Episodes

In Episode 10, we have the first of our fabulous co-host interviews. This week we have Linden Wolbert (or Mermaid Linden as a lot of us know her) with an interview with Paul De Gelder - someone with an incredible life story. Paul’s story started in the Australian Army Airborne before becoming a Navy bomb disposal expert then an encounter with a bull shark in 2009 changed his life forever as he lost an arm and a leg in the shark attack. You’d think losing an arm and a leg might generate some ani...

In Episode 9, we have an interview with Kirk Krack - one of the most prolific and innovative trailblazers in diving. For the last 20-plus years, he has helped develop and codify the foundations of modern freediving through his company Performance Freediving International. He has also been tapped by Hollywood to help bring some of the biggest blockbusters to life by training the film stars to hold their breath and be able to freedive including the primary cast of the upcoming Avatar 2 film. In t...

In Episode 8, we have an interview with David Concannon - a dive lawyer, former general counsel for the explorer club and now owns a company that specializes in the business of exploration. He’s dived some of the most famous wrecks in the world, recovered the apollo space mission rockets, counts legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Scott Carpenter as his dive buddies and although he doesn’t know it yet is now my new best friend! He talks to us about one of the 4 dives he’s done to the iconic wre...

In Episode 7, we find out about how to set a freediving World Record by accident, deep connections forged on the reef before heading off to boarding school and how to make the most of your liveaboard diving trip. We have an interview with Tanya Streeter - a mother, world champion freediver, TV personality, and environmentalist - not necessarily in that order. She talks to us about some of her pioneering freediving world records including setting one by accident, and how she developed her deep c...

In Episode 6, we talk sea lions, humpback whales, bringing Star Wars characters to life, and some powerful connections with the oceans. We have an interview with Luke Inman - underwater photographer, filmmaker, and author. He talks to us about what it's like diving with the Sea Lions in La Paz, Mexico - where he is based - an amazing encounter with a humpback whale and what part he played in bringing to life the most hated star wars character of all time. Then we hear from Tanya Streeter, the ...

In Episode 5, we've got some epic freediving stories to listen to. We have an interview with William Trubridge - 18x World Record holder and multiple world champion Freediver. He talks to us about what drove him to push him in ways that push the boundaries of what humans can do underwater. Then we hear from Kirk Krack, pioneering freediving educator and Hollywood freediving trainer who’s worked on films such as Mission Impossible, and the upcoming Avatar sequels. He gives us some advice on how...

In Episode Four, we kick off with host Stephan Whelan reflecting on the first month of the podcast, followed by our weekly news round-up Then we have an interview with Paul Toomer - former band drummer, metalhead, tattoo fundamentalist, instructor trainer, and now president of diving agency RAID joins us to talk about what it is like to be a maverick in the diving industry from day 1. Then we hear from Aron Arngrimsson - who dives some of the world's most spectacular and challenging wreck dive...

In Episode Three, we first hear from Stephan Whelan, founder of DeeperBlue.com and Tec Clark, the Scuba Guru and freediver about what we can expect as we all start to contemplate getting back in the water. Then we have an interview with Dawn Kernagis, a research scientist in the human performance extreme environments arena who tells us what it is like working with the likes of freedivers, special operations military divers, commercial divers as well as astronauts. Then we hear from underwater ...

In Episode Two we hear from Stephan Whelan, founder of DeeperBlue.com and Michael Menduno, Dive journalist and author as they have a candid discussion of their recent Op-Ed "The Day Diving Stood Still" and they share their assessment of where the Scuba and Freediving world are now under Coronavirus. Then we have an interview with underwater filmmaker David Diley who discusses some incredible stories from the making of his seminal film, "Of Shark And Man". Then we hear from freediving legend Wi...

Welcome to the DeeperBlue Podcast! Scuba Diving, Freediving, Dive Travel, and Ocean Advocacy: the DeeperBlue Podcast is your weekly guide to everything happening around the world… underwater. In Episode One we hear from Stephan Whelan, founder of DeeperBlue.com and he shares a bit about what we will find in the upcoming season. Then we have an interview with Director and Producer Hugh Pearson who talks about his life filming underwater on such shows as "Blue Planet 2" for the BBC and "Our Plan...

Scuba Diving, Freediving, Dive Travel, and Ocean Advocacy: the DeeperBlue Podcast is your weekly guide to everything happening around the world… underwater. We’ll cover all the latest underwater news, trends, equipment, and events happening all around the world. We’ll talk to THE most interesting people in the dive world, from world-famous underwater pioneers to fearless modern explorers. We’ll discuss the latest in diving innovations from the people who created them… athletes pushing the limi...