September 13, 2025 • 43 mins
This hour Tank checks with the SR crew after an extended absence. Plus what diving is like in Indonesia. Looking for HOUR1?
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Where the hell are No, here's your dive guy for
Scuba Radio, Greg the Dive Master.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
And welcome Dowur, two of the world's first radio show
devoted to diving. The Douche the Deuce and we you
know we're gonna start this hour off it's gonna there's
gonna be a lot we got to talk about. We
got to talk with more with Kenny from Sweetwater Scuba.
We got doctor Doug ever Saw, who is not only
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in Roatan but in Indonesia. Want to get the lowdown
on what the diving is there at a resort called
Walking Toby. I've always loved the name of this place,
and he just went there and just got back. We'll
talk about that, but before we do. I almost hate
to do this, but I I kind of I said,
all right, you know, it's one of these things where
I kind of second guess my decisions as we prepare for,
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you know, each Scuba Radio broadcast. But Tank, the Strip
Club DJ that we've had on the show before, reached
out to me this week and he said, look, I know, well,
last time he was on, we had some miscommunication. I
think it was around Thanksgiving. It's been a while and
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he's been trying to redeem himself to go out there
and market Scuba Radio. You share the love of diving
and what we've been doing with this show for twenty
eight years. And you know, it was a turkey incident
around Thanksgiving that went really badly here in Orlando almost
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got us kicked out of the city, let alone on
the air, and I just said, look, dude, you gotta
take a break. You cannot be on the show anymore.
And he heard the show last week and he brought
up something about the killer whale thing with the trainers
that were trying to keep the killer whales happy by
giving him a rub down with the bonus happy ending.
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We need to yeah, we don't need to rehash that
story again. It was a little uh yeah, And I
don't know if that was you know, that green light
for him to reach out and say, hey, you're doing that,
so surely I'm not that bad. No, I don't know.
I have no idea. But he asked to come back
on the air. So I got him on hold and
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I said, okay, try to you know, we'll get I'll
give you a shot. Yeah, you've been on probation. I guess. No, God, no,
I'm not. But uh but Tank don't care anymore. Well,
it's not that I'm trying to be forgiving, you know.
I yeah, you know, sometimes you know, maybe people make
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mistakes and you give them another shot. So against all
my better judgment, Tank, you're on the air yeah, it's
I know it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I heard on the show last week you were talking
about the killer.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well you think they are happy ending?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hell yeah? So I figured you could handle my top
ten list, present to you the Scuberano listeners. The top
ten statements misinterpreted by non divers.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I umber ten.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
My buddy grabbed my octopus. Number nine. I think I
maybe bent Number eight. I shut up too fast? Whoops?
Number seven? I love bottom time.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Number six?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Did you see that giant clam?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Hell yeah? Number five? What do you think of my log?
I'll get your log right here.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Book number four, The entry was a little rough, that's okay.
Number three my o ring blue? Number two gone lately?
Uh huh. And the number one statement misinterpreted by non divers.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
She had to inflate orally.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Oh hell yeah, I gotta go, Greg.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You got a horror waiting for me in the what mobile.
I'll try to catch up with you guys at tema.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
He sound I don't bother me not.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I knew that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I knew was that tank is pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I don't know he was on probation. I think that
was just another example of why we probably should have
extended it just a little bit. I didn't think there
was a line that could be crossed where you I
don't remember well that last time anybody. I mean, it
almost got me arrested and I was like, dude, you've
that's too.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I thought that list of ten was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Really, so I Viny two tanks. You think we should
have tank back on more often? Then?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Okay, all right, well you are a sick puppy and
some of those are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You didn't think that, Tim Litz, that was pretty creative.
I thought, really and funny.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Yeah, okay, well.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's just my opinion. What the hell do I know?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
No, I mean, you know you have taste. It's probably bad,
but that's fine. Any who, Uh, doctor Doug, let's talk
walk a Tooby and maybe salvage this show just by
one degree at lea least, Toby walk Tooby Waka waka waka.
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It's like, is it an island or a name of
a resort? Doctor Doug, walk Atoby? Yes? Is it both? Oh? Wait,
I don't hear him. He's taking a page from Casey
the Tobacco nutt and Vinnie. Now I think do we
got you here?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
There?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
He is okay, so h Vine and I were talking
off cameras. So it's a it's actually four islands. I
forgot the actual names of one called Tony, but there's four.
You take the first two letters of each of the
four islands and that's where you get the wak a
Toby from. It's it's a resort kind in southeast Silouisi
and Indonesia. Great fantastics are highly recommend it. The way
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the system works is they have their own charter plane
from Bali, so they fly on Mondays and Fridays and
you fly into Bali. You can stay at an airport
hotel which is actually quite nice, and the next morning
you go to the domestic terminal. They meet you at
the terminal, They take you to a coffee shop, they
have their own menu, You sit down, you have breakfast,
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then they escort you to their own plane. They fly
you there. They then escort you to the resort. It's
it's done very very well. But the diving is phenomenal.
We were actually on the Pallagian, which is their liver
board boat. Some people on the on our boat were
staying afterwards and doing the house reef and some of
the some of the dives there. But the first day
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we got there, they had us do lunch at the
actual resort and was unbelievable this buffet of just phenomenal food.
We kind of walked through the resort. It looks very
well organized, lots of boats. You can do shore diving.
Their house reef as well, over a mile long, and
at any time you want to dive the house reef,
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you let them know.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They take your gear out to the dock.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
You get in the water, when you're done with your dog,
you fire in SMB and they send a boat and
come pick you up and take you back to the dock.
So it's pretty easy. They've got a bunch of boats,
you know. For day diving. We are on the liver board,
which normally holds ten people. We only had eight on
board with us, so there's only there's four cabins that
were used, and I think there's like nine or ten staff,
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So there's nine or ten staff are only eight guests.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
So way, well, let me get this straight. So there's
a resort and there's a liver board there on the property,
so you have the option to be on both or
you just mix it up. I guess a little bit.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Is that the deal, right, We just did a week
on the liver board, So the people on a boat
did a week on the liver board and then stayed
for a week afterwards or five days afterwards at the resorts.
You can kind of mix and matches since you're going
that far, because the diving is a little different. Apparently
the land based diving is a little bit different than
is the liver board, which goes a little bit farther away,
both of which were great. Again, like I said, we
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only had eight people on the liver board, and they
took two zodiacs out of each day, so we only
had four of us on a zodiac with one guide.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
And it was you know, typical, your typical four dives
a day, three during the day, one night dive. The
meals were unbelievable. I don't know how this chef did
the meals he did even probably the best food of
liver board. We've been a lot of liver boards ever.
