Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed

A Little Trashed - A Great Ecology Dive - 301

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Original Show Date: 10/6/2016 9:00 PM EST (recorded live)

Scuba in the News

• Air Liquide in exclusive talks to sell Aqua Lung
  • http://www.marketwatch.com/story/air-liquide-in-exclusive-talks-to-sell-aqua-lung-2016-10-05

• 67 Year-Old Danish Man Sets Record for Fastest Underwater Crossing
  • http://californiadiver.com/67-year-old-danish-man-sets-record-for-fastest-underwater-crossing-930/

• World's Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered in Czech Republic's Hranice Abyss
  • http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/29527/20161002/worlds-deepest-underwater-cave-discovered-czech-republic.htm

• Shipwreck from 1939 uncovered off Orleans
  • https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/04/shipwreck-from-uncovered-off-orleans/9izgE0WsSeSoR8nRBmCeXO/story.html

• Yeast Rescued From 220-Year-Old Shipwreck, Put to Work Making Beer
  • http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yeast-rescued-from-220-year-old-shipwreck-put-to-work-making-beer

Potentially Cool New Gear

• GoPro launches Hero5, Karma drone
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/gopro-launches-hero5-karma-drone/

• Nikon announces a line of rugged action cameras
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nikon-announces-a-line-of-rugged-action-cameras/

• AAK 180 DIVING MASK
  • https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aak-180-diving-mask-new-design#/

Scuba Obsessed

Cascading Updates - 300

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Original Show Date: 09/29/2016 9:00 PM EST (recorded live)

This week Mack, Jim, Kevin and Darrin talk about past and future river dives.

Scuba in the News

• Archaeologists Confirm Shipwreck is Franklin's HMS Terror
  • http://www.archaeology.org/news/4870-160927-canada-franklin-terror

• MP encourages more people to take up scuba diving
  • http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/14772854.MP_encourages_more_people_to_take_up_scuba_diving/?ref=rss

• Two hundred divers to form underwater human chain in Guinness attempt
  • http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/26/two-hundred-divers-form-underwater-human-chain-guinness-attempt/

• Longford scuba divers to benefit from tractor run
  • http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/216852/longford-scuba-divers-to-benefit-from-tractor-run.html

• Diving to protect Lake Tahoe
  • http://thetahoeweekly.com/2016/09/beneath-big-blue-%C2%B7-diving-protect-lake-tahoe/

• How a dump site in Key Largo became an aquatic preserve
  • http://www.bradenton.com/news/state/florida/article104185766.html

• Jacques Cousteau's Grandson Is 3D Printing Coral Reefs
  • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/jacques-cousteaus-grandson-3d-printing-coral-reefs-180960593/

• Whisky found on shipwreck from 1895 set to sell for small fortune at auction
  • http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/whisky-found-shipwreck-1895-set-8942499

• When it comes to shipwrecks raised off the seafloor, Peter Isotalo may be Wikipedia's resident aficionado
  • https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/27/peter-isotalo-vasa-mary-rose/

• How to become a Commercial Diver?
  • https://www.divein.com/guide/how-i-got-into-commercial-diving/

Photo of the week

• Scuba divers 'eaten alive' by giant fish
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3807985/Now-s-fish-supper-Scuba-divers-create-amazing-optical-illusion-eaten-alive-giant-Napoleon-Wrasse.html

Video

• Not Sure this would be in the Marketing Brochure. Giant shark gets terrifyingly close to divers and poos all over them
  • http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/547490/Giant-shark-divers-cage-poo-scary

• Watch This Scuba Diver Decimate The Lionfish Population With A Glock 17 [VIDEO]
  • http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/23/watch-this-scuba-diver-decimate-the-lionfish-population-with-a-glock-17-video/

Potentially Cool New Gear

• Makers of Roomba Vacuum Create "Killer" Robot to Fight Invasive Species
  • http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2016/09/makers-roomba-vacuum-create-killer-robot-fight-invasive-species

• Boatsetter helps scuba divers reach their favorite underwater locations Miami's Community News
  • http://communitynewspapers.com/featured/boatsetter-helps-scuba-divers-reach-favorite-underwater-locations/

• Amsterdam to test autonomous boats
  • http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/09/20/amsterdam-to-test-autonomous-boats.html

• Fathom One
  • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1359605477/fathom-one-the-affordable-modular-hd-underwater-dr

• GoPro launches Hero5, Karma drone
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/gopro-launches-hero5-karma-drone/

• Nikon announces a line of rugged action cameras
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nikon-announces-a-line-of-rugged-action-cameras/

Scuba Obsessed

Involuntary Muscles and the E.B. Ward - 299

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Original Show Date: 09/22/2016 9:00 PM EST (recorded live)

Kevin, Jim, and Darrin get together tonight to talk about some more scuba diving. Jim fills us in on his dive on the E.B. Ward. Everyone got wet this week.

Scuba in the News

• Manta ray tour rule proposals would require permit, limit site access
  • http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/manta-ray-tour-rule-proposals-would-require-permit-limit-site-access

• Man Loses Testicles While Trying to 'Fill Scuba Tank with Weed Smoke’ : snopes.com
  • http://www.snopes.com/man-loses-testicles-while-trying-to-fill-scuba-tank-with-weed-smoke/

• Scuba Gear in Boat
  • http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47874:california-outdoors-packing-out-game-nontraditional-measurement-devices-sale-of-valley-quail-during-offseason&catid=44:recreation&Itemid=176

• West Marine will offer relaunched scuba-gear brand
  • http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/2016/09/west-marine-will-offer-relaunched-scuba-gear-brand/

• Divers stage underwater sword fight for Pirate Week at aquarium
  • http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2016/09/underwater_sword_fight_highlig.html

• U.S. flag, bong, TV among 6,000 pounds of junk found in Dana Point Harbor cleanup
  • http://www.ocregister.com/articles/find-729440-harbor-divers.html

• ‘Looking at a time capsule’: Underwater video shows HMS Terror shipwreck
  • http://globalnews.ca/news/2941416/looking-at-a-time-capsule-underwater-video-shows-hms-terror-shipwreck/

• Arctic Shipwreck May Be Doomed 19th-Century HMS Terror
  • http://www.livescience.com/56110-doomed-shipwreck-hms-terror-possibly-found.html

• Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck
  • http://www.nature.com/news/human-skeleton-found-on-famed-antikythera-shipwreck-1.20632

• Remarkably intact 1897 shipwreck discovered in Lake Superior
  • http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/14/remarkably-intact-1897-shipwreck-discovered-in-lake-superior/

• Missing 1800s shipwreck found at the bottom of Lake Superior
  • http://www.startribune.com/missing-1800s-shipwreck-found-at-the-bottom-of-lake-superior/393489211/

Video

• Not Sure this would be in the Marketing Brochure. Giant shark gets terrifyingly close to divers and poos all over them
  • http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/547490/Giant-shark-divers-cage-poo-scary

Potentially Cool New Gear

• Boatsetter helps scuba divers reach their favorite underwater locations Miami's Community News
  • http://communitynewspapers.com/featured/boatsetter-helps-scuba-divers-reach-favorite-underwater-locations/

• Amsterdam to test autonomous boats
  • http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/09/20/amsterdam-to-test-autonomous-boats.html

• Fathom One
  • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1359605477/fathom-one-the-affordable-modular-hd-underwater-dr

• GoPro launches Hero5, Karma drone
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/gopro-launches-hero5-karma-drone/

• Nikon announces a line of rugged action cameras
  • http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nikon-announces-a-line-of-rugged-action-cameras/