September 27, 2025 • 43 mins
This week Greg The Divemaster checks in with Ron from across the pond, who just got inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame! Looking for HOUR2?
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Speaker 5 (01:07):
And welcome. This is the world's first radio show devoted
to diving. Special edition of the Big broadcast today because
I'm on the road, I'm traveling doing some family stuff.
So I figured this would be a good time to
reach out to some folks that we haven't chatted with
for a while. And the first up on the agenda
is my good friend Roslin from the UK. We call
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her Roz from across the Pond, and she is on
Scuba Radio with us. Now, Roz, how you doing? Are
you besting? Yeah? Are you basking in the afterglow? Being
inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame there
in the Cayman Islands or what?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think? They haven't really touched for grant yet, Greg.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Ye, Well, I can understand that's a pretty big deal. Yeah,
I mean last weekend Roz was in the Cayman Islands
along with Anne Hassen, and I don't know. The class
was what five or six people that got inducted into
the International Diving Hall of Fame there in the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or what rise something like.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
There was international and then there was local because they
always recognize local people and they recognize international people.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Uh huh, okay. But Ann Hassen, who was one of
the founding members of the Aggressor Fleet, let's see, and
we also had Josiah. You've got Michelle Cove. Yeah, yeah,
that's right right.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And then you've got Heidi U who came in from
Hong Kong who's been doing with ghost fishing and some
environmental stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, yeah, Women Divers Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Then you've got Simone Melshaw Custo and that was she
was posthumous.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
She was the first wife.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Ah, very nice. It's quite a thing. And we've been
talking about doing a scuber radio broadcast the last few
years from the induction ceremony there at the International Diving
Hall of Fame and the Cayman Islands and we just
haven't been able to put it together just yet, but
it's going to happen at some point. Last well, last
several years. Every September they induct a new class in Roslind.
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She was one of them that was inducted in what
category or was it a category that you were inducted
through or just like, hey she's Roz. We got to
get her in the Hall of Fame because she's awesome.
Not quite Oh, come on, surely that's the I know
that's the truth, because you kind of are Roz. Come on,
kind of a big deal.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
It was from my sustained work over the last three decades,
which has been very nice.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah. Well, it's always good to get an accolade every
now and then. It's well deserved. So congratulations to you.
First off, I should probably get that out of the way.
But when you go, well, how long ago did you
hear that you were going to be, you know, part
of the class at twenty twenty five? I mean, did
you just find this out recently or has it been
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a few.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Months or what it was about March?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Okay, I think it was about March, right, But I
found out and this was the first time I've put
in a class of all women.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Divers, which was pretty cool, right.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
And then we had local inductees as well, So we
had like Jason Bellport from Cayman Brack and we had Regime.
I known Regime years and he was inducted too. He
works at Dive Tech. Okay, so very very good to
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see them coming into h Sure.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, I mean, and they got a pretty cool new
facility there, and Grand Grant came in for the International
Diving Hall of Fame, don't they. It's like a museum
type of thing. I've heard about it. I haven't been there,
but is that where the ceremony was, I assume, So.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You know, on Wednesday night we all went over for
a party at the museum okay, which was really cool
but local before local inductees with Jason Bellport, Peter Hill
and Brand, Courtney Platt.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Michael stut and then the emerging honoree was Regime Parry.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
And on Wednesday night we went to the museum and
we had a party museum. And then on Saturday night,
last Saturday night, we had a dinner an induction ceremony
at Hotel Indigo in Grand Cayman, Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That food is amazing, I have to say, I bet yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I mean, they know how to throw a good party.
I've I've heard of this, and you know, get a
bunch of divers together with some fancy food and potentially
an open bar. God knows what can happen, but that
sounds like a pretty good event. But that museum that
you went to on Friday, uh, you know all those
names you just listed off, I don't know them all.
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But that's one of the cool things about the you
know about the facility is you can go there on
your surface interval if you're going to the game in
Islands visit the International Diving Hall of Fame, learn about
these folks contributions to the dive industry and what they've
done for our sport. And that's really what the facility
is there to do, is just kind of, you know,
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educate people accordingly on what the diving pioneers and folks
before us have, you know, opened up to the rest
of the world for the current day diver. You think they've.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Got some really nice artifacts there. They've got some.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Items from Ron and Valerie Taylor on display was which
was very good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting. It's a lovely
little venue.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It's on the way to Ocean Frontiers and it's it's
worth popping in if you get the opportunity to do so.
And it's a lovely venue to go and have drinks
at or celebrate success at for other things.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, well, divers have a tendency to drink like fish
when they're not diving, so might as well learn a
little bit about diving, have yourself a cocktail and and
just read up and educate yourself accordingly. Now, when they
have the induction ceremony that you went to loud this weekend,
you get up and do an acceptance speech. Is that
how this thing structured or what?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
So the Cayman Islands Ministry of Tourism supports this. They
have done they founded it in two thousand and then
the honored pioneers, innovators and advocates that are inducted, we're
all given an opportunity to give a short speech. We're
given a lovely award which is made out came a
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night and they do a short video on us as well.
It was very well put together and it's nice, but
it's not the usual suspects. You go through the list
of people who are in it and it's like the
no gies.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You've got people in there. You go who are they
never heard of them?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
And we go and look up what they've done and
they've done some remarkable stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well, and that's the thing that's the point of having
a facility like this, because it's even for someone like
me who's been doing scuba radio for twenty eight years,
I honestly don't know probably fifty percent of the people
that get inducted into these things, and you need to
have a facility like this to kind of record people's
contributions to the dive industry that you may not be
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aware of, and when you go to the facility and
read about it and see what they did, you're kind
of awestruck and realize, like, gosh, I wish I would
have known this person a little bit more in the past,
I guess. And then bringing it up to the future,
you know, more we learned about what our diving pioneers
have done just make us better divers currently and in
the future.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do you agree, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I decided to name check my fellow Brits in my
talk because I thought it was important to highlight what
they had done and what they'd contributed to diving, right
because the names that not everybody will know will be
aware of.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Like I said, that's a very important thing. There's so
many pioneers that have made diving better for us today
that you may not know their name, but when you
read their story, it's pretty it's just all inspiring. Really,
it's a little humbling too, now that you're part of
that group. I would imagine was that a pretty heavy
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lift when you did your little acceptance speech or where
you're kind of like, ah, you know what, I should
have been here ten years ago, which I don't think
that's probably your vibe. What do you think.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm still shocked when you look at the calibate. So
I'm going to name a couple of Brits for you.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Okay, well, i'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Hold on, We're going to give the Brits their prop
no doubt. But let's take a quick break. Come back
with Roz from the UK Slash inductee into the International
Diving Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty five. Next
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I am Greg the Dive Master. I got Roz from
the UK Roz Lund as her name, and she was
just inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame class
at twenty twenty five in the Cayman Islands last weekend.