They had a menu each day you'd pick from appetizers,
you picked your bain course, you picked your dessert, all
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that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I'm gett hungry just by talking about this. And by
the way, see I understand your confusion. It's Wakatoby, not
Wacky Toby, which is a totally different person, has nothing
to do with the diving that we're talking about out there,
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tighten it up, kid, Yeah, okay. AnyWho, we've been talking
with doctor Doug ever Saw just got back from Indonesia
and he was at the Walk of Toby Resort and
evidently they got a live aboard both there too, which
is kind of interesting. I do feel really sorry for
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any employee there at that resort. God help them. If
their name is Toby, that would be terrible. Yeah, but
it would be mildly amusing, wasn't that. Oh there's old
wacky Toby. See Venny likes it like that, and I'm
not even the funny one. So God, I'm blessed.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Actually I didn't figure I couldn't figure it out, so
like you.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Know, until I spelled it out right there for you.
Well it's always best. It's always best when you can
explain your jokes.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So I figured it out after a while.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Okay, all right, well there you said Toby.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh that's pretty funny. Yeah, guy's name.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Still just chalk it up. Is another lesson from the Master.
You're welcome, good doctor Doug Evers. All help me please,
and uh well tell me about the dive. Uh there
you said. The diving on the liver board portion versus
land is wildly different. Like for instance, like I have
heard that their house reef there and walk Tooby is
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is a bunk diving spot? Is that right? Or no?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, there's a there's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
It's a wall, okay, lots of again, we do the
liver boards.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I didn't dive the resort.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
But from what I was told, for the people who
had lots and lots of turtles, lots of marine life,
there's small stuff, big stuff, but it's uh but it's you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Know, beautiful. There's not Indonesia.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
There's not a lot of sharks, not a lot of bantas.
We did have turtles, you know, Like I said, there
was turtles on the house reef, but also we had
plenty of turtles out where we were.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Yeah, but aren't they famous for like a spot where
they have some muck diving there. I remember hearing this,
but I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Well, there's definitely different places. So we like on the
living board, we spent one day in a muck diving area.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Okay, that's where we had like the mating mandarin fish
at night.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Uh and you know, wonderpuls octopus and all this kind
of stuff. Sand it's kind of trash heap looking area.
So we spent one day that really cool critters, but
the rest of the time was walls and reefs and
all that sort of thing. So right, water was a
little chillier than I would have thought. I mean, it's
actually the water was like mid seventies.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Refreshed, so four.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Dives a day. Most people were in five mills, you know,
because by time chilli.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah, you know what I would do, you've used
your head, get warm water. H Yeah. I wouldn't come
in handy for crop. No, no crotch drop, no.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Lots of the stuff.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
It's a muck diving.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Muck diving, which is like it's usually like this volcanic
ash type of you know, sandy bottom doesn't look like
there's a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Really cool Yeah, yeah, yeah I didn't.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
We had We had one day of that, So one
day of muck diving, so you can see a lot
of very strange creaters. We had, you know, snake eels
and wonderful's octopus and blue ring octopus and.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Mandarin fish and all the kind of really weird critters.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The rest of the time was typical beautiful walls or
reefs or whatever.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We had everything, like I said, from lots of turtles
to big cuddlefish to small cuddlefish, to pigmy sea horses
to a little bit of everything from small to big.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Yeah. Those blue ring octopus, by the way, some of
the most poisonous.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Animals make great plants here.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I don't think that's accurate. I think that's a very
bad suggestion.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Hey, we could do another another game at the show.
You could hold a blue ring octopus and we could
take bet how long before you got bit?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Will he die? Will he not?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Is there any abusing wildlife?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
So would I would basic? Yeah, what do they tell
you about the blue ring octopus in that regard.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I hear they're deadlier than hell.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Well, I mean it's only only if they fight with them,
like these out there.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Don't play with it, just leave it alone. It leaves
you alone.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Yeah, is that what it is? Like if they bite
you they have the poison or is it just.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
That ye look at you, Greg, They're very small. They're tiny.
They're tiny the lot of us.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Yeah, and they're not very aggressive obviously.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
If he's leaving, it's like the else underwater. Leave it alone,
it leaves you alone.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah. Well, it's like sea snakes like and uh, I
mean they do they have sea snakes there to you,
like in Australia. I mean those are you know, the
venom and a sea snake is like the most potent
venom on the planet. But but for them to actually
bite you and you literally you don't almost have to
take your finger and stick it down their mouth and uh,
and only if they're choking, well maybe I don't even know.
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I mean, it's extremely hard to be bitten. But when
you hear that they're the most venomum venomous snake on
the planet or something like that, and you know, that's
a little intimidating, but they don't bite people really.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, generally we had several sea snakes during the week.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Yeah, so it sounds impressive when you said, Hey, I
just dove with the most venomous snake on the planet.
I'm kind of a big deal. Hello. Yeah, I know
what you're thinking. If you have to say that, are you?
Are you cock Johnson? And I have to say no,
I'm not even cock Johnson, and I've done this chick sticket.
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Just say, oh, yeah, Vinny has a question.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Maybe doctor Doug knows it's there's sea snakes and there's
something called crates.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
C Well, we had those for breakfast sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh what's the different? What's but you know what the
difference between one or the other is. They both look
like snakes.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
But one's a big brown box made of wood. One's delicious.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'll kill you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Okay, No, I do you know what he's talking about,
doctor Doug? Or or no?
Speaker 14 (20:15):
The the crates are I think like the aquatic that
they actually they can be on land or go in
the ocean, and sea snakes are always in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right and crates aren't poisonous, I think too, right, Yeah,
it could be.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I know the crates have to lay they lay their
eggs on land or something.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Okay, well, so they ann he could get a pet crate.
That's what he wants. He wants a pet crate and
there's an apartment, there's a pet and it's not poisonous,
I'd be okay, is it sure?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Inappropriate? I think the inappropriate too.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
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Web made up of Bubble Boy of any two tanks,
Casey the tobacco nut doctor Doug Eversall. And we also
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just sharing little tips and tricks on how to be
a better diver. But by the way, Kenny, have you
ever been to Wakatobi or Indonesia before? Is that on
your list?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I haven't. I was, It's on my list. I was
googling it while while we were talking about it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah, you know, I saw an article this week about
top five dive destinations in the world, and you know,
we I've actually been asked to put together a list
like this. You know, what are your favorite dive sites
and and you know it's one thing to have an opinion.
Too much work. No, it's not too much work. I
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actually when I did when I did this many years ago,
I actually at that time, I've ranked Dominika as my
favorite dive destination. And so, you know, an individual, I
think can have favorite spots. I like to go. Fiji's
right up there, you know, and and stuff. There's placeless
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in the Cayman Islands. There's you know, there's even a
dive side or too in the Bahamas and places. There's
so many places you can go, and there's diving. There's
great diving no matter where you go in the world.
But when you sit there and say the top five
dive destinations in the world, according to what I mean
this article I read, I was like, wait a minute,
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hold on, you know this is you know, I don't
even know how you put a list together?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Meant to a lot of places. You could do it?
