed-to-be-from-wwii
• Diver identifies North-East built steamer SS Ladoga – 109 years after sinking
  • http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9835094.Diver_identifies_North_East_built_steamer_SS_Ladoga___109_years_after_sinking/
• New dive quarry makes a splash
  • http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20120721/NEWS01/120721003/New-dive-quarry-makes-splash?odyssey=tab

North Point Quarry Opening

Dave talks about setting up the new North Point Quarry.

• Phone number for quarry information
  • 740-616-9945
• North Point Quarry website
  • http://www.northpointquarry.com
• northpointquarry on facebook
  • https://www.facebook.com//NorthPointQuarry#!/NorthPointQuarry

Last (couple of) Week’s Dives

We talk about the follow dive locations that were visited:

• Havana – Saint Joseph, MI
•  South pier – Saint Joseph, MI
• Gull lake
• Saint Joseph River – Fort Saint Joseph – French Fort – Niles, MI
• Paw Paw wreck
• The Muskegon Michigan City, IN
• Singer Lake – Baroda Michigan
• Lake 16 – Martin Michigan
• Break wall Michigan City, IN
• Fisher lake in Three Rivers
  • http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com (for dive site information)

Photo of the week

• http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/lake-michigan-shipwrecks-have-tales-to-tell/article_0baa169a-747c-56f3-8dd5-bc89b7707fcb.html

Video of the Week

• Whale shark sucks fish out of hole in fishing net
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqGYrlxWcdU&feature=youtu.be

 Listener Letters

@scubaobsessed could you share with us any tips or recommendations about underwater communication system

Mack talks about a lot of underwater communication systems he has experience with.

• http://www.oceanears.com/
• http://www.lubell.com/3300P.html
• http://www.oceantechnologysystems.com/
• “Glove Talk” – low tech approach.
• Don’t forget Hand signals, slates, ect.

The Michigan City Breakwater

Darrin, Mack and Jim S. catch up on Scuba in the News and a whole lot of diving. Jim S. returning to his old east coast stopping grounds and got in an atlantic wreck dive. Darrin and Mack dove the Muskegon in Michigan city and a fresh water reef in Michigan city. They even had time to get some warm weather river diving in looking for some bottles. The show as you guessed was capped off by the bad scuba joke.

Scuba In the News

• Costa Concordia captain freed from house arrest
  • http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48079928/ns/travel-news/
• Angler Yanks Scuba Diver to Surface
  • http://thegoat.backcountry.com/2012/07/02/angler-yanks-scuba-diver-to-surface/
• Diver’s dream: USS Mohawk sinking today will give enthusiasts new adventure
  • http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/jul/02/divers-dream-uss-mohawk-sinking-today-will-give/
• First divers explore new USS Mohawk artificial reef
  • http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2012-07-02/First-divers-explore-new-USS-Mohawk-artificial-reef
• Tiny shrews ‘warm up’ before cold dives
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18674864
• Bone-eating, acid-spitting Alien worm of the deep discovered
  • http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/bone-eating-acid-spitting-alien-worm-of-the-deep-discovered/story-e6frfkp9-1226416054930
• A Brand New Ocean — on Saturn’s Moon Titan
  • http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2118383,00.html
• Baltic Sea ‘sunken UFO’ begins to smell like an elaborate scam
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48018365/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/baltic-sea-sunken-ufo-begins-smell-elaborate-scam/

Video of the week

• VIDEO: Divers release baby lobsters into Plymouth Sound
  • http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/VIDEO-Divers-release-baby-lobsters-Plymouth-Sound/story-16476990-detail/story.html
• Cornwall divers help baby lobsters survive off Plymouth
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-18664679

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Four-Barrel Underwater Dart Gun
  • http://theawesomer.com/four-barrel-underwater-dart-gun/177256/
• US deep-sea submarine gets makeover to dive even deeper
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48050654/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Save A Dive Kit

Darrin does the show solo and covers the scuba news this week. There has been some diving with all this great weather. Yes there was a bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Could your favorite beach make you sick?
  • http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/06/survey-clean-beaches-national-resources-defense-council/789540/1
• Sea rise faster on East Coast than rest of globe
  • http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/story/2012-06-24/east-coast-sea-rise/55795690/1
• Titanic’s older sister welcomed home to Ontario | Not for #scuba though!
  • “ After nearly five decades away, the 107-year-old S.S. Keewatin, considered an older sister to the Titanic, returned home to Port McNicoll, Ont. on Saturday afternoon.”
  • http://www.scoop.it/t/scubaobsessed/p/2027648213/titanic-s-older-sister-welcomed-home-to-ontario-not-for-scuba-though
• Stone Age Settlement Found Under English Channel
  • http://www.xray-mag.com/content/stone-age-settlement-found-under-english-channel
• Plans Would Expand Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
  • http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/06/24/plans-would-expand-great-lakes-shipwreck-museum/

Some Salvage Photos

• Divers Go To Incredible Lengths To Recover A 16th Century Shipwreck
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/the-process-of-salvaging-a-16th-century-shipwreck-2012-6

Video of the week

• Diver Struck by Propeller Caught on Underwater Video
  • http://www.propellersafety.com/5009/propeller-accident-report/diver-struck-by-propeller-on-underwater-video/

Potentially cool new old gear

Still needs a test diver….