And let me get this straight. Are you the first
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British diver that got inducted? Okay, but they're underrepresented in
your regard.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You think I'm the first British female diver.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Ah, there you go, all right, and it's been a
long time coming, but we've finally crossed that threshold and
now we got a female brit diver in the Hall
of Fame. Well deserved because you know Roz, she does
rebreather stuff. She's done so many different things you literally
need a museum to document it all so you can
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go read about what she's contributed to the industry, not
to mention that she's just an all around great person
to hang with at the dive events and that's how
we've gotten to nowhere over the years here on Scuba Radio.
So congrats once again for that and the other Brits
that you wanted to like Spotlight or you know kind
of break through the barrier for the Hall of Fame
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were who so.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Thanks Greg, So they are there are five rits so
as Henry Flues right, And in eighteen seventy eight he
invented the first practical self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He his design was clever.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
He basically soaked rope yonn in caustic potash and made a.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Scrubber from it. Okay, so it was a little rebreather.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And his bold innovation helped shape the concept of close
circuit rebreathers. But we used today and we use them
in all sorts of aspects of diving, don't we to
military rescue, cinematography, exploration, technical diving. So there was him,
and then there was John Scott Haldane, who was a
brilliant British scientist who's made diving safe for all of
us because in the early nineteen hundreds he studied how
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gases affect the human body and develop the first decompression tables,
you know, these guidelines that help us return to the
service to avoid decompression sickness.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Pretty important stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
So he's work laid for foundation for modern dive medicine
and physiology and it seemed really fitting that in particular
these two were in But these two were in here
in the Cayman Islands because of Nancy used to Brook
because in two thousand and four she set up the
world's first or rebreathe, a diving event in a space
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and it's where valuable diving physiology and research takes place.
So these three have collided and Nancy is quite rightly
recognized also by this Internecal Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And then the other two.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I'm kind of it's a funny that there's this tenuous
link to me and them all of these is the
British storytellers Bernardy Eton and Kendall MacDonald. Now Bernard transformed
the British Shabbaqua Club's magazine Triton into Diving magazine and
organized countless dive shows and exhibitions on Kendall, a fellow journalist,
helped popularize diving through books that made underwater exploration exciting
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and accessible, and he also built an interest in marine conservation.
And then the fifth brit of course, is the networker
Leslie Line, and he was the first executive director of
the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. And he helped
shape the museum at on Cayman and he also co
founded the Historical Diving Society of America, and his deep
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knowledge and leadership have preserved the history of diving and
expanded its global reach.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And then you've got me.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Said, somebody made a mistake rise that's not accurate at all,
Just so we're clear. She's very modest. But yeah, I mean,
what do you think your contribution? You've done a lot
when it to dive media, especially you know, out of
that part of the world of the UK. But but
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you're big time into tech diving. You've worked with governments
as far as trying to maintain you know, the quality
of dive shops in the area and the UK and
stuff like that. And then you travel around the world
and meet slubs like me and kind of tell us
what's going on in your neck of the woods. So
I don't know, what do you think was the hook
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that got you into the Hall of Fame? Do you
have a idea yourself? Or no?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I figured you were going to say that. See it's
hard because you know, I know Roz and I know
she's modest, But you know, that's how you know, someone's real.
You hear what I'm saying. Roz. You know you've done
a ton for the industry and it's well well deserved
for you to be in the International Hall of Fame.
You know, everybody in the dive industry not just there
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or you are, but around. You know, you come to
the DIMA show, you know all the folks in the
US and the cane demens, you name it, Rise has
been there and done it, whether it's diving what the
Andrei d'oria and doing all this tech diving stuff rebating
what Rex, did you do the Britannic You did some
crazy diving like that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I've worked on a couple of Britannic expeditions, yes, I'm so.
Carl Spencer's one and then John Chatchan and Richie Cokohlers
won in the early two thousands and worked as a
production assistant on it as well.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That was fascinating.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
But tell you what was really cool this week was
that the Department of Tourism in Kayman, they really looked
after us. They put on this program where we went
out for schools and we talked to a lot of
school children about what we do in diving, possible careers.
Women Divers Hall of Fame highlighted their valuable scholarships.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Was really cool.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Jason Bellport, he highlighted the fact that he works in
Cayman Brack and he's, oh, his photographs are to die for,
they're really beautiful. And he talks about conservation out there
and what it's like to work in the sister Islands
and so on, and how local kids can get involved
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in diving because they've got a program I believe to
enable the school children to get trained, and it was all.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Really positive stuff.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
We had this little girl come out to ask us
if she could get a scholarship or how she could
get a scholarship because she's interested in doing dentistry, and
we highlighted the fact that you know, you could potentially
be a serving dentist. You could work in the forces
and become a dentist looking after serving personnel's teeth, or
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you could become a dentist and earn money and work
in conservation or something like that. So hopefully we might
see her in ten or twenty years time some quite
interesting diving.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, it was it was really really empowering.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Greg Well, I have no doubt when you can pay
it forward and say, look, I got into the International
Diving Hall of Fame. You could be me, you know,
five ten years from now. Take my dive plan and
go with it and maybe I can help you, you know,
trim up the times a little bit. It's it's about
paying it forward. That's what it's all about, right Roz. Yeah, absolutely,
and Roz from the UK rosline well deserved to be
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in the International Diving Hall of Fame. And even better
the fact that we get to call our friend of
Scuba radio. That's a bigger honor, at least from me.
She tolerates un Oh gosh, she's so modest. All right,
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This is the world's first radio show devoted to diving.
I am Greg the dive Master. That's pretty cool. Ro's
getting inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame there
in the Cayman Islands. You know, someday maybe they'll be
not me, but maybe one of the Scuba Radio Scuba
Squad members will be inducted. That won't happen, but I
do have them connected via the web on the show today.
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And that is made up currently of Gerry the Diver Guy,
Barry the Mugger of Vinny two Tanks, and we got
the aka Gypsy Brittany as well. Now, Brendy might have
a shot to do it. Actually, Cox Johnson's with us too.
He won't thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I'm glad you forgot me.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yes, and uh but but I yes, you see, that's
what happens when he's not in the studio with me.
I just forget about him. Uh, but Brittany might have
a Brittany might have a shot and get it into
the International Diving Hall of Fame someday. Uh do you
aspire to such accolades, Brittany? You think, okay, see, hey,
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well there you go. And she's really.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I want to get into the Women's Hall of Fame, Women's.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, get go Okay, you want to get into the
Women's Diving Hall of Fame first, and then the internationals.