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Well I did, I did any about ten years ago.
I put out a list. I was asked to do
it for USA today and I did. But this was
my opinion. It wasn't, like, you know, based on any
kind of real data other than my experience of diving
over the years.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And I've been a lot of places.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Well okay, once again that's in opinion. But when you
put out an article say here's the top five dive
destinations in the world, well it didn't say according to who.
You don't have to get so pissy about it. Just
well no, I just thought that was I didn't think
the I don't understand your outrage, Well it was. I
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just thought it was misleading. No, No, hold on, hold on,
you're misunderstandable. They I think for somebody who has not
been to these places, and you put out an article
set here's the top five dive destinations in the world,
and I look at the listen like this is hogwash language.
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I know, I know, I'm getting a little salty, but
I just thought that was a bit uh you know.
I'm not upset about it. I'm just a little annoyed
because if you were a if you were a new
diver and you saw this list, like, well, I got
to go to these five places, these are the five
best dive destinations in the world, and it's like, whoahoa,
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you don't put that out there. I don't think anybody
I think they could filter that through reason and not well,
you know, the five that destinations they put up there,
they were all valid dive destinations that are popular, for sure,
but I thought the order was wrong, and I thought
there were so many that were omitted that were better.
(26:27):
Well that's the thing about lists, you know, everybody likes
to argue about him.
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Yeah, well, now wait a minute, are we talking about
our listeners evaluating this list. That's a different.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Well, of course it is. And once again it's a
you know, if someone puts out their opinion of here's
my five favorite dive destinations that every diver should go on.
Totally agree. But if you sit there and try to
do I mean, I don't even know how you do
the survey like that. I mean maybe Patty or Nawi
or put out for it so far, okay, would that
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be okay with you?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well?
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Maybe, but you don't put out a story as his
top five dive destination about.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
You said, list made by a scuba douche.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yes, like me, which is what I did about ten
years ago, and I did the USA today asked me
to put this list together. Your problem is the title
of it. Not no, I My problem with it was
it was I thought it was not attributed properly and
for someone to read it, yeah, it wasn't. I mean,
(27:34):
you know, like I said, especially someone just getting into
scuba diving would read this list. I just take it
for granted. Well, that must be the top five dive
destination in the world.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
Dumb ass right lists comprised by scuba douches across the board.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Well, I mean I actually it might have been just one,
you know, a person who did it, but they didn't
really attribute it properly. If you asked me. So, yeah,
I might a little annoyed with it. Yes, is it
a big deal? No? But but you know, do I
get this question? Well no, I get this question all
the time as well as you guys have probably had
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this happen. I know doctor Doug and Kenny get this they.
You know, people come up and you know, a listener
or someone who watches your YouTube channel or whatever, and
they say, oh man, you've been all around the world.
What's your favorite place to go? What's your favorite dive? No,
there's nothing at all, but one of my standard questions
or answers to that is the next place I'm going
(28:30):
to go because they're so many great No, it's not
a cop out. It's the truth, because there's great diving
no matter where you go. Now, are there some favorite question? Though?
What is your favorite dive destination that you've been to? Okay, now,
you can't say the next one unless you're repeating. All right,
let's say I haven't been there, I haven't been to
(28:50):
an an Asia, I haven't been to Wakatobi. Okay, you've
been to so far. Well, you're putting it in a qualifier.
It wasn't in that questioning to make it so you
can answer it. You're being difficult. You're being difficult. Any
two tanks? What say you?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's very simple.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Yeah, anytime you any media, whether it's whether it's online
or reading a book or a magazine or a newspaper. No, no,
here's my philosophy. And maybe I'm wrong. I only believe
half of what you read. Could then you only be
half wrong or half right? So okay, when you see
stuff you can you've got to think about it. And
(29:31):
you know you it's you know, when you see stuff
people put out, it may not like on this show,
if people believed everything we said, there'd be a lie problems.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I think you have to consider the source. If Greg
told me or if doctor Doug told me, I'd be
like that would carry Yeah, do a lot more places
than right. So okay, Well when you told me, I
think it was Maldives one of my favorite spots, right,
And I know you've been all over the world for
a long time and you said this is it holds
(30:06):
a little credibility, maybe my favorite place. I thought, wow,
it must be unbelievable. It is, absolutely it is.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Ok.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
That wasn't even in the top five, by the way
of this article. No, that article. I read this. Okay, well,
well that's what I'm saying. Wrong, and I don't want
people to get the wrong idea. You just said it's
an opinion, so well I'm saying it's opinion. They didn't
present it as an opinion. That was my gripe. Okay, see,
that's what I'm saying. There was no attribution though, where
(30:37):
isn't it I'm not I'm not splitting here. If one
person wrote it, then it's kind of understood it's an opinion. No,
it isn't. When you say, here are the top five
in the world. No, it said by nothing. That's what
I That was my point. It had no attribution to exactly.
It just presented this like this was fact. And I'm
(31:00):
I got your you got your rash guarden a watch. Well,
I'm just saying there's it's so uh. You don't want
people to get the wrong idea, you know, you don't
want them to be limited right out of the box.
They just read something to think it's totally accurate. I'm
very upset. Maybe take a breath. No, I will not.
I will not take a breath. I know.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
And they say, okay, gestations that gives them something to
shoot for in their diving.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
World, or research and figure out research. Okay, okay, you
guys say the dropping off point. It's not written the
glass is half full, that's what you're trying to we're
being positive. Well just well that means you guys are
full of crap. Let's not forget who's the genius here,
(31:53):
not you, but.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He's the worldwide Scuba Radio network.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Excuse excoose prepared ring for guy.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You A surface interval is complete. You are now clear
to dive with Scuba Radio, the world's first radio show
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Speaker 6 (32:26):
Dive, dive, dive. People sound like they're yodeling underwater.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
This is the world's first radio show to voted to diving.
I am Greg the Dive Master, And yeah, okay, so
we've been doing the show for twenty eight years, and uh,
you know, you have an opinion of your favorite dive
site or dive destination all around the world. And people
that have been maybe you know, around for a while,
been diving forever, have a little bit more experience, probably
(32:59):
hold a little bit more clout than someone just starting diving.
That would make sense, right right, See the first sensible
thing you've said the whole show. Yeah, wow, No.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Your whole life.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Okay, thank you, Casey. I think you need your crappuccino. Yeah, well,
I don't know, doctor Doug. What do you think are
you following my I mean, my perturbedness about this type
of thing, or.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
Well, I mean I agree, it's it's every It depends
what you like to do, right, if someone is a
If someone's a wreck diver, then they take the ten
best wreck diving sites in the world of all like
Cold Water may pick that.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
So the list there's too many variables.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, people ask me that question.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
I had I reply with either what you said, which
is where I'm going next, or I say it depends
on my favorite once depends on what you're looking to see.
