11
Jul

500 - Is Maritime Cannibalism Obsolete?

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500 - Is Maritime Cannibalism Obsolete?
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Thank you to everyone who has supported the show as we finish our 500th full episode. 

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Introduction 

Talk about a party and our normal weather talk. Darrin is updating the recording studio. What is on the wall? We have a lot of random squirrel moments. 

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Scuba In the News

(10:15)

Backup plan for Golden Ray salvage effort includes charge to blast steel

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/backup-plan-for-golden-ray-salvage-effort-includes-charge-to-blast-steel/article_38af15fd-55e5-571c-b099-eb098033fb2d.html


(14:16)

No OSHA probe of diver who died in farm digester.

https://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/no-osha-probe-of-diver-who-died-in-farm-digester-questions-raised-about-diver-s/article_48ae8ce8-e5c2-5d07-a3cf-305fa26870e0.html

(24:45)

Livestreaming is hard. Darrin talks podcast and video workflow. Please support us any way you can. We don’t make money from YouTube.

https://patreon.com/scubaobsessed & https://scubaobsessed.com

We will be getting back to having guest on the program. Talk about host migration and website update. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/c/scubaobsessed


(29:19)

Scuba divers rescued by ferry crews near Edmonds terminal

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/scuba-divers-rescued-by-ferry-crews-near-edmonds-terminal/DKBT5OVOHZAJTMAVQVTKX7ZCEM/


(33:18)

British minister claims technology makes maritime cannibalism obsolete

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/maritime_cannibalism_obsolete/


(44:31)

The treasure inside beer lost in a shipwreck 120 years ago

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210622-how-shipwrecked-yeasts-could-change-the-taste-of-your-beer


(52:50)

iBubble automated marine drone follows and films a diver’s every move

(59:50) 

Attorney General won’t file charges in Glacier Park Scuba Death

https://hungryhorsenews.com/news/2021/jun/23/attorney-general-wont-file-charges-glacier-park-sc/

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End of Scuba in the news

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Recent diving… Damn Pandemic. 

New divers in the area posting in the Mud (Michigan Underwater Divers) Club Page. 

You don’t have to go deep to have a good dive. Get your comfort at shallow depths.  Talk about deep wreck that encourages the need for technical diver training.  

(1:18:30)

Seeing people dive all over. Mud Club is getting out and doing some dives. 

“I love me a good wreck dive.” - Darrin

“A good wreck dive is like touching time. “ - Darrin

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Need to get out diving.

Go out there and get wet. Life it too short. 

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Mack’s Dive Safety Story

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If in-person MUD club meeting. Deciding on t-shirts. 

(1:46:00)

Lawn mowing shoes.

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Thank you for your support!

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Some podcast stats. 

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Sharing some dive photos and videos. Derek’s dueling squid photos. NC-17. Mack’s zoo story. 

(1:57:50)

Bad Scuba Jokes and Bad other jokes. Not episode 500 worthy. At 500 episodes you should know better. 

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Outro

Intro and Outro Dive Video curtesy of Eric Rohloff

Intro & Outro Music  

Music “Tornado” by Wintergatan

This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net

Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

27
Oct

Scuba Obsessed Episode 133 take 2 w/outtakes - Cooper River and Road Trips

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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

Potentially cool gear

Photo of the week

Videos of the week!

  • Tiger Beach, Bahamas 2011
Here is one for you if you love Lemon and Tiger Sharks up close. Frazier Nivens and Ocean Imaging recoded this at Tiger Beach, Bahamas. The video was orginally show with a RED CineX and then converted to H264 720HD. I would love to see the original video.
Thanks go out to Scotty Gray for recommending this video. “Great footage from a great bucket list dive. Tiger Beach Bahamas.”
  • Skyfall Videoblog “Underwater”
Here is a behind the scenes video for the new James Bond Movie Skyfall. They are not a sponser but we would be happy to take a bucket of money. This could be the best movie for a underwater scuba fight action since Thunderball.