I think you just skip. I think you go straight
to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, you know,
women Diving Hall of Fame. That's fine too, But why why,
uh why you even bother? Just go right to the mountain,
top of the mountain. Greg, Yes, sir c J. Be realistic.
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I am trying.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Greg.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
You're just show us because you can't get into the
Women's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
It's jelly, it's jelly, he calls it this.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Day nowadays, he had a good chance of getting into
the way.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Exactly depends on what I'm wearing. I guess that was perfect.
He's very's that's not accurate, all right. Getting back to
Brittany though, I mean, I think out of the entire crew,
she's the only one has like a chance in hell
to ever be inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame.
So maybe someday we'll be talking about going to visit
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Brittany's you know exhibit like roz now has at the
International Diving Hall of Fame museum there and the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
On the criteria, Greg, I mean, do you have to
have a certain amount of dives?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You gotta be awesome, you gotta be someone who contributed
to the dive industry and like first ballot hey Cox
Johnson says name and diving is well, see that's your
alter ego. Though, So I think they only accept.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Uh, not your silly characters in your silly show.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
That's uh, that'd be like you were on Scuba Radio.
But we're gonna let that slide, right.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Well, Yeah, I don't know, but I do think Brittany
has a shot though, because she's you know, she's breaking
down barriers. She's uh, you know, showing what an aspiring
young female can accomplish in this dive industry, just like Rod's.
I mean, you know, Rod's big time you know, tech diver,
rebreather and stuff like that. I mean, Brittany's doing her
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own thing in that regard, sharing the love of diving,
certifying new people, bringing them into the sport, running her
own little dive business. And you know down in South Florida,
she's done it all.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Why didn't you mention that? Give her a little.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Plug taking Vinny on trips.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, well, that the most challenging, Yeah, exactly. It's it's
kind of like a special needs type of like, uh,
you know, like a handicapped scuba diver association learning.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
She needs some therapy after she sees them in his shorts.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Well, every time I go diving with Brittany, I found
out there's more and more. I just don't know about diving.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Or just educational being a human being.
Speaker 13 (27:26):
But diving is is the key.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well, that's the common bond.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
There's several lessons to laugh you need to learn, Bennie.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Yeah, here's the here's the first one with Minnie Vinnie
Boom giants straight off. So I'll watch him. I'm like,
I'm always the.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
First one in the water, some underwater looking up and
watching him.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Boom giants straight off the boat immediately, doesn't ever look
for another diver at all. Immediately boom either. Want number one,
straight down to the bottom. Number two. Here's here's the
battle of the boat. Everybody's like, Okay, we're anchored in, you.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Know, from the bow of the boat.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Just swim to the bow, go down the anchor line.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Forgot find finds the back of the boat.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Boom, God, you're in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Well, usually at the back of I'm at the bow
of the boat, and of course I'm like timing him boom.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Eight minutes later it comes.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Back, And of course every time he comes back he'll be.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Like this, what the heck? What do I do?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yeah, usually this is covered in uh.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Yeah, never pick your head up. Like the second that
he hits the water, he's just gone.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Well, yeah, straight to the bottom. Not the plan unless
they tell you that in the dive briefing. Don't you
pay attention to the dive briefing.
Speaker 13 (28:35):
Vinnie Well, one of the first couple of drives. We
were supposed to go down, and I just kept doing it.
I forgot that I didn't listen.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You were supposed to stay at the surface and wait
and go down with.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Everybody fused, confused or confused, or.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You just didn't listen and forgot.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's that's exactly correct.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I well, you went down to like one hundred and
fifty three feet.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
Hey, there's nobody down, there's no where do they go?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Wait a minute, so where was this? This is in
the Caymans and Fiji, and you just jumped off the boat,
went right down to one fifteen, straight.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Down eighteen and I go, there's nobody there.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Where the hell are they?
Speaker 13 (29:16):
I go, I can't find him?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
So like I went back to the surface.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
He never in the dive profile. It's lucky that he
even knows how deep he was because he doesn't know
how to read his computers.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Okay, probably shows a graft of him going up and
down looking for people.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He doesn't know how to read.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
A Jeric tells me I can read that one.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Well, there's that, But so do you use Vinnie Brittany
as a dive instructor? Like, Okay, I want you to
observe Vinnie two tags and do exactly the opposite of him,
and you're going to be a great diver.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Sa It actually cautionary tale.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
We got to a certain point where I said, Vinnie,
one more antiic out of you, and I'm going to
smash your head.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Hellick violence.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
But that's how frustrated I was.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Wow, okay, unfixable, unteachable.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Or it just goes to show I'm getting better.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
But I.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Mean, I will say that the great thing about Brittany
is not only she is a great dive instructor, but
obviously she has an amount of patience that that I've
never seen. I never thought this was possible to be
so forgiving as uh as the aqua gypsy. And that's yep, yep,
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you definitely do. I mean because from the yeah, I've
heard of this.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Maybe crack once once in a while.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
But you know it's uh, I mean, that's a you know,
that's a great trait. I mean, that should get you
in the Hall of Fame just for that one.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
For not killing Vinnie.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Yes, yeah, but I don't think that's how they look
at potential candidates. So I don't even know. We guys,
we'll have to figure out. What are the you know,
rules of how people are you know, inducted. It's probably
a nomination thing from a big group of people on
the dive industry and that kind of thing. I don't know,
but it's a cool thing. And I've heard about the
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museum there in the Cayman Islands. I have not been
there myself yet, but I've heard some pretty cool things
about it, and it's definitely on my list next time
I go to Grand Cayman, and I know Britney's been there,
Vin he's been there. We'll talk about that and some
other places that we want to go, you know, whether
it's to go, you know, add another dive to our
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log book that you know, expand the horizons and share
the love of diving, or just the cool things you
do on the surface interval. That's what we're going to
discuss next. With the Scuba Radio scuba squads stay close
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Speaker 1 (31:54):
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Speaker 7 (32:08):
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Speaker 1 (32:15):
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Speaker 14 (32:26):
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Speaker 3 (32:42):
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Speaker 14 (32:45):
And what's such radio show I'm already could.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Do with the genius of that is a genius, the
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Speaker 5 (33:00):
The world's first radio show devoted to diving. I am
Greg the dive Master aka Uncle Genius, And that's kind
of it sounds like one of the scuba radio scuba
sports and I'd say Old Hayes there probably has a
better shot at getting into the International Diving Hall of
Fame than any of us, with the exception of Brittany.