If you're looking to see sharks, it's different than it
was looking for beautiful reef. It's different than if you're
looking for caves.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Right, big animals, muck diving, yeah, yeah, live aboards, land base,
you know, top side attraction distractions, that kind of thing.
What do you think, Kenny, You got any thoughts one
way or another on that or what?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Believe it or not?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
We ask this question every time guests come into dive quest.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Oh yeah, sure, of course every day.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So hearing what everyone says is really interesting and having
done it for a while, the shop and all that
stuff looking back like you know, through a looking glass.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
People always ask me.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It always gets around to me and I kind of
had to stop saying this because they didn't like the answer.
And that is the one where I had the most
fun with everybody I was there with. That's what sticks
in my mind. We can get so focused on, oh,
there's really pretty whatever animal here. Then you go there
(34:52):
and it is really cool. For the two one hour
dives you're down or whatever it is. Maybe doctor Doug
you're down there for six hours, but uh, for the
rest of us, just on regular old scuba tank, we're
there for a couple hours, and then then what you
got a whole day, you got a week, You got
eighty percent of your waking life has nothing to do
with the dive on these trips, plus your data weight
(35:14):
before you fly back, right, And so I started changing
my trips to start looking at whatever else was there.
Maybe this dive is like a ten as far as
shipwrecks or animals or whatever you're there to see, But
this one over here is like a seven or eight,
but there's all this other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
For us to go do.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Sure, and there's a good tiki bar right there.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Well right, and like you said, who your dive buddies are.
So if you're diving a tens and you're sharing that
experience with like Vinny two Tanks, Casey the tobacco Nut, uh,
it brings it down to a you know seven.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You're good to have a good time.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
I see what he's saying. It's like if you're bar worked,
we're there, It's right. It's like if you're dating a
supermodel is a total bitch? Oh okay ruins. So that
you're saying that would never happens a lot. Really okay,
But I get what he's saying. Yeah I do too.
(36:12):
It's uh, you know, it's the experience. It's and that
is the people that you dive with. I mean, let's
face it, that's kind of what scuba radio is based on.
One day, I am hoping to have a good time.
I mean, it's so we joke around a lot talking
about all the cool things we see underwater, but it's
really the people that we have around us that make
this so much fun. You know, we're kicking it, uh,
(36:35):
you know, talking about all our fish tails with our
friends every week on the show at the tiki bar.
That's kind of what we do on the show, and
that that's why it's so much fun to do this
and agony and at other times, which has probably been
the majority of the shows. What what's a you cout
Johnson peeing in cups? Okay, well, uh, you know, two
(36:56):
each his own. Yeah, why would you do that? There's
a right there.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
No, he's so dedicated. He does one of the microphone
from the show, you know, to.
Speaker 13 (37:07):
Be aware, I have no idea what that particularly rough weekend,
I won't say.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Okay, well thanks for bringing it up then, but regardless,
but yeah, I mean I think that's a very valid point, Kenny.
And it is, you know, and all my dives at
all I've done around the world, and I bet doctor
Doug feels the same way.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
There.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
There's certain things you remember, you know, whether it's in
Roatan or Indonesia or wherever you travel to, and you'll
remember this one encounter with a manta ray or a
whale shark or or you know whatever underwater, and you'll
remember this. But then for me, I look back and
it all blurs together. Where was I? Was I in
the Fiji, was I in the Bahamas? But but then
(37:50):
I'll remember the people. Like one of the reasons I'd
love Fiji so much is that the people of Fiji
are so friendly and just bring you into their home.
You drink kava with them, and you have this you know,
cultural exchange. It's like on another level. And I remember
those way way more than I remember the individual dives,
(38:11):
you know, with particular critters and things like that. Arguing
over golf carts and Bimini. Yes, right, you don't ever
want to do that, but you remember those Sometimes you know,
the experiences may be hazardous. I wasn't involved, but it
was hilarious. Yeah, true. There. You know, there's things that
(38:32):
happened that some sometimes you know, where someone gets mildly
mild abrasion or visually scarred from like red spanks on
a liver board boat. Yeah, but I don't know. I
don't think that's just us, but it could be that
(38:52):
that might be so. But you remember those things and
it gives you another story in the arsenal dive.
Speaker 13 (39:00):
One of my top dive destinations would be Bimini because
I remember all sharing cigars and drinks in the sandbar.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
See he remembers that I blocked it out, remember anything. Okay,
well that maybe I just blacked out because we were
drinking rama and you are drinking that much. Okay, you're
drinking the least of anything. Yeah, but but it is.
You know, there are so many great dive sites all
around the world, and you can find a great dive
(39:32):
no matter where you are on the planet. It could
be a quarry and in the Midwest someplace, or up
in the Northeast someplace, or you could be you know,
halfway around the world and in the Maldives out in
the middle of the all these atolls they have in
in the uh in the mall these with whale sharks,
and the experience and the feeling is the same. It's magical,
(39:55):
you know. Yes, so there you go. So you know,
I I guess just the moral of this whole segment
or two is just don't do articles where you say,
here's the top five destinations in the world. God, yeah,
got it? Yeah, I mean you can. You can give
(40:15):
us your opinion.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
There's a lot of work just to get there.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Greg Well, I apologize, he's very cranky Top five destinations. Go, Vinnie,
what are they for you?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
For me?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Indonesian Philippines?
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Yeah, that's two or two?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Those two?
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Okay? And three more?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Three more?
Speaker 7 (40:38):
I know, I'm I'm I'm really testing you. Wow, there's
one two?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
All right, come back, Cosmo, I went there.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
Okay, he says three. That's three two more, come on.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You can do it more okay his brain by the way.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Fiji, Fiji's there.
Speaker 7 (40:58):
Okay, just one more, that's all we need. Vinnie, Okay,
one more, Vinnie two tanks Top five dive destinations. Oh
kay uh, he's gonna stroke out.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
Just name a place, just name any name of place that.
Speaker 13 (41:20):
I can't even think of thatand.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I didn't dive there, but yeah, I love Thailand.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
Okay, all right, that's close enough.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
A boa.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Hey look at the time. Wow, wow, just wow. What
a great way to endo the show. Thank you, Benny
the Radio Gold, Radio.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Gold, forget.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
I'm sorry, all right until next week. Remember it's always
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We got doctor Doug ever Saw, who is not only
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in Roatan but in Indonesia. Want to get the lowdown
on what the diving is there at a resort called
Walking Toby. I've always loved the name of this place,
and he just went there and just got back. We'll
talk about that, but before we do. I almost hate
to do this, but I I kind of I said,
all right, you know, it's one of these things where
I kind of second guess my decisions as we prepare for,
(01:51):
you know, each Scuba Radio broadcast. But Tank, the Strip
Club DJ that we've had on the show before, reached
out to me this week and he said, look, I know, well,
last time he was on, we had some miscommunication. I
think it was around Thanksgiving. It's been a while and
(02:15):
he's been trying to redeem himself to go out there
and market Scuba Radio. You share the love of diving
and what we've been doing with this show for twenty
eight years. And you know, it was a turkey incident
around Thanksgiving that went really badly here in Orlando almost
(02:36):
got us kicked out of the city, let alone on
the air, and I just said, look, dude, you gotta
take a break. You cannot be on the show anymore.