• This 838-pound diving suit is the world’s greatest BioShock cosplay
  • http://io9.com/5921872/this-838+pound-diving-suit-is-the-worlds-greatest-bioshock-cosplay
• SeaOrbiter: Construction to Start on Renewably-Fueled Research Vessel
  • http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/06/sea-orbiter-jacques-rougerie/

We replayed the interview with Sébastien Séb “The Sub” Murats by Denéa Buckingham. There was plenty of news and plenty of scuba diving. We think Mack ditched the last four minutes of the show because he couldn’t handle the bad scuba joke.

Scuba in the News

• Salvage crews start work to refloat Costa Concordia
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47891279/ns/travel-news/
  • http://gcaptain.com/costa-concordia-salvage-plan-revealed/
• Findings of Deep-Sea ‘Alien’ Hunt Revealed
  • http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-baltic-sea-120618.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
• Weather Window | Preserved corpses in Tahoe?
  • http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20120620/COMMUNITY/120629995/1066&ParentProfile=1051
• ‘Hero’ fisherman saves diver
  • http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/25219/
• Massive sinkhole swallows Florida home
  • http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/21/12340572-massive-sinkhole-swallows-florida-home?lite
• Greek Elite Scuba Diving Team Forced to stop singing about ‘glorious Macedonia’
  • http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/21276/46/
• Lens Implants & Scuba Diving
  • http://cataract-surgery-information.blogspot.fr/2012/06/lens-implants-scuba-diving.html
• Dive into women-only group
  • http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/holiday/dive-into-women-only-group-1.96521
• Divers prep for big trip with ‘Scuba Olympics’
  • http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/06/16/divers-prep-big-trip-scuba-olympics

• The French Job
  • http://the-french-job.com/denea-bukingham-blog
• Free diving Austrailia
  • http://freedivingaustralia.com/
• Deeper Blue – website in free diving
  • http://www.deeperblue.com/
• Denéa’s Blog
  • http://www.rabbitearth.com/

22C – 71.6 F

14C – 57.2 F

Jim Schultz and His Pre-dive GoPro Video Camera

Mack, Jim S., and Darrin dive in to the news. Jim explains why you want to have a solid back on your camera and we also talk about the great lake conditions. Yes! We got on Mack’s wreck and there was a Havana dive. To top it off with the bad scuba joke and a picture you won’t believe. Or may hope you don’t see.

Scuba In the News

• Ask Dr Gary: Diving damage minor
  • http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/news/ask-dr-gary-diving-damage-minor/1404232/
•  The French Job
  • http://the-french-job.com/denea-bukingham-blog
  • http://the-french-job.com/denea-bukingham-blog/diving-science-some-definitions
• Treasures found along with junk at lake cleanup in Grayslake – Lake County News-Sun?
  • http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/13037552-418/treasures-found-along-with-junk-at-lake-cleanup-in-grayslake.html
• Rapture of the Deep – Scuba Diving a chapter of History
  • http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/rapture-of-the-deep-%E2%80%93scuba-diving-a-chapter-of-history/
• “Not quite Scuba”
• New secret passages discovered in Carlsbad Caverns
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47801595/ns/technology_and_science-science/
• Dive and find no devil?
  • http://www.deccanherald.com/content/256726/dive-find-no-devil.html
• Fort Myers Beach News – Island Sand Paper
  • http://www.islandsandpaper.com/issue-592.aspx
• Diving right in! Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson don scuba suits for new movie Love Punch
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2159092/Diving-right-Pierce-Brosnan-Emma-Thompson-don-scuba-suits-new-movie-Love-Punch.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc. Enters Booming Recreation Retail Sector With Grand Opening of Brownie’s Dive & Paddle Adventure Center – MarketWatch?
  • http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brownies-marine-group-inc-enters-booming-recreation-retail-sector-with-grand-opening-of-brownies-dive-paddle-adventure-center-2012-05-25

Mack’s Wreck Sub-surface Buoy

Potentially cool scuba gear

• Solar under the sea? U.S. Navy exploring underwater applications | ZDNet?
  • http://m.zdnet.com/blog/green/solar-under-the-sea-us-navy-exploring-underwater-applications/21405
  • http://dvice.com/archives/2012/06/navy-designs-sp.php
• Flying Airplanes Underwater
  • http://www.manufacturing.net/articles/2012/06/flying-airplanes-underwater
• RoboJelly, The Unmanned Underwater Vehicle That Uses Water For Fuel
  • http://singularityhub.com/2012/06/11/ready-robojelly-the-unmanned-underwater-vehicle-that-uses-water-for-fuel/
• OpenROV

• http://openrov.com/profiles/blogs/neemo

Video of the Week

• An Underwater Nightclub That You’ll Wish Was Real
  • http://www.bitrebels.com/entertainment-2/an-underwater-nightclub-that-youll-wish-was-real/

Scuba Book – Underwater Gladiator

• http://www.inspired-training.com/ocean%20gladiator_read_online.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ellyatt

Do Not Look – Swimsuits