DeeperBlue Podcast

DeeperBlue Podcast

The award-winning DeeperBlue Podcast is your weekly guide to everything happening around the world… underwater. Every Sunday we’ll cover all the latest news and events about Scuba, Freediving, Dive Travel, and the Oceans.

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September 27, 2026 • 1 min

Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday.

This week:

One of the volunteer divers who helped bring twelve boys and their football coach out of Thailand's Tham Luang cave in 2018, Canadian technical diver Erik Brown, has died at 44.

Six more countries ratified the High Seas Treaty at the UN this week, taking the total t...

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Surface Interval is our new weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday.

This week:

A freediving instructor trainer is held in Sorong after a video showed a diver spearing a critically endangered hawksbill inside a Raja Ampat no-take zone. Indonesian instructors traced his movements and immigration stopped him at the boarding gate. AIDA has su...

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September 22, 2026 • 50 secs

Every week something happens underwater that you should know about. And every week, most of it passes you by.

Surface Interval is our answer to that. Five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel, and the ocean itself.

DeeperBlue has covered this beat since 1996. Thirty years of reading every competition result, every recall notice, every court filing, so you don't have to.

Records broken. Gear ...

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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 10 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then Stephan speaks with Isaac "Shrek" Daly - founder of the Noob Spearo podcast.  They discuss his journey into Scuba Diving, Freediving, and t...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 9 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then co-host Linden Wolbert speaks with the marine filmmaker, film director, and cinematographer Bob Talbot.  They discuss his profound connectio...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 8 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then producer Jason speaks with Marine Biologist, Shark Conservationist, and founder of non-profit Sharks4Kids Jillian Morris.  They discuss how ...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 7 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then host Stephan speaks with underwater journalist, magazine editor, and dive show organizer Mark Evans.  They discuss how he became one a divin...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 6 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then co-host Linden Wolbert speaks with real-life siren and freediving instructor Ilaria Molinari.  They discuss how you go from a multi-national...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 5 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with producer Jason Elias and co-host Mehgan Heany-Grier .
  • Then co-host Linden Wolbert speaks with Dr. Mauricio Hoyos Padilla is a world-renowned shark expert.  Linden finds out which shark is his...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 4 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and co-host Linden Wolbert.
  • Then co-host Mehgan Heany-Grier speaks with acclaimed Canadian photographer, filmmaker, author, and marine biologist Paul Nicklen...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 3 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then Stephan speaks with the Co-Founder/Head of Content at Mammalz and Underwater Cinematographer Alex Finden.  Alex tells us about the nature li...
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Welcome to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 2 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then Stephan speaks with Cave Diver and Explorer Rannvá Jørmundsson.  Rannva tells us about how we ended up working at Fourth Element, becoming a...
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Welcome back to Season 4 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  We have a fantastic season lined up for you with some amazing guests.

In episode 1 you can look forward to: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then Jason speaks with DEMA President and CEO Tom Ingram.  DEMA...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In this last episode of the season we cover: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and co-host Linden Wolbert
  • Then co-host Linden Wolbert speaks with Scuba Diver,  Stunt Woman, and Photojournalist Szilvia Gogh on the wonder at-risk-youth have on t...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 9: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias
  • Then co-host Linden Wolbert speaks with Emma Farrell, freediving instructor trainer, author of the book "one breath" and founder of her freediving training company Go Freedivi...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 8: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with co-host Mehgan Heany-Grier and producer Jason Elias
  • Then co-host Sarah Richard speaks with Francesca Trotman, the founder and managing director of the ocean conservation organization Love Your Oceans based in Mozambique....
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 7: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with Host Stephan Whelan and co-host Linden Wolbert
  • Then Linden speaks with Brett Stanley, the Australian-born, LA-based Underwater Photographer & Cinematographer famous for his underwater portraits.  He talks to Lin...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 6: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with Host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then co-host Mehgan Heany-Grier speaks with Jim Ritterhoff, executive director and co-founder of Force Blue - a nonprofit organization that provides a new mission for former ...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 5: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with Host Stephan Whelan and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then producer Jason speaks with Autumn Blum, founder of Stream2Sea.  She is a cosmetic chemist and diver who focusses on creating reef safe products.  Today she sha...
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Welcome to season 3 of the DeeperBlue Podcast!  In episode 4: 

  • The latest scuba diving, freediving, ocean, and diving travel news that has happened in the last week from around the world underwater with Co-Host Mehgan Heany-Grier and producer Jason Elias.
  • Then co-host Mehgan Heany-Grier speaks with John Stella, a legend in the diving world, member of the explorers club and a wreck hunter who has helped discovered 45+ sh...
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