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I mean Brittany. I think she might actually try. She
might bring our crew up just to Tad and might
be able to represent us in the future.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Craig, why are you sucking up to Brittany so hard?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Because she's way better than all of us? Honey, that's right,
Hell yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw some cheap imitation of
hot Honey this week. You know, Brittany's We've talked about
this before, and uh, I think it was some other
guy probably probably heard about your Hot Honey and tried
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to copy your success because you had a batchel.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Can you register that name hot Honey?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
No, it's actually food.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Really maybe, but it was like Nate's Hot honey or something, and.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
I'm sure's hot honey.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, homestead, I think why not Brittany's hot Honey. That's
what you were doing.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
You need to attach a personality to hot honey.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Okay, that's one of many businesses.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
Yeah, it's the little bee with the fire on his butt.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Yeah, that's good logo.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yeah, fire on his butt. That's always good. Uh yeah,
So have you Okay? I know Brittany, Vinnie and myself
have been to the Caymans. What about you, Jerry? Have
you been to the Cayman Islands?
Speaker 7 (34:55):
No?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
No, and Barry is not either, but it hasn't been anywhere.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But I've been to the Cayman Islands a few times
and it's you know, it's been a while since I've been.
I know you guys been there recently in the last
couple of years. I went and did a nice little
adventure there, but I just haven't been back in a while.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
But it's an easy for asking.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
No, I knew you haven't if I well, yeah, I mean,
you know the CJ. He wants to go to a
lot of places, Greig, what.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
You're trend to say is if I haven't been there,
CJ hasn't been there.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
That's what you're about to say.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
No, no, no, I've been there. But I knew he
hadn't been there. Well, I haven't been there recently. Yeah,
it's probably been ten years, i'd say. But I used
to go to the Caymans quite often. Actually, there's a
few times, you know, there's a time there when i'd
go there, you know, once every six months a year
or so. Because I went to game in Brack did
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not cruise ship. No, I went over there, did Cayman
Brack did uh, you know Bloody Baywall in that part.
And then I've been to Cayman, you know. Grant came
in was one of the first destinations I went as
a certified diver. I actually when I went to Grand
came and that was the first time I kind of
had a marine interaction with a kind of like a
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friendly critter and it was a well, I don't know,
it was a Nassau grouper that was very used to divers,
and they took us to the site and said, hey,
we got a resident grouper here that loves to hang
with the divers. And he'll it's he's probably going to
swim right up to you and hang and that kind
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of thing. I'm like, really, And sure enough we went
down and this grouper comes up, gets right in your
face and I reached my hand out, and I'm like,
he wants me to tickle him or something, and and
so I reached my hand under and and kind of
tick under, the tickled his belly. I tickled his belly
and he just kind of turned. He turned on his
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side like, oh ah, that's it. That's the spot. That's
a spot.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Creepy.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
It was like fish, how do I know.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
What the anatomy of the fish?
Speaker 5 (37:08):
It was? It was the bottom of the fish, a belly.
It was the belly of him.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
It was there's more than a belly down there.
Speaker 13 (37:18):
I think you were touching something else.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Did you know where did you jiggle fish?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
There was no it was it was a soft caress
and there was no no diddling. God, so, uh, the
grouper maybe he's a group of grooker, but but the
grouper liked it, and I could tell it was a
really cool interaction and I'd never witnessed something like that.
And after that, well, that was the interaction that I
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had years ago that made me, uh, never attempt to
or or never try to eat grouper again. I love group.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I think Greg that you would be a good in
for those jobs at uh you know with.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
The whales, the whales, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah, you know the currency of the whales.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
And a couple of weeks ago the squad, Yes, c J.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Do you guys like to eat grouper? Yes?
Speaker 9 (38:20):
I don't recall ever having grouper?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
What what?
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I don't recall places down by you, I know, but
I with you, I just don't get out that.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
What kind of fish? What kind of fish do you eat? Then?
All right?
Speaker 12 (38:35):
I know I eat snapper, eatper, and know what's that
other one the dumb fish, the one that you can
fish hog fish?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Yeah, which is salmon?
Speaker 12 (38:48):
We eat a lot of sam okay Jerry's.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
And right, like I said, I'm gonna know because I
had that encounter with that grouper and it was hard
for me to kind of a you know, have that
encounter with this animal and then go I'm gonna go
eat them now.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I was like, probably, it's probably to be on the
safe side. Somebody are probably shot at groupern.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Na, not this one. This one was protected because it
was somebody I think.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I think pigs are really sweet too, but I'm not
giving up bacon.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Well, yeah, but have you ever had a encounter with
a pig and kind of bonded with it?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Did you ever tickle its bottom?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I've seen grouper though, and I will eat the hell
out of some group or I love it.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
That's uh, grouper.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
What about what about do you eat grouper? I do?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Yeah, but I have had a similar experience as Greg,
and I didn't tickle it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Of course you were appropriate. You're not supposed to touch
the sea life, Greg.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
Well, I didn't know I was. I was very much.
I was very much a beginner diving.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You know what, just admitting this on the air, you
just disqualified yourself from ever getting into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
The babies and is in his mind history of Dibby Museum.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
What do you mean? What are you trying to say?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
You're a loser in his dreams?
Speaker 8 (40:15):
He is, Greg got some awarded.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
What it's called takes to me?
Speaker 7 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, to.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Me about it? No, well, yeah, scuba radio got wave
medsonal boundaries.
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Do not stand behind greg that closely.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, you know, I know.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Over the year, when you get to know.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Drinks are flowing, it's late at night. I get it. Huh, Bondle,
you're sharing a hotel room.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Take them? Yeah, okay, you guys, do you like to
eat grouper?
Speaker 7 (40:59):
You know I'm West Coast.
Speaker 13 (41:00):
I've never had a chance to try.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
Oh my god, you guys may sick.
Speaker 9 (41:06):
In the West Coast.
Speaker 13 (41:07):
Do you know I hate grouper?
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Come because we ate it together in Florida.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Oh, you didn't know what it was.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
That's the difference. It's fish. He's had fish before, but
he doesn't know if he's at grouper.
Speaker 12 (41:20):
Sometimes you can go to a restaurant and you wonder
if the fish that they're selling is actually what.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Maybe if we connect a small motorcycle battery to Vinnie's brain,
maybe he.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
Can shock yeah, really into it. Just a small one
small voltage.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
It's a live not.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
A car battery, a motorcycle or a scooter.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I have about squirrel cage ever, just put small on them.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Okay, maybe you guys are no help whatsoever, so let's regroup.
We'll come back an hour two and talk more of
the Scuba Radio Scooter Squad and where we want to
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Oh we're in international waters.
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Speaker 5 (01:07):
And welcome. This is the world's first radio show devoted
to diving. Special edition of the Big broadcast today because
I'm on the road, I'm traveling doing some family stuff.