 

30
Sep

Scuba Obsessed Episode 132 - Severed Air, Finger Fish Food and Underwater

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http://divevideos.scubaobsessed.com/dakuwaqas-garden-underwater-footage-from-fija-tonga/ 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

Potentially cool gear

Videos of the week!

 

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.

 

 

15
Sep

Scuba Obsessed Episode 130 - 20 Miles, 10,000 Logged Dives and Great Wall Diving

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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

Other Related News

 

Photos of the Week

Scuba Obsessed Videos

Potential Cool Scuba Gear

 

31
Aug

Scuba Obsessed Episode 128 - Keeping it clear and Horseshoe Crab

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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

Video of the week

29
Aug

Scuba Obsessed Episode 127 - Money for wrecks, wreck hunts and future wreck divers.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/06/f-franklin-search-erebus-terror-arctic.html

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

Potentiall cool Scuba Gear

  • http://www.heroarmor.com/

Divevideo of the week

 

 

19
Aug

Scuba Obsessed Episode 126 - Low vis and high current on a shipwreck with lessons learned

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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://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018894642_sketcher11.html
  • Cerritos Sheriff's Detective Tracks Down Burglar Who Stole $5,000+ of Scuba Diving Gear
    • http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018894642_sketcher11.html
  • Great Lakes Underwater Presents Historic Weather, Shipwrecks, Scuba & Paddlers Program
    • http://madisoncountycourier.com/beyond-our-borders/33791/
  • Cavern and Cave Diving
    • http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018894642_sketcher11.html
  • Watertown teen chosen to participate in scuba diving expedition
    • http://www.edmondswa.gov/services/education/discovery-programs/edmonds-underwater-park.html
  • Seattle Sketcher | Scuba diving in Puget Sound
    • http://www.edmondswa.gov/services/education/discovery-programs/edmonds-underwater-park.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://venturebeat.com/2012/08/12/mini-underwater-sub-raises-111k-for-amateur-ocean-exploration/

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://venturebeat.com/2012/08/12/mini-underwater-sub-raises-111k-for-amateur-ocean-exploration/

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".
    • http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/12/mini-underwater-sub-raises-111k-for-amateur-ocean-exploration/
  • The Ontario
    • http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/12/mini-underwater-sub-raises-111k-for-amateur-ocean-exploration/
11
Aug

Scuba Obsessed Episode 125 - Bikini Dive Flags and Escargot

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Gull Lake

Gull Lake

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?
  • 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
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Pictures of the week

  • Tony Wu - Natural Ice Scupture
    • http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20120803/CWS03/308030183/Divepoint-gives-people-disabilities-kayak-rides

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
29
Jul

Scuba Obsessed Episode 123 - Plenty of paddlefish

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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.oceantechnologysystems.com/

Scuba in the News

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

North Point Quarry Opening

Dave talks about setting up the new North Point Quarry.

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

Photo of the week

Video of the Week

 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.

Michigan City Breakwater Barrier Indiana

11
Feb

Scuba Obsessed Episode 102 - A lot of people around a big fish.

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Photo Credit - Photomatt28 - Matthew Paulson - Some rights reserved

Mack and Darrin discuss the scuba happenings going on in the world. It sure seemed like a shark and whale heavy week.

