The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast
Creating a new generation of ocean stewards.
Episodes
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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February 6, 2025 • 19 mins
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change is now 10 years old. For the second time in the ten years, the United States is withdrawing from a worldwide treaty to combat greenhouse gas.
On January 20, 2025 by executive order, the US is again abandoning the treaty and eliminating any funding addressing climate initiatives.
Do we really think this is in America's best interest?
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January 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Listen for my observations on the state of the scuba diving industry in 2025.
While there are several headwinds that are facing the industry there are two issues that are critical for the sustainability of the dive industry
Creating the next generation of scuba divers
Developing a younger generation of dive shop owners
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Sea State discusses
Light and Motion s...
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January 9, 2025 • 16 mins
Welcome to 2025 - Happy New Year.
As we make our way into the new year - let's take a look ahead at what is on our plate for 2025.
Scuba Educational Alliance of Connecticut will be offering two different scholarships in 2025:
Ocean Steward I Scholarship - Open Water Certification
Ocean Steward II Scholarship - Advanced Open Water
Applications open February 1, 2025 and will be awarded on March 31, 2025
March is also when we...
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December 26, 2024 • 18 mins
On this episode, I take a look back at 2024, a year of change and great travel.
The big change for us was the sale of Scuba Shack - it was time for us to retire from the day-to-day operation.
But that didn't stop our travel schedule with great trips to Little Cayman, the Sea of Cortez and Cayman Brac.
My work with DEMA continued along with a new gig writing for Scuba Diving Industry Magazine and participating in the new Level Up...
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December 12, 2024 • 18 mins
We are all familiar with the invasion of lionfish in the Caribbean but there is also another invasion that has been under the radar - pulse corals.
These corals are from the Indo-Pacific and have been introduced into the Tropical Western Atlantic most likely from someone trying to grow them for commercial purposes. They are favorite for aquariums because they grow rapidly, are very decorative and are resilient.
The invasion start...
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