So I figured this would be a good time to
reach out to some folks that we haven't chatted with
for a while. And the first up on the agenda
is my good friend Roslin from the UK. We call
(01:28):
her Roz from across the Pond, and she is on
Scuba Radio with us. Now, Roz, how you doing? Are
you besting? Yeah? Are you basking in the afterglow? Being
inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame there
in the Cayman Islands or what?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think? They haven't really touched for grant yet, Greg.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Ye, Well, I can understand that's a pretty big deal. Yeah,
I mean last weekend Roz was in the Cayman Islands
along with Anne Hassen, and I don't know. The class
was what five or six people that got inducted into
the International Diving Hall of Fame there in the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Or what rise something like.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
There was international and then there was local because they
always recognize local people and they recognize international people.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Uh huh, okay. But Ann Hassen, who was one of
the founding members of the Aggressor Fleet, let's see, and
we also had Josiah. You've got Michelle Cove. Yeah, yeah,
that's right right.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
And then you've got Heidi U who came in from
Hong Kong who's been doing with ghost fishing and some
environmental stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, yeah, Women Divers Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Then you've got Simone Melshaw Custo and that was she
was posthumous.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
She was the first wife.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Ah, very nice. It's quite a thing. And we've been
talking about doing a scuber radio broadcast the last few
years from the induction ceremony there at the International Diving
Hall of Fame and the Cayman Islands and we just
haven't been able to put it together just yet, but
it's going to happen at some point. Last well, last
several years. Every September they induct a new class in Roslind.
(03:06):
She was one of them that was inducted in what
category or was it a category that you were inducted
through or just like, hey she's Roz. We got to
get her in the Hall of Fame because she's awesome.
Not quite Oh, come on, surely that's the I know
that's the truth, because you kind of are Roz. Come on,
kind of a big deal.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
It was from my sustained work over the last three decades,
which has been very nice.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah. Well, it's always good to get an accolade every
now and then. It's well deserved. So congratulations to you.
First off, I should probably get that out of the way.
But when you go, well, how long ago did you
hear that you were going to be, you know, part
of the class at twenty twenty five? I mean, did
you just find this out recently or has it been
(03:54):
a few.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Months or what it was about March?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Okay, I think it was about March, right, But I
found out and this was the first time I've put
in a class of all women.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Divers, which was pretty cool, right.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
And then we had local inductees as well, So we
had like Jason Bellport from Cayman Brack and we had Regime.
I known Regime years and he was inducted too. He
works at Dive Tech. Okay, so very very good to
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see them coming into h Sure.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, I mean, and they got a pretty cool new
facility there, and Grand Grant came in for the International
Diving Hall of Fame, don't they. It's like a museum
type of thing. I've heard about it. I haven't been there,
but is that where the ceremony was, I assume, So.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You know, on Wednesday night we all went over for
a party at the museum okay, which was really cool
but local before local inductees with Jason Bellport, Peter Hill
and Brand, Courtney Platt.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Michael stut and then the emerging honoree was Regime Parry.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
And on Wednesday night we went to the museum and
we had a party museum. And then on Saturday night,
last Saturday night, we had a dinner an induction ceremony
at Hotel Indigo in Grand Cayman, Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That food is amazing, I have to say, I bet yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I mean, they know how to throw a good party.
I've I've heard of this, and you know, get a
bunch of divers together with some fancy food and potentially
an open bar. God knows what can happen, but that
sounds like a pretty good event. But that museum that
you went to on Friday, uh, you know all those
names you just listed off, I don't know them all.
(05:45):
But that's one of the cool things about the you
know about the facility is you can go there on
your surface interval if you're going to the game in
Islands visit the International Diving Hall of Fame, learn about
these folks contributions to the dive industry and what they've
done for our sport. And that's really what the facility
is there to do, is just kind of, you know,
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educate people accordingly on what the diving pioneers and folks
before us have, you know, opened up to the rest
of the world for the current day diver. You think they've.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Got some really nice artifacts there. They've got some.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Items from Ron and Valerie Taylor on display was which
was very good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting. It's a lovely
little venue.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It's on the way to Ocean Frontiers and it's it's
worth popping in if you get the opportunity to do so.
And it's a lovely venue to go and have drinks
at or celebrate success at for other things.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, well, divers have a tendency to drink like fish
when they're not diving, so might as well learn a
little bit about diving, have yourself a cocktail and and
just read up and educate yourself accordingly. Now, when they
have the induction ceremony that you went to loud this weekend,
you get up and do an acceptance speech. Is that
how this thing structured or what?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
So the Cayman Islands Ministry of Tourism supports this. They
have done they founded it in two thousand and then
the honored pioneers, innovators and advocates that are inducted, we're
all given an opportunity to give a short speech. We're
given a lovely award which is made out came a
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night and they do a short video on us as well.
It was very well put together and it's nice, but
it's not the usual suspects. You go through the list
of people who are in it and it's like the
no gies.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You've got people in there. You go who are they
never heard of them?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
And we go and look up what they've done and
they've done some remarkable stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well, and that's the thing that's the point of having
a facility like this, because it's even for someone like
me who's been doing scuba radio for twenty eight years,
I honestly don't know probably fifty percent of the people
that get inducted into these things, and you need to
have a facility like this to kind of record people's
contributions to the dive industry that you may not be
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aware of, and when you go to the facility and
read about it and see what they did, you're kind
of awestruck and realize, like, gosh, I wish I would
have known this person a little bit more in the past,
I guess. And then bringing it up to the future,
you know, more we learned about what our diving pioneers
have done just make us better divers currently and in
the future.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Do you agree, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I decided to name check my fellow Brits in my
talk because I thought it was important to highlight what
they had done and what they'd contributed to diving, right
because the names that not everybody will know will be
aware of.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Like I said, that's a very important thing. There's so
many pioneers that have made diving better for us today
that you may not know their name, but when you
read their story, it's pretty it's just all inspiring. Really,
it's a little humbling too, now that you're part of
that group. I would imagine was that a pretty heavy
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lift when you did your little acceptance speech or where
you're kind of like, ah, you know what, I should
have been here ten years ago, which I don't think
that's probably your vibe. What do you think.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I'm still shocked when you look at the calibate. So
I'm going to name a couple of Brits for you.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Okay, well, i'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Hold on, We're going to give the Brits their prop
no doubt. But let's take a quick break. Come back
with Roz from the UK Slash inductee into the International
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I am Greg the Dive Master. I got Roz from
the UK Roz Lund as her name, and she was
just inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame class
at twenty twenty five in the Cayman Islands last weekend.
