The Great Dive Podcast

The Great Dive Podcast

Grab your logbooks and gather around as James and Brando chat about your favorite subject and theirs, scuba diving. Each episode, these guys will share with each other an interesting and relevant story, tale, adventure or experience from under, in or on the water. It’s just like hanging out with a couple of cool buddies at the dive shop, on the dock or at the pub. Listen, learn and have fun with James Mott and Brandon Schwartz on The Great Dive Podcast. See and experience more at thegreatdivepodcast.com

Episodes

Episode 440-Divemastering the Ego

December 5, 2025 • 57 mins
Join the boys this week as they examine an 'I Learned About Diving from That' article that tells the tale of what a Divemaster Candidate learned about his ego and the trouble that may come from letting it take hold of you and actually believing what it's telling you. Listen to the deadly incident and one diver's account of a real life encounter with the deadly regulator snatching rocks of the Caribbean!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 439 - Public Safety DIving for Advanced Beginners

November 28, 2025 • 87 mins
This week the boys finish their discussion about a Public Safety Diving fatality.
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Episode 438 - Public Safety Diving For Beginners

November 21, 2025 • 65 mins
This week the boys discuss public safety diving. A topic sparked by a recent social media post detailing the death of a public safety diver during a training evolution. Is this a common occurrence? Do most issues and incidents go unreported if there is no fatality or injury? What does have to do with recreational scuba? All good questions plus many more come up when discussing this topic and especially this particular incident. Hav...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 437 Alotar

November 14, 2025 • 62 mins
The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 437 Alotar by Brando & James
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Episode 436- The Gales of November

November 7, 2025 • 63 mins
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when Jamesy and Brando turn the minutes to hours? Find out this week as the boys recant the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of it's tragic demise. Have a listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 435 - Haloween 2025

October 31, 2025 • 63 mins
Get your tricks and treats out for another haunting episode of TGDP Halloween Spooktacular. This year the boys bubble up Brando’s hot tub with tales of ghosts, ghouls, and sea fiends from out of the deep.
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 434 - Safety First

October 24, 2025 • 63 mins
This week the boys diving in a companion journal to AquaCorps called Technical Diver. They compare this 1992 article by Michael Menduno with the state of the scuba world today. "Safety is the first priority. This is not recreational diving." That is what this episode of The Great Dive Podcast is all about.
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Episode 433 - Michael Menduno In Depth and Under Pressure

October 17, 2025 • 55 mins
There's only one way to follow up that great interview with Rachel Lance, and that's with the boys paying tribute to the diving community's great ambassador and friend, Michael Menduno. Ol' Jamesy and Brando pull out aquaCORPS magazine, Issue Number One and reflect on Michael's very first article called "Under Pressure". Have a listen!
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Episode 432 - Oxygen 8 Rachel Lance Interview

October 10, 2025 • 96 mins
Join your buddies, James and Brando as they sit down and talk with Rachel Lance. She is the author of Chamber Divers, the story about J.B.S. Haldane and other scientists who changed special operations warfare during WWII. The story is fascinating and everything you think you know about nitrox and oxygen with diving might change after this episode. You can get her book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671553/chamber-di...
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Episode 431 - Oxygen 7

October 3, 2025 • 63 mins
This week the boys are back with Kenneth Donald and his Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit. At 30 years old and knowing virtually nothing about diving underwater, he was given carte blanche authority to do whatever he wanted. The most important mission, a cool name.
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Episode 430 - Oxygen 6

September 26, 2025 • 64 mins
Momma Always said breathing oxygen at a higher partial pressure than 1.6 was like a box of chocolates.... ya neva know what ya gonna git... Join the boys this week as they continue their discussion on oxygen and it's effect on the diver. This week they look into Kenneth Donald and his book, "Oxygen and the Diver". Find out how the diving community came to the conclusion that breathing oxygen at higher than a 1.6ppO2 is really unpr...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 429 - Oxygen 5

September 19, 2025 • 60 mins
In this episode, the boys introduce us to a British physician named Kenneth Donald. Around WWII time, most of the oxygen studies were focused on the medical uses for it. However underwater military operations uncovered a new threat to the navy divers. Oxygen Poisoning.
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Episode 428 - Oxygen 4

September 12, 2025 • 55 mins
What do the acronyms ConVENTID, VENTID and ASS all have in common? Well, have a listen and find out as the boys continue their journey down Highway O2 while avoiding the pitfalls of oxygen Toxicity. Have A Listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 427 - Oxygen 3

August 22, 2025 • 53 mins
This week the boys dive deeper into oxygen breathing at depth.
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Episode 426 - Oxygen 2

August 15, 2025 • 55 mins
Shut that oxygen window!! It's getting hyperoxic in here! The boys continue their discussion of Oxygen and the role it plays in the diver's physiology!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 425 - Oxygen 1

August 8, 2025 • 59 mins
The boys sit down and start a conversation about oxygen.
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Episode 424-The Divers Bill of Rights

August 1, 2025 • 58 mins
BOO-YAH! TGDP is back to the grind and we're getting back in the groove with a cool article from 1998 entitled "The Divers Bill of Rights". Do we have rights as a diver? Do we have responsibilities as a diver? Is it maybe both? Have a listen and find out!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 423 - Summer Vacation

July 25, 2025 • 49 mins
The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 423 - Summer Vacation by Brando & James
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Episode 422- Valerie Taylor, Jaws, and The Meaning of Life

June 27, 2025 • 42 mins
This week the boys continue their celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer blockbuster movie "Jaws"!! While examining the vital role Valerie Taylor played in obtaining the stunning film footage of much of the real shark action used in the making of Jaws, the boys learn of her decision to devote much of her life to helping reverse the "sharkphobia" that was created by the movie itself. This one get's deep and has me wonderi...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 421 - Jaws50

June 19, 2025 • 45 mins
Jamesy and Brando celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie. Tune in as the boys talk about sharks, their favorite parts, and differences between the book and the movie.
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