And he heard the show last week and he brought
up something about the killer whale thing with the trainers
that were trying to keep the killer whales happy by
giving him a rub down with the bonus happy ending.
(02:58):
We need to yeah, we don't need to rehash that
story again. It was a little uh yeah, And I
don't know if that was you know, that green light
for him to reach out and say, hey, you're doing that,
so surely I'm not that bad. No, I don't know.
I have no idea. But he asked to come back
on the air. So I got him on hold and
(03:19):
I said, okay, try to you know, we'll get I'll
give you a shot. Yeah, you've been on probation. I guess. No, God, no,
I'm not. But uh but Tank don't care anymore. Well,
it's not that I'm trying to be forgiving, you know.
I yeah, you know, sometimes you know, maybe people make
(03:43):
mistakes and you give them another shot. So against all
my better judgment, Tank, you're on the air yeah, it's
I know it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I heard on the show last week you were talking
about the killer.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Well you think they are happy ending?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hell yeah? So I figured you could handle my top
ten list, present to you the Scuberano listeners. The top
ten statements misinterpreted by non divers.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I umber ten.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
My buddy grabbed my octopus. Number nine. I think I
maybe bent Number eight. I shut up too fast? Whoops?
Number seven? I love bottom time.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Number six?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Did you see that giant clam?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Hell yeah? Number five? What do you think of my log?
I'll get your log right here.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Book number four, The entry was a little rough, that's okay.
Number three my o ring blue? Number two gone lately?
Uh huh. And the number one statement misinterpreted by non divers.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
She had to inflate orally.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Oh hell yeah, I gotta go, Greg.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You got a horror waiting for me in the what mobile.
I'll try to catch up with you guys at tema.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
He sound I don't bother me not.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I knew that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I knew was that tank is pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I don't know he was on probation. I think that
was just another example of why we probably should have
extended it just a little bit. I didn't think there
was a line that could be crossed where you I
don't remember well that last time anybody. I mean, it
almost got me arrested and I was like, dude, you've
that's too.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I thought that list of ten was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Really, so I Viny two tanks. You think we should
have tank back on more often? Then?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Okay, all right, well you are a sick puppy and
some of those are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You didn't think that, Tim Litz, that was pretty creative.
I thought, really and funny.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Yeah, okay, well.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's just my opinion. What the hell do I know?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
No, I mean, you know you have taste. It's probably bad,
but that's fine. Any who, Uh, doctor Doug, let's talk
walk a Tooby and maybe salvage this show just by
one degree at lea least, Toby walk Tooby Waka waka waka.
(06:32):
It's like, is it an island or a name of
a resort? Doctor Doug, walk Atoby? Yes? Is it both? Oh? Wait,
I don't hear him. He's taking a page from Casey
the Tobacco nutt and Vinnie. Now I think do we
got you here?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
There?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
He is okay, so h Vine and I were talking
off cameras. So it's a it's actually four islands. I
forgot the actual names of one called Tony, but there's four.
You take the first two letters of each of the
four islands and that's where you get the wak a
Toby from. It's it's a resort kind in southeast Silouisi
and Indonesia. Great fantastics are highly recommend it. The way
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the system works is they have their own charter plane
from Bali, so they fly on Mondays and Fridays and
you fly into Bali. You can stay at an airport
hotel which is actually quite nice, and the next morning
you go to the domestic terminal. They meet you at
the terminal, They take you to a coffee shop, they
have their own menu, You sit down, you have breakfast,
(07:31):
then they escort you to their own plane. They fly
you there. They then escort you to the resort. It's
it's done very very well. But the diving is phenomenal.
We were actually on the Pallagian, which is their liver
board boat. Some people on the on our boat were
staying afterwards and doing the house reef and some of
the some of the dives there. But the first day
(07:52):
we got there, they had us do lunch at the
actual resort and was unbelievable this buffet of just phenomenal food.
We kind of walked through the resort. It looks very
well organized, lots of boats. You can do shore diving.
Their house reef as well, over a mile long, and
at any time you want to dive the house reef,
(08:13):
you let them know.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They take your gear out to the dock.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
You get in the water, when you're done with your dog,
you fire in SMB and they send a boat and
come pick you up and take you back to the dock.
So it's pretty easy. They've got a bunch of boats,
you know. For day diving. We are on the liver board,
which normally holds ten people. We only had eight on
board with us, so there's only there's four cabins that
were used, and I think there's like nine or ten staff,
(08:38):
So there's nine or ten staff are only eight guests.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
So way, well, let me get this straight. So there's
a resort and there's a liver board there on the property,
so you have the option to be on both or
you just mix it up. I guess a little bit.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Is that the deal, right, We just did a week
on the liver board, So the people on a boat
did a week on the liver board and then stayed
for a week afterwards or five days afterwards at the resorts.
You can kind of mix and matches since you're going
that far, because the diving is a little different. Apparently
the land based diving is a little bit different than
is the liver board, which goes a little bit farther away,
both of which were great. Again, like I said, we
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took two zodiacs out of each day, so we only
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Speaker 9 (09:18):
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Speaker 8 (09:18):
And it was you know, typical, your typical four dives
a day, three during the day, one night dive. The
meals were unbelievable. I don't know how this chef did
the meals he did even probably the best food of
liver board. We've been a lot of liver boards ever.
They had a menu each day you'd pick from appetizers,
you picked your bain course, you picked your dessert, all
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that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
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I love it, Yes, I do too, but I do it.
This is the world's first radio show devoted to diving.
Cap Slate has a new YouTube channel. I saw that.
That's so cool. Yeah, so they're gonna start documenting some
of the creature feature dives. It looks like on a
regular basis, And if you could chost videos on YouTube,
that'd be a good way to promote the show. Maybe
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but I post I posted there's some I still from like, yeah,
what they are they're there? No they're not, Yes they
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it would pop up in my feed. Well, you have
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seen videos that we've put up there many times in
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Turks and Caicos. We have one. We haven't done a
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time flies. When you're bored to tears, speed it up,
tighten it up, kid, Yeah, okay. AnyWho, we've been talking
with doctor Doug ever Saw just got back from Indonesia
and he was at the Walk of Toby Resort and
evidently they got a live aboard both there too, which
is kind of interesting. I do feel really sorry for
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any employee there at that resort. God help them. If
their name is Toby, that would be terrible. Yeah, but
it would be mildly amusing, wasn't that. Oh there's old
wacky Toby. See Venny likes it like that, and I'm
not even the funny one. So God, I'm blessed.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Actually I didn't figure I couldn't figure it out, so
like you.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Know, until I spelled it out right there for you.