And let me get this straight. Are you the first
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British diver that got inducted? Okay, but they're underrepresented in
your regard.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You think I'm the first British female diver.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Ah, there you go, all right, and it's been a
long time coming, but we've finally crossed that threshold and
now we got a female brit diver in the Hall
of Fame. Well deserved because you know Roz, she does
rebreather stuff. She's done so many different things you literally
need a museum to document it all so you can
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go read about what she's contributed to the industry, not
to mention that she's just an all around great person
to hang with at the dive events and that's how
we've gotten to nowhere over the years here on Scuba Radio.
So congrats once again for that and the other Brits
that you wanted to like Spotlight or you know kind
of break through the barrier for the Hall of Fame
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were who so.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Thanks Greg, So they are there are five rits so
as Henry Flues right, And in eighteen seventy eight he
invented the first practical self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He his design was clever.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
He basically soaked rope yonn in caustic potash and made a.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Scrubber from it. Okay, so it was a little rebreather.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And his bold innovation helped shape the concept of close
circuit rebreathers. But we used today and we use them
in all sorts of aspects of diving, don't we to
military rescue, cinematography, exploration, technical diving. So there was him,
and then there was John Scott Haldane, who was a
brilliant British scientist who's made diving safe for all of
us because in the early nineteen hundreds he studied how
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gases affect the human body and develop the first decompression tables,
you know, these guidelines that help us return to the
service to avoid decompression sickness.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Pretty important stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
So he's work laid for foundation for modern dive medicine
and physiology and it seemed really fitting that in particular
these two were in But these two were in here
in the Cayman Islands because of Nancy used to Brook
because in two thousand and four she set up the
world's first or rebreathe, a diving event in a space
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and it's where valuable diving physiology and research takes place.
So these three have collided and Nancy is quite rightly
recognized also by this Internecal Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And then the other two.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I'm kind of it's a funny that there's this tenuous
link to me and them all of these is the
British storytellers Bernardy Eton and Kendall MacDonald. Now Bernard transformed
the British Shabbaqua Club's magazine Triton into Diving magazine and
organized countless dive shows and exhibitions on Kendall, a fellow journalist,
helped popularize diving through books that made underwater exploration exciting
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and accessible, and he also built an interest in marine conservation.
And then the fifth brit of course, is the networker
Leslie Line, and he was the first executive director of
the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. And he helped
shape the museum at on Cayman and he also co
founded the Historical Diving Society of America, and his deep
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knowledge and leadership have preserved the history of diving and
expanded its global reach.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And then you've got me.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Said, somebody made a mistake rise that's not accurate at all,
Just so we're clear. She's very modest. But yeah, I mean,
what do you think your contribution? You've done a lot
when it to dive media, especially you know, out of
that part of the world of the UK. But but
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you're big time into tech diving. You've worked with governments
as far as trying to maintain you know, the quality
of dive shops in the area and the UK and
stuff like that. And then you travel around the world
and meet slubs like me and kind of tell us
what's going on in your neck of the woods. So
I don't know, what do you think was the hook
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that got you into the Hall of Fame? Do you
have a idea yourself? Or no?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I figured you were going to say that. See it's
hard because you know, I know Roz and I know
she's modest, But you know, that's how you know, someone's real.
You hear what I'm saying. Roz. You know you've done
a ton for the industry and it's well well deserved
for you to be in the International Hall of Fame.
You know, everybody in the dive industry not just there
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or you are, but around. You know, you come to
the DIMA show, you know all the folks in the
US and the cane demens, you name it, Rise has
been there and done it, whether it's diving what the
Andrei d'oria and doing all this tech diving stuff rebating
what Rex, did you do the Britannic You did some
crazy diving like that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I've worked on a couple of Britannic expeditions, yes, I'm so.
Carl Spencer's one and then John Chatchan and Richie Cokohlers
won in the early two thousands and worked as a
production assistant on it as well.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That was fascinating.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
But tell you what was really cool this week was
that the Department of Tourism in Kayman, they really looked
after us. They put on this program where we went
out for schools and we talked to a lot of
school children about what we do in diving, possible careers.
Women Divers Hall of Fame highlighted their valuable scholarships.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Was really cool.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Jason Bellport, he highlighted the fact that he works in
Cayman Brack and he's, oh, his photographs are to die for,
they're really beautiful. And he talks about conservation out there
and what it's like to work in the sister Islands
and so on, and how local kids can get involved
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in diving because they've got a program I believe to
enable the school children to get trained, and it was all.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Really positive stuff.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
We had this little girl come out to ask us
if she could get a scholarship or how she could
get a scholarship because she's interested in doing dentistry, and
we highlighted the fact that you know, you could potentially
be a serving dentist. You could work in the forces
and become a dentist looking after serving personnel's teeth, or
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you could become a dentist and earn money and work
in conservation or something like that. So hopefully we might
see her in ten or twenty years time some quite
interesting diving.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, it was it was really really empowering.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Greg Well, I have no doubt when you can pay
it forward and say, look, I got into the International
Diving Hall of Fame. You could be me, you know,
five ten years from now. Take my dive plan and
go with it and maybe I can help you, you know,
trim up the times a little bit. It's it's about
paying it forward. That's what it's all about, right Roz. Yeah, absolutely,
and Roz from the UK rosline well deserved to be
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in the International Diving Hall of Fame. And even better
the fact that we get to call our friend of
Scuba radio. That's a bigger honor, at least from me.
She tolerates un Oh gosh, she's so modest. All right,
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This is the world's first radio show devoted to diving.
I am Greg the dive Master. That's pretty cool. Ro's
getting inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame there
in the Cayman Islands. You know, someday maybe they'll be
not me, but maybe one of the Scuba Radio Scuba
Squad members will be inducted. That won't happen, but I
do have them connected via the web on the show today.
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And that is made up currently of Gerry the Diver Guy,
Barry the Mugger of Vinny two Tanks, and we got
the aka Gypsy Brittany as well. Now, Brendy might have
a shot to do it. Actually, Cox Johnson's with us too.
He won't thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I'm glad you forgot me.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yes, and uh but but I yes, you see, that's
what happens when he's not in the studio with me.
I just forget about him. Uh, but Brittany might have
a Brittany might have a shot and get it into
the International Diving Hall of Fame someday. Uh do you
aspire to such accolades, Brittany? You think, okay, see, hey,
(24:40):
well there you go. And she's really.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I want to get into the Women's Hall of Fame, Women's.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, get go Okay, you want to get into the
Women's Diving Hall of Fame first, and then the internationals.
I think you just skip. I think you go straight
to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame, you know,
women Diving Hall of Fame. That's fine too, But why why,
uh why you even bother? Just go right to the mountain,
top of the mountain. Greg, Yes, sir c J. Be realistic.
