Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed

Some Adaptive Scuba Diving - 352

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Original Show Date: 12/21/2017 9:30 PM EST (recorded live)
This week Mack, Kevin and Darrin discuss Adaptive Scuba Diving. Kevin and Mack had the opportunity to assist on some adaptive scuba diving in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Scuba in the news

• Australians Attempt To Break Record For Longest Underwater Chain Of Scuba Divers
  • https://www.deeperblue.com/australians-break-record-longest-underwater-chain-scuba-divers/

• Scuba divers rescue submerged ice fishing shacks
  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/scuba-divers-rescue-submerged-ice-fishing-shacks-1.4459419

• Three Scuba Diving Habits That Helped Me Build My Business
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/celinnedacosta/2017/11/28/three-scuba-diving-habits-that-helped-me-build-my-business/

• Five Surprising Ways Your Christmas Tree Can Give Back Long After the Holidays
  • https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/12/19/five-surprising-ways-your-christmas-tree-give-back-after-holidays-recycle/

• Diver encounters donkey statue off Egyptian coast
  • https://www.upi.com/Scuba-diver-discovers-bizarre-donkey-statue-in-Red-Sea/4411512502329/

• Ancient Biblical city of Corinth destroyed by earthquake 1,400 years ago uncovered in underwater excavations
  • http://strangesounds.org/2017/12/ancient-biblical-city-of-corinth-destroyed-by-earthquake-1400-years-ago-uncovered-in-underwater-excavations.html

• Swarms of miniature robots could map the ocean floor
  • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/swarms-of-miniature-robots-could-map-the-ocean-floor-f7e46b12-3904-441f-b50f-7606f6b0d31b/

• Lost submarine from World War I found after 103-year search
  • http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/ae1-submarine-found-australia/

Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed Episode 134 - Stuff in the water

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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://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
• Another Cave Diving Rescue At Blue Springs
  • 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
• 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://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
• Scientists to test underwater mats to smother Asian clams in Lake Tahoe
  • 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
• Daniel Craig takes underwater naps
  • 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
• Report: Tons of Unexploded Bombs Lying in Coastal Waters
  • 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
• 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.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218705/Cooling-heat-battle-British-soldiers-Afghanistan-learn-scuba-dive-tank-constructed-heart-Camp-Bastion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Potentially cook scuba gear

• Shark migrations studied with underwater robot along Delmarva Peninsula
  • 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
• 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.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218705/Cooling-heat-battle-British-soldiers-Afghanistan-learn-scuba-dive-tank-constructed-heart-Camp-Bastion.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Video of the week

• Divers explore Copper Country mine
  • 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
• Alki Storm Water Outfall off Alki Beach, time-lapse
  • 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

Scuba Obsessed

Scuba Obsessed Episode 66 – Special Guest Clare Wilders of DiveBunnie. The red sea and warm water.

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Darrin and Mac interview a special guest on the show, Clare Wilder of DiveBunnie. Clare share with use her experience as a dive instructor at Sharm el Sheikh in the Red Sea.

She hangs on for the whole show and helps out with Scuba in the news and talks about her dives.

• http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/05/12/business/doc4dcc01429df9b587187858.txt
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/12/3214757.htm?site=sunshine&section=news&date=
• http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/05/12/business/doc4dcc01429df9b587187858.txt

Here are the articles we covered in the news.

• Diving Mall
  • Scuba, sky diving on tap for Winrock
    • http://www.xray-mag.com/content/19th-century-shipwreck-found-borneo
• Clear Waters
  • Iceland scuba diving images gain attention on Mail Online
    • http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/05/12/business/doc4dcc01429df9b587187858.txt
• Still Good Diving
  • Flood recovery campaigns fail to help dive firm
    • http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/12/3214757.htm?site=sunshine&section=news&date=
• Are they there yet?
  • Mussels in Candlewood Lake?
    • http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/05/12/business/doc4dcc01429df9b587187858.txt
• Great Log Books
  • 19th Century Shipwreck found off Borneo
    • http://www.xray-mag.com/content/19th-century-shipwreck-found-borneo
• No Non-resident Diving?
  • Scuba diving may be restricted to Big Bay Point
    • http://m.innisfilscope.com/node/33042
• Looking for the Source
  • Scuba diver sets new depth record exploring New Zealand cave
    • http://i.gadling.com/2011/05/08/scuba-diver-sets-new-depth-record-exploring-new-zealand-cave/
• Sad Bus
  • Divers find wreck thought to be lost tour bus
    • http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/ilan/2011/05/12/302065/Divers-find.htm

Some Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

• Dive Cam Goes HD
  • http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8411479.htm

Last week Mac dove Paw Paw Lake, Indian Lake and Pipestone Lake. Darrin dove Lake Michigan for a site survey. Clare dove in the Red Sea with some students. She just missed out on a whale shark. Fish activity is increasing.

The bad scuba joke.... this time it is political....

Scuba Obsessed

Episode 05 - Talking Tech Diving with Bob

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Special Guest Bob talked about tech diving, wreck diving and rebreathers.

We also covered the last week of scuba in the news.

• Bonaire Scuba Diving resort puts BOUNTY on invasive lionfish threatening the islands reefs Mich.
• House Republicans to ask U.S. Supreme Court to protect Great Lakes from Asian carp
• Red Sea liveaboards destroyed by blaze
• MARES scuba diving company announces safety recall of NEMO air dive computer
• Cold water temperatures causing coral bleaching in popular reefs in South Florida and the Keys
• New Rebreather Diver Training Organization looks to move into North American Market

• and underwater plane called “The Nymph

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