Ocean Protect Podcast

Dr Annika Dean is a Senior Researcher at the Climate Council of Australia, and drops more bombs of truth than the number of equivalent atomic bombs being absorbed by our oceans every second (which, we discover, is a lot !!). If you're keen to know more about climate change and its impacts, and what we can do about, then this episode is a must listen !! This is a two-part episode, with the second p...

Liza Dicks is the National Marine Debris Campaign Coordinator for Sea Shepherd Australia, which aims to protect and conserve our marine environment, preventing and removing the unprecedented amount of marine debris entering our oceans and waterways. Liza is AMAZING - volunteering her time to this awesome campaign, and was gracious enough to talk trash with Jeremy and Brad. We discuss the problem,...

Veteran Pro-surfer, Adrian “Ace” Buchan has surfed all over the world – including Championship Tour wins in France and Tahiti, plastic plagued waters in Indonesia, and his beautiful home-town of Avoca Beach in New South Wales, Australia. With an obvious passion for the ocean, he is also a committed advocate for its protection, including his role as an ambassador for Take 3 ForThe Sea. Je...

Our guest for this episode is Jim Lenhart, who Jeremy calls the “Godfather” of stormwater. Jim is based in Portland, Oregon, USA and is the Chief Technology Officer for Stormwater for Contech Engineered Solutions. We talk about a range of topics, including the history of stormwater management in USA, the impacts of excessive sediment and phosphorus in lakes and waterways, the link betwee...

In this episode, Jeremy and Brad are joined by Darrell Blatchley, who is a Marine Biologist and Curator of the D’ Bone Collector Museum in Davao City in the Philippines.   Last Saturday morning, a starving whale has found in waters off the coast the Philippines. The whale died shortly after. Darrell and his team rushed to recover the whale to investigate the cause of death.&nbs...

“There will be more plastic in our oceans than fish by 2050”, but where is most of it coming from ? In our inaugural episode, hosts Jeremy Brown and Brad Dalrymple introduce the Ocean Protect podcast, themselves, and drop a few of incredible facts and figures about the health of our oceans along the way. Jeremy Brown is the Founder of Ocean Protect who stop pollution entering waterways by pro...