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I am trying.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Greg.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
You're just show us because you can't get into the
Women's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
It's jelly, it's jelly, he calls it this.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Day nowadays, he had a good chance of getting into
the way.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Exactly depends on what I'm wearing. I guess that was perfect.
He's very's that's not accurate, all right. Getting back to
Brittany though, I mean, I think out of the entire crew,
she's the only one has like a chance in hell
to ever be inducted into the International Diving Hall of Fame.
So maybe someday we'll be talking about going to visit
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Brittany's you know exhibit like roz now has at the
International Diving Hall of Fame museum there and the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
On the criteria, Greg, I mean, do you have to
have a certain amount of dives?
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You gotta be awesome, you gotta be someone who contributed
to the dive industry and like first ballot hey Cox
Johnson says name and diving is well, see that's your
alter ego. Though, So I think they only accept.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Uh, not your silly characters in your silly show.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
That's uh, that'd be like you were on Scuba Radio.
But we're gonna let that slide, right.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Well, Yeah, I don't know, but I do think Brittany
has a shot though, because she's you know, she's breaking
down barriers. She's uh, you know, showing what an aspiring
young female can accomplish in this dive industry, just like Rod's.
I mean, you know, Rod's big time you know, tech diver,
rebreather and stuff like that. I mean, Brittany's doing her
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own thing in that regard, sharing the love of diving,
certifying new people, bringing them into the sport, running her
own little dive business. And you know down in South Florida,
she's done it all.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Why didn't you mention that? Give her a little.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Plug taking Vinny on trips.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, well, that the most challenging, Yeah, exactly. It's it's
kind of like a special needs type of like, uh,
you know, like a handicapped scuba diver association learning.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
She needs some therapy after she sees them in his shorts.
Speaker 13 (27:16):
Well, every time I go diving with Brittany, I found
out there's more and more. I just don't know about diving.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Or just educational being a human being.
Speaker 13 (27:26):
But diving is is the key.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well, that's the common bond.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
There's several lessons to laugh you need to learn, Bennie.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Yeah, here's the here's the first one with Minnie Vinnie
Boom giants straight off. So I'll watch him. I'm like,
I'm always the.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
First one in the water, some underwater looking up and
watching him.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Boom giants straight off the boat immediately, doesn't ever look
for another diver at all. Immediately boom either. Want number one,
straight down to the bottom. Number two. Here's here's the
battle of the boat. Everybody's like, Okay, we're anchored in, you.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Know, from the bow of the boat.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Just swim to the bow, go down the anchor line.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Forgot find finds the back of the boat.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Boom, God, you're in a hurry.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Well, usually at the back of I'm at the bow
of the boat, and of course I'm like timing him boom.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Eight minutes later it comes.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Back, And of course every time he comes back he'll be.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Like this, what the heck? What do I do?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yeah, usually this is covered in uh.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Yeah, never pick your head up. Like the second that
he hits the water, he's just gone.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Well, yeah, straight to the bottom. Not the plan unless
they tell you that in the dive briefing. Don't you
pay attention to the dive briefing.
Speaker 13 (28:35):
Vinnie Well, one of the first couple of drives. We
were supposed to go down, and I just kept doing it.
I forgot that I didn't listen.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You were supposed to stay at the surface and wait
and go down with.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Everybody fused, confused or confused, or.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You just didn't listen and forgot.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's that's exactly correct.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I well, you went down to like one hundred and
fifty three feet.
Speaker 13 (29:01):
Hey, there's nobody down, there's no where do they go?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Wait a minute, so where was this? This is in
the Caymans and Fiji, and you just jumped off the boat,
went right down to one fifteen, straight.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Down eighteen and I go, there's nobody there.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Where the hell are they?
Speaker 13 (29:16):
I go, I can't find him?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
So like I went back to the surface.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
He never in the dive profile. It's lucky that he
even knows how deep he was because he doesn't know
how to read his computers.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Okay, probably shows a graft of him going up and
down looking for people.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He doesn't know how to read.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
A Jeric tells me I can read that one.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Well, there's that, But so do you use Vinnie Brittany
as a dive instructor? Like, Okay, I want you to
observe Vinnie two tags and do exactly the opposite of him,
and you're going to be a great diver.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Sa It actually cautionary tale.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
We got to a certain point where I said, Vinnie,
one more antiic out of you, and I'm going to
smash your head.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Hellick violence.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
But that's how frustrated I was.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Wow, okay, unfixable, unteachable.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Or it just goes to show I'm getting better.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
But I.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Mean, I will say that the great thing about Brittany
is not only she is a great dive instructor, but
obviously she has an amount of patience that that I've
never seen. I never thought this was possible to be
so forgiving as uh as the aqua gypsy. And that's yep, yep,
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you definitely do. I mean because from the yeah, I've
heard of this.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Maybe crack once once in a while.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
But you know it's uh, I mean, that's a you know,
that's a great trait. I mean, that should get you
in the Hall of Fame just for that one.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
For not killing Vinnie.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Yes, yeah, but I don't think that's how they look
at potential candidates. So I don't even know. We guys,
we'll have to figure out. What are the you know,
rules of how people are you know, inducted. It's probably
a nomination thing from a big group of people on
the dive industry and that kind of thing. I don't know,
but it's a cool thing. And I've heard about the
(31:16):
museum there in the Cayman Islands. I have not been
there myself yet, but I've heard some pretty cool things
about it, and it's definitely on my list next time
I go to Grand Cayman, and I know Britney's been there,
Vin he's been there. We'll talk about that and some
other places that we want to go, you know, whether
it's to go, you know, add another dive to our
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better shot at getting into the International Diving Hall of
Fame than any of us, with the exception of Brittany.
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I mean Brittany. I think she might actually try. She
might bring our crew up just to Tad and might
be able to represent us in the future.
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Because she's way better than all of us? Honey, that's right,
Hell yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw some cheap imitation of
hot Honey this week. You know, Brittany's We've talked about
this before, and uh, I think it was some other
guy probably probably heard about your Hot Honey and tried
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to copy your success because you had a batchel.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Can you register that name hot Honey?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
No, it's actually food.
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Really maybe, but it was like Nate's Hot honey or something, and.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
I'm sure's hot honey.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, homestead, I think why not Brittany's hot Honey. That's
what you were doing.
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You need to attach a personality to hot honey.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Okay, that's one of many businesses.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
Yeah, it's the little bee with the fire on his butt.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Yeah, that's good logo.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yeah, fire on his butt. That's always good. Uh yeah,
So have you Okay? I know Brittany, Vinnie and myself
have been to the Caymans. What about you, Jerry? Have
you been to the Cayman Islands?
