The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast
Creating a new generation of ocean stewards.
Episodes
December 4, 2025 • 13 mins
The US Department of Interior recently issued an order that significantly looks to expand oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of Alaska and California.
This expansion covers 1.27 billion acres of ocean.
Additionally, the Interior Department plans to sell more leases in 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico on December 10, 2025. A lawsuit has been filed to stop this sale stating that it violates the Nation...
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November 20, 2025 • 13 mins
This year the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) Show took place in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center - November 11 - 14, 2025.
The show continues to demonstrate that the dive industry is vibrant, alive and energized. Attendance at the show is back to pre-pandemic levels with a record number of qualified buyers in attendance. Business is getting done at the DEMA Show.
Listen for my recap on all of ...
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November 5, 2025 • 13 mins
We just returned from a three-week trip of scuba diving in Lembeh (Indonesia) and the Philippines. This is an incredible adventure with world-class diving in the heart of the coral triangle.
Check out the travel, resorts and diving in this part of the world.
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October 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Plastic pollution is yet another critical peril impacting the oceans around the world. To solve this problem it is going to take a concentrated effort to implement solutions that stop the production of more plastic, improve recycling and disposal efforts and implement solutions that allow for reuse of items to replace the single-use plastic items that are so prolific.
Recently, Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon introduced a bill - ...
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September 25, 2025 • 14 mins
Recently, President Trump addressed the United Nations where he told the world that climate change is a greatest con job. He also said that this was being predicted by stupid people. I disagree.
There is detailed scientific data that paints the picture that the planet's climate is changing. Recently the American Meteorological Society released their State of the Climate 2024 and provides the evidence that the world is heating up. ...
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September 11, 2025 • 19 mins
The Plastic Pollution Coalition reported some disappointing results from the UN's Intergovernmental Negotiating Committees recent meeting in Geneva - August 5 to 15, 2025. The meetings were riddled with distraction and delay tactics from the fossil fuel industry and plastic friendly countries. How big are the lobbying efforts. Greenpeace's report - Plastic, Profit and Power - How petrochemical companies are derailing the global pla...
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August 28, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode I take a look at a blue paper published by the Ocean Panel on the impacts to the worldwide workforce if we take action and create a sustainable ocean economy versus not doing anything to help preserve the ocean.
Currently, the worldwide workforce tied to the ocean economy is about 133 million. If we pursue sustainable practices that number could rise by 51 million more workers by 2050. If we do nothing they estimat...
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August 14, 2025 • 19 mins
The US Energy Secretary recently announced that they are reassessing, or essentially rewriting the 2023 congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment (NCA) report.
Apparently, the assessment isn't inline with the current administrations thinking regardless of the scientific data backing the assessment. The Department of Energy has taken down the website hosting the NCA. While the Energy Secretary wants to unleash American e...
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July 31, 2025 • 18 mins
Shark Week 2025 featured a new show "Dancing with Sharks"
Now this show is billed as an underwater dance competition between experienced scuba divers and their shark partners. They performed moves like Hammerhead Hoedown and Tiger Trot.
Has Shark Week jumped the shark?
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing to remove the "endangerment finding" for pollutants resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. By removing this st...
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July 17, 2025 • 17 mins
The future of scuba diving is not with our current generation of scuba divers; the future of diving is with the next generation of scuba divers - specifically the Gen Z, Millennials and younger generations. They could be ready to become the future but is the diving industry ready for them. There are challenges including
Access
Exposure
Affordability
Breaking down the financial barriers is needed to overcome the high entry c...
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July 3, 2025 • 15 mins
The Dive Pirates Foundation is an organization dedicated to enabling individuals with physical disabilities enjoy the underwater world through scuba diving. Their motto is "We no longer see disabilities, we see possibilities".
Each year, Dive Pirates runs a dive trip for adaptive divers, their buddies and volunteers. This year, I decided to volunteer, observe, learn and be part of the team. While on the trip, I was able to complet...
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June 19, 2025 • 18 mins
The State of the Oceans report from Statisa and the German Ocean foundation gives us an overview of how they see the current state of the oceans around the world.
This report discusses how the oceans are critical for an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable future. However, the impacts of climate change and pollution are seriously impacting the state of the ocean.
In 2015 global leaders agreed to Sustainable Deve...
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June 5, 2025 • 18 mins
Another of my favorite spots to get in some scuba diving is Key Largo. I finally returned after five years. The last time I made it to the Keys was 2019 before the pandemic. It was also an opportunity to find my blue mind again after being out of the water for over 200 days.
We stayed at The Courtyard Key Largo at mile marker 100 and did two days of diving with Horizon Divers. We chose the two-tank shallow dives. Our dive sites in...
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May 15, 2025 • 20 mins
Oceana recently released a report - Plastic Foam Needs 'To Go'
Plastic foam is one type of polystyrene that is incredibly harmful to the environment and human health. Most US registered voters agree and 78% support policies that reduce single-use plastic foam.
More than 8 million metric tons of plastic foam is produced globally each year and plastic foam fragments are among the 10 most littered items found across the US. Unfortun...
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May 1, 2025 • 19 mins
Like many federal - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is being drastically impacted by efforts to shrink government. And this effort not only seriously undermines the mission of the agency but also we are seeing the political impacts and assault on the environment.
Let's take a look at how these layoffs are causing issues across the various mission areas of NOAA.
We will also discuss how today's political...
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April 17, 2025 • 20 mins
Our oceans are under assault.
From the US withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the number of executive orders issued by President Trump we are seeing an all out pummeling of initiatives designed to protect the environment and the oceans.
On April 8, 2025 an executive order was signed to reinvigorate America's beautiful clean coal industry. Another executive order looks to sunset environmental regulations. There is also a preside...
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April 3, 2025 • 19 mins
I recently attended one day of the Beneath the Sea Scuba Ocean Exposition, Dive and Travel Show.
This was their 46th show that was started by Zig and JoAnn Zigahn back in 1976. The show made its come back from the pandemic in 2023.
The show ran March 28 - 30, 2025 and featured seminars, conferences, dinners, receptions and of course the main exhibition hall.
I had a chance to touch base with a number of folks and find some new ...
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March 20, 2025 • 20 mins
The Boston Sea Rovers 71st International Ocean Symposium and Film Festival kicked off the Northeast dive season with a fantastic show March 15 and 16. As one of the worlds longest continuously running scuba diving shows, the 2025 edition lived up to its mission of Raising the Level of Knowledge of the Underwater World. The two-day event featured 39 daytime seminars with unique themes covering wrecks and maritime history, marine sci...
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March 6, 2025 • 18 mins
As scuba divers we love adventure and exploring dive destinations around the world.
When I consider a dive destination and resort some of my criteria include:
Warm water
Great diving
All-inclusive
On premises dive shop
Ease of getting to the destination
Here are my top three dive destinations and resorts
Atlantis Dive Resorts - Dumaguete in the Philippines
Sea of Cortez aboard Mexico Liveaboards
All three Cayman...
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February 20, 2025 • 18 mins
In November 2024, the EPA released the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution. This strategy was developed in accordance with the Save Our Seas Act 2.0 of 2020 signed by President Trump on December 18, 2020.
This national strategy has six main objectives
Reduce Pollution from Plastic Production
Innovate Material and Product Design
Decrease Waste Generation
Improve Waste management
Improve Capture and Removal of ...
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