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 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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The Great Dive Podcast-Episode 420- Shark Attack!?

June 13, 2025 • 55 mins
This episode the boys kick off shark quarter with a Lessons For Life tale of a near death shark attack.... well, almost... well... nobody died.... and no one was attacked... but it was nearly fatal! Find out who, what,why, and how in this week's episode of The Great Shark Podcast...er.. I mean The Great Dive Podcast!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 419 - Never Too Shallow

June 6, 2025 • 49 mins
Did you know that you can drown in only a teaspoon of water? That’s right. That’s why Brando doesn’t have any teaspoons in his house. Look out people. TGDP is back to their old shenanigans again. We are partying like it’s 1999, because it is this week. Tune in and join us for this little dive that is the total opposite of our Dave Shaw series… or is it?
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Episode 418- Dave Shaw The Final Chapter

May 29, 2025 • 63 mins
FINALLY!!! It"s the end! Join us for the recap of the Dave Shaw story...!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 417 - Dave Didnt Come Back

May 23, 2025 • 81 mins
This week we finally make it to Dave Shaw's last dive. Unfortunately, Dave does not come back. It's a sad story but offers all of us divers many lessons to learn from.
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Episode 416-That's Diving Mate

May 16, 2025 • 58 mins
What do you say when a diving project goes from bad to worse? I'll tell ya what I say... That's Diving mate! Join the boys as they continue to unwind the many little stories that is The Dave Shaw Story.
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The Great Dive Podcast - Dave Shaw 7 That's Diving

May 9, 2025 • 69 mins
This week the boys dive into Dave Shaw’s last dive. Risking your own life to do a world record dive is not as simple as it may seem, and it involves the lives and safety of many others. A team of divers, support divers, safety teams, medical team, a surface team. All of these need to come together, and all of them are at risk. But hey, That’s Diving.
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Episode 414-Dave Shaw Part VI And So It Continues

May 2, 2025 • 82 mins
Join us as we continue the saga of Dave Shaw and his fatal dive to 270 meters at Boesmansgat in South Africa!
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Episode 413-Dave Shaw Part V Synchronicity And The Diver

April 25, 2025 • 72 mins
What do deep cave dives, Mr T, the law, and synchronicity have in common? Find out in this weeks episode as the boys continue their deep dive into the continuing saga of the Dave Shaw Story! Have A Listen!!
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TGDP - Episode 412 - Dave Shaw IV.5 Quote Unquote

April 18, 2025 • 77 mins
James and Brando discuss a recent listener email regarding Cave Diving Speed Limits that were inspired by Episode 409. As we get deeper into the Dave Shaw story we see how his progress looks a lot like many divers’ journeys. What can we learn from Dave’s story and others? The boys try to answer the philosophical questions around Bushmans’s Hole.
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Episode 411-Dave Shaw IV Send Nudes

April 11, 2025 • 49 mins
We're talking about Nudibranchs you dirty minded listeners! In recognition of Testicular cancer awareness month, we've joined our sole corporate sponsor, Manscaped, in their efforts to raise awareness of Testicular cancer as well as Nudibranchs. What does this have to do with Dave Shaw's depth record story? Maybe nothing... maybe everything! But you won't find out unless you listen to Part IV of our deep dive into the Dave Shaw sto...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 410 - David Shaw 3 Batman and Robin

April 3, 2025 • 49 mins
Holy Logbooks, Batman! We are into April and still on Cave Month. This week, Dave breaks the Inspiration in over 180 Meters, not feet, of water. We are getting deeper, we are getting new machines, we are getting bent…. But nothing will stop us from the world records we are going to set in Bushman’s Hole.
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Episode 409-Like A Rhinestone Diver (Dave Shaw Part 2)

March 26, 2025 • 51 mins
Join the boys as they continue their deep dive into the events surrounding Dave Shaw's fatal last dive!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 408 - David Shaw 1

March 20, 2025 • 62 mins
Welcome back to TGDP International Cave Month. This week the boys finally get into the subject of this series, David Shaw. In roughly 5 years, Shaw traveled the world earning advanced diving certifications and filling his logbook with almost 300 dives. Soon he will try to hit that number 300 in depth, in meters, in a cave.
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The Great Dive Podcast - Epsisoe 407 - Deon Dreyer

March 6, 2025 • 81 mins
This week the boys get into a discussion about the hazards of diving. Hazards that should not be there with certification cards, log books, or mentors but somehow we seem to still have tragedies like the one discussed here about Deon Dreyer.
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Episode 406 - Boesmansgat Dives From Sheck's Journal And Nuno's Book

February 27, 2025 • 72 mins
Join the boys as they continue this deep dive into the world of deep cave diving. This epsiode centers on the dives conducted by Sheck Exley and Nuno Gomes in the Boesmansgat cave in South Africa. Reading through Sheck's personal journey detailing this adventure and his own accounts of the dives down into the 800 and 900 feet range of depth. And then to Nuno's own accounts of the same dives from his book. Have a listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 405 - Ariadne's Thread

February 20, 2025 • 71 mins
To get to the bottom of Bushman’s Hole and find out what happened to David Shaw, we first need to go back in time and learn a little more about this area of South Africa. This area known as the Cradle of Humankind has many caves, and with caves come cave tragedies.
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Episode 404-A Case Study of Respiratory Failure During Cave Dive

February 12, 2025 • 67 mins
Cave Week 2025 continues with this episode discussing a case study of a cave diving fatality. The incident involves an extremely deep cave dive on a rebreather with respiratory failure! Listen in as the boys discuss the details of what lead to this tragic dive! Have a listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 403 - Lessons From The Cave

February 6, 2025 • 56 mins
TGDP International Cave Diving Month is back. This week we start off the series with a little lesson from the cave, we learn what a cave is and also what a cave is not.
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