Speaker 7 (34:55):
No?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
No, and Barry is not either, but it hasn't been anywhere.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But I've been to the Cayman Islands a few times
and it's you know, it's been a while since I've been.
I know you guys been there recently in the last
couple of years. I went and did a nice little
adventure there, but I just haven't been back in a while.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
But it's an easy for asking.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
No, I knew you haven't if I well, yeah, I mean,
you know the CJ. He wants to go to a
lot of places, Greig, what.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
You're trend to say is if I haven't been there,
CJ hasn't been there.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
That's what you're about to say.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
No, no, no, I've been there. But I knew he
hadn't been there. Well, I haven't been there recently. Yeah,
it's probably been ten years, i'd say. But I used
to go to the Caymans quite often. Actually, there's a
few times, you know, there's a time there when i'd
go there, you know, once every six months a year
or so. Because I went to game in Brack did
(35:53):
not cruise ship. No, I went over there, did Cayman
Brack did uh, you know Bloody Baywall in that part.
And then I've been to Cayman, you know. Grant came
in was one of the first destinations I went as
a certified diver. I actually when I went to Grand
came and that was the first time I kind of
had a marine interaction with a kind of like a
(36:14):
friendly critter and it was a well, I don't know,
it was a Nassau grouper that was very used to divers,
and they took us to the site and said, hey,
we got a resident grouper here that loves to hang
with the divers. And he'll it's he's probably going to
swim right up to you and hang and that kind
(36:35):
of thing. I'm like, really, And sure enough we went
down and this grouper comes up, gets right in your
face and I reached my hand out, and I'm like,
he wants me to tickle him or something, and and
so I reached my hand under and and kind of
tick under, the tickled his belly. I tickled his belly
and he just kind of turned. He turned on his
(36:57):
side like, oh ah, that's it. That's the spot. That's
a spot.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Creepy.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
It was like fish, how do I know.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
What the anatomy of the fish?
Speaker 5 (37:08):
It was? It was the bottom of the fish, a belly.
It was the belly of him.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
It was there's more than a belly down there.
Speaker 13 (37:18):
I think you were touching something else.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Did you know where did you jiggle fish?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
There was no it was it was a soft caress
and there was no no diddling. God, so, uh, the
grouper maybe he's a group of grooker, but but the
grouper liked it, and I could tell it was a
really cool interaction and I'd never witnessed something like that.
And after that, well, that was the interaction that I
(37:48):
had years ago that made me, uh, never attempt to
or or never try to eat grouper again. I love group.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I think Greg that you would be a good in
for those jobs at uh you know with.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
The whales, the whales, what do you mean?
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah, you know the currency of the whales.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
And a couple of weeks ago the squad, Yes, c J.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Do you guys like to eat grouper? Yes?
Speaker 9 (38:20):
I don't recall ever having grouper?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
What what?
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I don't recall places down by you, I know, but
I with you, I just don't get out that.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
What kind of fish? What kind of fish do you eat? Then?
All right?
Speaker 12 (38:35):
I know I eat snapper, eatper, and know what's that
other one the dumb fish, the one that you can
fish hog fish?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Yeah, which is salmon?
Speaker 12 (38:48):
We eat a lot of sam okay Jerry's.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
And right, like I said, I'm gonna know because I
had that encounter with that grouper and it was hard
for me to kind of a you know, have that
encounter with this animal and then go I'm gonna go
eat them now.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I was like, probably, it's probably to be on the
safe side. Somebody are probably shot at groupern.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Na, not this one. This one was protected because it
was somebody I think.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
I think pigs are really sweet too, but I'm not
giving up bacon.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Well, yeah, but have you ever had a encounter with
a pig and kind of bonded with it?
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Did you ever tickle its bottom?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I've seen grouper though, and I will eat the hell
out of some group or I love it.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
That's uh, grouper.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
What about what about do you eat grouper? I do?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Yeah, but I have had a similar experience as Greg,
and I didn't tickle it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Of course you were appropriate. You're not supposed to touch
the sea life, Greg.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
Well, I didn't know I was. I was very much.
I was very much a beginner diving.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You know what, just admitting this on the air, you
just disqualified yourself from ever getting into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
The babies and is in his mind history of Dibby Museum.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
What do you mean? What are you trying to say?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
You're a loser in his dreams?
Speaker 8 (40:15):
He is, Greg got some awarded.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
What it's called takes to me?
Speaker 7 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, to.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Me about it? No, well, yeah, scuba radio got wave
medsonal boundaries.
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Do not stand behind greg that closely.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, you know, I know.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Over the year, when you get to know.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Drinks are flowing, it's late at night. I get it. Huh, Bondle,
you're sharing a hotel room.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Take them? Yeah, okay, you guys, do you like to
eat grouper?
Speaker 7 (40:59):
You know I'm West Coast.
Speaker 13 (41:00):
I've never had a chance to try.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
Oh my god, you guys may sick.
Speaker 9 (41:06):
In the West Coast.
Speaker 13 (41:07):
Do you know I hate grouper?
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Come because we ate it together in Florida.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Oh, you didn't know what it was.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
That's the difference. It's fish. He's had fish before, but
he doesn't know if he's at grouper.
Speaker 12 (41:20):
Sometimes you can go to a restaurant and you wonder
if the fish that they're selling is actually what.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Maybe if we connect a small motorcycle battery to Vinnie's brain,
maybe he.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
Can shock yeah, really into it. Just a small one
small voltage.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
It's a live not.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
A car battery, a motorcycle or a scooter.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I have about squirrel cage ever, just put small on them.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Okay, maybe you guys are no help whatsoever, so let's regroup.
We'll come back an hour two and talk more of
the Scuba Radio Scooter Squad and where we want to
go dive next on the World Spirts radio show devoted
to diving down, honesty and no.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
If you because you ris there, you want to be
their own.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
Radio scout.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Scuba Radio it's a production of overboard entertainment incorporating radio.
This seems the logical place for fish to congregate. Remember,
you could listen live or to archives of past editions
of Scuba Radio worldwide over the internet at scuba radio
dot com.
Speaker 7 (42:28):
Oh we're in international waters.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Indeed's whole Tell a friend and buddy up with your
radio every week for Scuba Radio, the world's first radio
show voted to diving. Well, it's all very nice yet,
but we should be going there. I miss me wife
in me oxygen. Yes, we all miss our loved ones
and gas. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
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of the hosts, callers, and guests.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Okay, you know what I just heard.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 10 (42:56):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
They're not necessarily those have any station or network. It's
management or advertisers on scuba diving does involve for risk
and should never be conducted without proper instruction and training.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
What's the worst thing that could happen?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
I could die?
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