Well it's always best. It's always best when you can
explain your jokes.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So I figured it out after a while.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Okay, all right, well there you said Toby.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh that's pretty funny. Yeah, guy's name.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Still just chalk it up. Is another lesson from the Master.
You're welcome, good doctor Doug Evers. All help me please,
and uh well tell me about the dive. Uh there
you said. The diving on the liver board portion versus
land is wildly different. Like for instance, like I have
heard that their house reef there and walk Tooby is
(15:27):
is a bunk diving spot? Is that right? Or no?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, there's a there's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
It's a wall, okay, lots of again, we do the
liver boards.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I didn't dive the resort.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
But from what I was told, for the people who
had lots and lots of turtles, lots of marine life,
there's small stuff, big stuff, but it's uh but it's you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Know, beautiful. There's not Indonesia.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
There's not a lot of sharks, not a lot of bantas.
We did have turtles, you know, Like I said, there
was turtles on the house reef, but also we had
plenty of turtles out where we were.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Yeah, but aren't they famous for like a spot where
they have some muck diving there. I remember hearing this,
but I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Well, there's definitely different places. So we like on the
living board, we spent one day in a muck diving area.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Okay, that's where we had like the mating mandarin fish
at night.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Uh and you know, wonderpuls octopus and all this kind
of stuff. Sand it's kind of trash heap looking area.
So we spent one day that really cool critters, but
the rest of the time was walls and reefs and
all that sort of thing. So right, water was a
little chillier than I would have thought. I mean, it's
actually the water was like mid seventies.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Refreshed, so four.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Dives a day. Most people were in five mills, you know,
because by time chilli.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah, you know what I would do, you've used
your head, get warm water. H Yeah. I wouldn't come
in handy for crop. No, no crotch drop, no.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Lots of the stuff.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
It's a muck diving.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Muck diving, which is like it's usually like this volcanic
ash type of you know, sandy bottom doesn't look like
there's a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Really cool Yeah, yeah, yeah I didn't.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
We had We had one day of that, So one
day of muck diving, so you can see a lot
of very strange creaters. We had, you know, snake eels
and wonderful's octopus and blue ring octopus and.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Mandarin fish and all the kind of really weird critters.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
The rest of the time was typical beautiful walls or
reefs or whatever.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We had everything, like I said, from lots of turtles
to big cuddlefish to small cuddlefish, to pigmy sea horses
to a little bit of everything from small to big.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Yeah. Those blue ring octopus, by the way, some of
the most poisonous.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Animals make great plants here.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I don't think that's accurate. I think that's a very
bad suggestion.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Hey, we could do another another game at the show.
You could hold a blue ring octopus and we could
take bet how long before you got bit?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Will he die? Will he not?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Is there any abusing wildlife?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
So would I would basic? Yeah, what do they tell
you about the blue ring octopus in that regard.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I hear they're deadlier than hell.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Well, I mean it's only only if they fight with them,
like these out there.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Don't play with it, just leave it alone. It leaves
you alone.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Yeah, is that what it is? Like if they bite
you they have the poison or is it just.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
That ye look at you, Greg, They're very small. They're tiny.
They're tiny the lot of us.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Yeah, and they're not very aggressive obviously.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
If he's leaving, it's like the else underwater. Leave it alone,
it leaves you alone.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah. Well, it's like sea snakes like and uh, I
mean they do they have sea snakes there to you,
like in Australia. I mean those are you know, the
venom and a sea snake is like the most potent
venom on the planet. But but for them to actually
bite you and you literally you don't almost have to
take your finger and stick it down their mouth and uh,
and only if they're choking, well maybe I don't even know.
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I mean, it's extremely hard to be bitten. But when
you hear that they're the most venomum venomous snake on
the planet or something like that, and you know, that's
a little intimidating, but they don't bite people really.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, generally we had several sea snakes during the week.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Yeah, so it sounds impressive when you said, Hey, I
just dove with the most venomous snake on the planet.
I'm kind of a big deal. Hello. Yeah, I know
what you're thinking. If you have to say that, are you?
Are you cock Johnson? And I have to say no,
I'm not even cock Johnson, and I've done this chick sticket.
(19:40):
Just say, oh, yeah, Vinny has a question.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Maybe doctor Doug knows it's there's sea snakes and there's
something called crates.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
C Well, we had those for breakfast sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh what's the different? What's but you know what the
difference between one or the other is. They both look
like snakes.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
But one's a big brown box made of wood. One's delicious.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I'll kill you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Okay, No, I do you know what he's talking about,
doctor Doug? Or or no?
Speaker 14 (20:15):
The the crates are I think like the aquatic that
they actually they can be on land or go in
the ocean, and sea snakes are always in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right and crates aren't poisonous, I think too, right, Yeah,
it could be.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I know the crates have to lay they lay their
eggs on land or something.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Okay, well, so they ann he could get a pet crate.
That's what he wants. He wants a pet crate and
there's an apartment, there's a pet and it's not poisonous,
I'd be okay, is it sure?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Inappropriate? I think the inappropriate too.
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Speaker 15 (22:34):
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just sharing little tips and tricks on how to be
a better diver. But by the way, Kenny, have you
ever been to Wakatobi or Indonesia before? Is that on
your list?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I haven't. I was, It's on my list. I was
googling it while while we were talking about it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Yeah, you know, I saw an article this week about
top five dive destinations in the world, and you know,
we I've actually been asked to put together a list
like this. You know, what are your favorite dive sites
and and you know it's one thing to have an opinion.
Too much work. No, it's not too much work. I
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actually when I did when I did this many years ago,
I actually at that time, I've ranked Dominika as my
favorite dive destination. And so, you know, an individual, I
think can have favorite spots. I like to go. Fiji's
right up there, you know, and and stuff. There's placeless
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in the Cayman Islands. There's you know, there's even a
dive side or too in the Bahamas and places. There's
so many places you can go, and there's diving. There's
great diving no matter where you go in the world.
But when you sit there and say the top five
dive destinations in the world, according to what I mean
this article I read, I was like, wait a minute,
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hold on, you know this is you know, I don't
even know how you put a list together?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Meant to a lot of places. You could do it?
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Well I did, I did any about ten years ago.
I put out a list. I was asked to do
it for USA today and I did. But this was
my opinion. It wasn't, like, you know, based on any
kind of real data other than my experience of diving
over the years.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And I've been a lot of places.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Well okay, once again that's in opinion. But when you
put out an article say here's the top five dive
destinations in the world, well it didn't say according to who.