Scuba in the news

  • Scuba-diving dad from Whitefield left fighting for life after being hit by boat's propeller in Egypt | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk?
    • http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Scuba-Diver-Rescues-Killer-Whale-off-New-Zealand-138931244.html
  • Caribbean box jellyfish now thriving in southern Florida
    • http://smithsonianscience.org/2012/02/caribbean-box-jellyfish-now-thriving-in-southern-florida/
  • Florida's Exclusive Underwater Burial Ground
    • http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/24571-1
  • Lady Diver Magazine
    • http://www.ladydivermagazine.com/ladydivermagazine/cover7_11_page.html.html
  • Strange Life Found in Underwater Caves
    • http://news.discovery.com/earth/weird-blue-hole-life-120207.html
  • Russian drillers reach huge lake below Antarctica
    • http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/russia-subglacial-lake-antarctica-drilling/1
  • Google Earth update erases underwater 'Atlantis'
    • http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/06/google-earth-update-erases-underwater-atlantis-error/
  • Fishermen reel in shark the size of a school bus
    • http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10340172-fishermen-reel-in-shark-the-size-of-a-school-bus
  • Diver Rescues Killer Whale | News | English?
    • http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Scuba-Diver-Rescues-Killer-Whale-off-New-Zealand-138931244.html
  • Diver's close encounter with great white
    • http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6380047/Divers-close-encounter-with-great-white
  • Scuba divers share tea party with sharks in Sea Life London Aquarium - Mirror Online?
    • http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scuba-divers-share-tea-party-679781
  • LUX* Maldives
    • http://euro-divers.com/scuba-diving-in-maldives/lux-maldives/fluo-night-dives/

Is this cool scuba gear

  • Who made you Judge Judy and Executioner? - The Trial of the Split Fin
    • http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/24571-1

Video of the week

  • The creepiest video of coral you'll ever watch?
    • http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scuba-divers-share-tea-party-679781
21
Jan

Scuba Obsessed Episode 99 - It counts as an ice dive and he measures everything.

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Mack and Darrin at Paw Paw Lake

Tara, Dave and Darrin cover scuba in the news including all these fresh new shipwrecks. There is also a little bit about ice diving with thin ice. Make sure you make next week live for episode 100.

Scuba In the News

Potentially Cool Gear

Video of the week

Blog Posts

  • HOW TO: Bungee in my Pocket
    • http://iarediver.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-got-one-hand-in-my-pocket-and-other.htm

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23
Dec

Scuba Obsessed Episode 95 - Maybe Size Does Matter

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Mack with Milk Bottle at Singer Lake

Mack with Milk Bottle at Singer Lake

Mac and Darrin cover artificial reefs and underwater buildings in the news. There a couple of kickstart projects they talk about. There was also time to get a dive in. If you are brave you can hang on for the bad scuba joke of the week.

Head on over here for the Reindeer Games Photos on the MUD Club site.  http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Jasper-Dairy-St.-Joseph-MI.jpg

Here is a close up of the bottle Mac is holding.   http://mudclub.scubaobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Jasper-Dairy-St.-Joseph-MI.jpg

Scuba from the News

http://subseaworldnews.com/2011/12/19/new-zealand-sharks-damage-underwater-equipment-used-in-rena-recovery/ – This is our news feed in an article format. There are some stories here we don’t cover in the show. Updated most days.

Potentially Cool Scuba Gear

http://subseaworldnews.com/2011/12/19/new-zealand-sharks-damage-underwater-equipment-used-in-rena-recovery/

Video of the week

 

 

4
Nov

88 - Scuba Obsessed Netcast - Scuba Slaughter! Will no one think of the Pumpkins?!?

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Kirk And JimDarrin and Mac talk about Scuba diving, Scuba in the News and a tad bit about DEMA.

Oh... and that bad scuba joke of the week.

DEMA and scuba product announcements

28
Oct

87 - Scuba Obsessed Netcast - Is Scuba Diving a real sport?

scuba footballThis week Clare, Mac and Darrin discuss the news, debate if Scuba Diving is a real sport and wonder who is really a diver.

Thank you to everyone that showed up in the chat room. We had a great group in there! Sorry about the last 5 minutes with TalkShoe.

videos of the week

What is a Sport? What Isn't?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45056443/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001

show us your dive gear! #scubagearchallenge

24
Sep

Scuba Obsessed Episode 83 – Playing in the gravel

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Clare, Mac and Darrin talk about Scuba of course. Plenty of scuba news and diving. Scuba Tank Blast followup, stop "tourists", longest fresh water scuba dive, and scuba heals.

Followup again

Potentially cool scuba gear