You don't have to get so pissy about it. Just
well no, I just thought that was I didn't think
the I don't understand your outrage, Well it was. I
(25:21):
just thought it was misleading. No, No, hold on, hold on,
you're misunderstandable. They I think for somebody who has not
been to these places, and you put out an article
set here's the top five dive destinations in the world,
and I look at the listen like this is hogwash language.
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I know, I know, I'm getting a little salty, but
I just thought that was a bit uh you know.
I'm not upset about it. I'm just a little annoyed
because if you were a if you were a new
diver and you saw this list, like, well, I got
to go to these five places, these are the five
best dive destinations in the world, and it's like, whoahoa,
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you don't put that out there. I don't think anybody
I think they could filter that through reason and not well,
you know, the five that destinations they put up there,
they were all valid dive destinations that are popular, for sure,
but I thought the order was wrong, and I thought
there were so many that were omitted that were better.
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Well that's the thing about lists, you know, everybody likes
to argue about him.
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Yeah, well, now wait a minute, are we talking about
our listeners evaluating this list. That's a different.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Well, of course it is. And once again it's a
you know, if someone puts out their opinion of here's
my five favorite dive destinations that every diver should go on.
Totally agree. But if you sit there and try to
do I mean, I don't even know how you do
the survey like that. I mean maybe Patty or Nawi
or put out for it so far, okay, would that
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be okay with you?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well?
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Maybe, but you don't put out a story as his
top five dive destination about.
Speaker 13 (27:10):
You said, list made by a scuba douche.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Yes, like me, which is what I did about ten
years ago, and I did the USA today asked me
to put this list together. Your problem is the title
of it. Not no, I My problem with it was
it was I thought it was not attributed properly and
for someone to read it, yeah, it wasn't. I mean,
(27:34):
you know, like I said, especially someone just getting into
scuba diving would read this list. I just take it
for granted. Well, that must be the top five dive
destination in the world.
Speaker 13 (27:43):
Dumb ass right lists comprised by scuba douches across the board.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Well, I mean I actually it might have been just one,
you know, a person who did it, but they didn't
really attribute it properly. If you asked me. So, yeah,
I might a little annoyed with it. Yes, is it
a big deal? No? But but you know, do I
get this question? Well no, I get this question all
the time as well as you guys have probably had
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this happen. I know doctor Doug and Kenny get this they.
You know, people come up and you know, a listener
or someone who watches your YouTube channel or whatever, and
they say, oh man, you've been all around the world.
What's your favorite place to go? What's your favorite dive? No,
there's nothing at all, but one of my standard questions
or answers to that is the next place I'm going
(28:30):
to go because they're so many great No, it's not
a cop out. It's the truth, because there's great diving
no matter where you go. Now, are there some favorite question? Though?
What is your favorite dive destination that you've been to? Okay, now,
you can't say the next one unless you're repeating. All right,
let's say I haven't been there, I haven't been to
(28:50):
an an Asia, I haven't been to Wakatobi. Okay, you've
been to so far. Well, you're putting it in a qualifier.
It wasn't in that questioning to make it so you
can answer it. You're being difficult. You're being difficult. Any
two tanks? What say you?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's very simple.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
Yeah, anytime you any media, whether it's whether it's online
or reading a book or a magazine or a newspaper. No, no,
here's my philosophy. And maybe I'm wrong. I only believe
half of what you read. Could then you only be
half wrong or half right? So okay, when you see
stuff you can you've got to think about it. And
(29:31):
you know you it's you know, when you see stuff
people put out, it may not like on this show,
if people believed everything we said, there'd be a lie problems.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I think you have to consider the source. If Greg
told me or if doctor Doug told me, I'd be
like that would carry Yeah, do a lot more places
than right. So okay, Well when you told me, I
think it was Maldives one of my favorite spots, right,
And I know you've been all over the world for
a long time and you said this is it holds
(30:06):
a little credibility, maybe my favorite place. I thought, wow,
it must be unbelievable. It is, absolutely it is.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Ok.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
That wasn't even in the top five, by the way
of this article. No, that article. I read this. Okay, well,
well that's what I'm saying. Wrong, and I don't want
people to get the wrong idea. You just said it's
an opinion, so well I'm saying it's opinion. They didn't
present it as an opinion. That was my gripe. Okay, see,
that's what I'm saying. There was no attribution though, where
(30:37):
isn't it I'm not I'm not splitting here. If one
person wrote it, then it's kind of understood it's an opinion. No,
it isn't. When you say, here are the top five
in the world. No, it said by nothing. That's what
I That was my point. It had no attribution to exactly.
It just presented this like this was fact. And I'm
(31:00):
I got your you got your rash guarden a watch. Well,
I'm just saying there's it's so uh. You don't want
people to get the wrong idea, you know, you don't
want them to be limited right out of the box.
They just read something to think it's totally accurate. I'm
very upset. Maybe take a breath. No, I will not.
I will not take a breath. I know.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
And they say, okay, gestations that gives them something to
shoot for in their diving.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
World, or research and figure out research. Okay, okay, you
guys say the dropping off point. It's not written the
glass is half full, that's what you're trying to we're
being positive. Well just well that means you guys are
full of crap. Let's not forget who's the genius here,
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Speaker 7 (32:36):
This is the world's first radio show to voted to diving.
I am Greg the Dive Master, And yeah, okay, so
we've been doing the show for twenty eight years, and uh,
you know, you have an opinion of your favorite dive
site or dive destination all around the world. And people
that have been maybe you know, around for a while,
been diving forever, have a little bit more experience, probably
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hold a little bit more clout than someone just starting diving.
That would make sense, right right, See the first sensible
thing you've said the whole show. Yeah, wow, No.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Your whole life.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Okay, thank you, Casey. I think you need your crappuccino. Yeah, well,
I don't know, doctor Doug. What do you think are
you following my I mean, my perturbedness about this type
of thing, or.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
Well, I mean I agree, it's it's every It depends
what you like to do, right, if someone is a
If someone's a wreck diver, then they take the ten
best wreck diving sites in the world of all like
Cold Water may pick that.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
So the list there's too many variables.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, people ask me that question.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
I had I reply with either what you said, which
is where I'm going next, or I say it depends
on my favorite once depends on what you're looking to see.
If you're looking to see sharks, it's different than it
was looking for beautiful reef. It's different than if you're
looking for caves.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Right, big animals, muck diving, yeah, yeah, live aboards, land base,
you know, top side attraction distractions, that kind of thing.
What do you think, Kenny, You got any thoughts one
way or another on that or what?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Believe it or not?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
We ask this question every time guests come into dive quest.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Oh yeah, sure, of course every day.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So hearing what everyone says is really interesting and having
done it for a while, the shop and all that
stuff looking back like you know, through a looking glass.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
People always ask me.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It always gets around to me and I kind of
had to stop saying this because they didn't like the answer.
And that is the one where I had the most
fun with everybody I was there with. That's what sticks
in my mind. We can get so focused on, oh,
there's really pretty whatever animal here. Then you go there
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and it is really cool. For the two one hour
dives you're down or whatever it is. Maybe doctor Doug
you're down there for six hours, but uh, for the
rest of us, just on regular old scuba tank, we're
there for a couple hours, and then then what you
got a whole day, you got a week, You got
eighty percent of your waking life has nothing to do
with the dive on these trips, plus your data weight
(35:14):
before you fly back, right, And so I started changing
my trips to start looking at whatever else was there.
Maybe this dive is like a ten as far as
shipwrecks or animals or whatever you're there to see, But
this one over here is like a seven or eight,
but there's all this other fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
For us to go do.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Sure, and there's a good tiki bar right there.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
Well right, and like you said, who your dive buddies are.
So if you're diving a tens and you're sharing that
experience with like Vinny two Tanks, Casey the tobacco Nut, uh,
it brings it down to a you know seven.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You're good to have a good time.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
I see what he's saying. It's like if you're bar worked,
we're there, It's right. It's like if you're dating a
supermodel is a total bitch? Oh okay ruins. So that
you're saying that would never happens a lot. Really okay,
But I get what he's saying. Yeah I do too.
(36:12):
It's uh, you know, it's the experience. It's and that
is the people that you dive with. I mean, let's
face it, that's kind of what scuba radio is based on.
One day, I am hoping to have a good time.
I mean, it's so we joke around a lot talking
about all the cool things we see underwater, but it's
really the people that we have around us that make
this so much fun. You know, we're kicking it, uh,
(36:35):
you know, talking about all our fish tails with our
friends every week on the show at the tiki bar.
That's kind of what we do on the show, and
that that's why it's so much fun to do this
and agony and at other times, which has probably been
the majority of the shows. What what's a you cout
Johnson peeing in cups? Okay, well, uh, you know, two
(36:56):
each his own. Yeah, why would you do that? There's
a right there.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
No, he's so dedicated. He does one of the microphone
from the show, you know, to.
Speaker 13 (37:07):
Be aware, I have no idea what that particularly rough weekend,
I won't say.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Okay, well thanks for bringing it up then, but regardless,
but yeah, I mean I think that's a very valid point, Kenny.
And it is, you know, and all my dives at
all I've done around the world, and I bet doctor
Doug feels the same way.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
There.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
There's certain things you remember, you know, whether it's in
Roatan or Indonesia or wherever you travel to, and you'll
remember this one encounter with a manta ray or a
whale shark or or you know whatever underwater, and you'll
remember this. But then for me, I look back and
it all blurs together. Where was I? Was I in
the Fiji, was I in the Bahamas? But but then
(37:50):
I'll remember the people. Like one of the reasons I'd
love Fiji so much is that the people of Fiji
are so friendly and just bring you into their home.
You drink kava with them, and you have this you know,
cultural exchange. It's like on another level. And I remember
those way way more than I remember the individual dives,
(38:11):
you know, with particular critters and things like that. Arguing
over golf carts and Bimini. Yes, right, you don't ever
want to do that, but you remember those Sometimes you know,
the experiences may be hazardous. I wasn't involved, but it
was hilarious. Yeah, true. There. You know, there's things that
(38:32):
happened that some sometimes you know, where someone gets mildly
mild abrasion or visually scarred from like red spanks on
a liver board boat. Yeah, but I don't know. I
don't think that's just us, but it could be that
(38:52):
that might be so. But you remember those things and
it gives you another story in the arsenal dive.
Speaker 13 (39:00):
One of my top dive destinations would be Bimini because
I remember all sharing cigars and drinks in the sandbar.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
See he remembers that I blocked it out, remember anything. Okay,
well that maybe I just blacked out because we were
drinking rama and you are drinking that much. Okay, you're
drinking the least of anything. Yeah, but but it is.
You know, there are so many great dive sites all
around the world, and you can find a great dive
(39:32):
no matter where you are on the planet. It could
be a quarry and in the Midwest someplace, or up
in the Northeast someplace, or you could be you know,
halfway around the world and in the Maldives out in
the middle of the all these atolls they have in
in the uh in the mall these with whale sharks,
and the experience and the feeling is the same. It's magical,
(39:55):
you know. Yes, so there you go. So you know,
I I guess just the moral of this whole segment
or two is just don't do articles where you say,
here's the top five destinations in the world. God, yeah,
got it? Yeah, I mean you can. You can give
(40:15):
us your opinion.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
There's a lot of work just to get there.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Greg Well, I apologize, he's very cranky Top five destinations. Go, Vinnie,
what are they for you?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
For me?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Indonesian Philippines?
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Yeah, that's two or two?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Those two?
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Okay? And three more?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Three more?
Speaker 7 (40:38):
I know, I'm I'm I'm really testing you. Wow, there's
one two?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
All right, come back, Cosmo, I went there.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
Okay, he says three. That's three two more, come on.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You can do it more okay his brain by the way.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Fiji, Fiji's there.
Speaker 7 (40:58):
Okay, just one more, that's all we need. Vinnie, Okay,
one more, Vinnie two tanks Top five dive destinations. Oh
kay uh, he's gonna stroke out.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (41:15):
Just name a place, just name any name of place that.
Speaker 13 (41:20):
I can't even think of thatand.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I didn't dive there, but yeah, I love Thailand.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
Okay, all right, that's close enough.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
A boa.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Hey look at the time. Wow, wow, just wow. What
a great way to endo the show. Thank you, Benny
the Radio Gold, Radio.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Gold, forget.
Speaker 7 (41:42):
I'm sorry, all right until next week. Remember it's always
better where it's save dive than everyone would dive in show.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
Captain around to Jock dustoo.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Y'all radio down.
Speaker 14 (42:00):
Oh if you want to stay and no, if you
because you rives there you want to be there.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
On radio.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Media Scuba Radio, it's a production of overboard entertainment and corporating.
Speaker 6 (42:18):
This seems the logical place for fish to congregate.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Remember, you could listen live or to archives of past
editions of Scuba Radio worldwide over the internet at scuba
radio dot com.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Oh we're in international waters.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Indeed's soul, tell a brand and buddy up with your
radio every week for Scuba Radio, the world's first radio
show devoted to diving. Well, it's all very nice yet,
but we should be going. I miss me wife in
me oxygen. Yes, we all miss our loved ones and guts.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (42:49):
The opinions you just heard on Scuba Radio are those
of the hosts, callers, and guests.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Okay, you know what I just heard.
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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management or advertisers on scuba diving does involve risk. It
should never be conducted without proper instruction and training.
Speaker 15 (43:09):
What's the worst thing that could happen?
Speaker 6 (43:11):
I could die?
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