Fitness in Diving

ON this episode of Fitness In Diving we have a conversation with Dive Operations Specialist Andrea Van Epps. The Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas is the largest swimming pool in the United States, and it is here that the National Atmospheric Space Administration (NASA) trains our astronauts. The Dive Operations Specialist supports the astronauts while training underwater. Our conversation wi...

Please join our conversation with Nick Bird MD,MMM,FAAFP,FUHM. Dr Bird is a Dive Medicine Physician, Past Chief Medical Officer/ Chief Executive Officer at Divers Alert Network, Past President of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, and Currently the Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medicine Department at the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle Washington. Dr Bird is a member of the Dive...

Please join us for Season Two of the Fitness in Diving Podcast. Episode One of Season Two is a conversation on The Aging Diver. We feature a conversation with Award Winning Author, Dive Safety Expert and Diving Educator Dan Orr. Dan has been a Dive professional for over 50 years. He has been involved with many facets of Dive Safety, Dive Technology, Dive Training and Dive Marketing. Dan Orr has se...

This Podcast episode features a conversation with Frauke Tillmans PHD.  Dr Tillamns is the Director of Research at Divers Alert Network.  She has a degree in Human Biology and a PHd specializing in oxidative stress which is involved in acute diving injuries and may affect long term health of divers.  Through her research career, she  has participated in research in collaborativ...

This podcast features a conversation with Third Generation Ocean Explorer and Ocean Conservationist Fabien Cousteau.  Fabien is an Aquanaut, Filmaker and Documentarian.  In his youth he spent time aboard his grandfathers research vessel The Calypso.  Here he learned about the importance of hard work and team effort to accomplish the many challenges required when exploring the vastne...

This episode features Dr Sandra Wainwright.  She is a prominent Pulmonary, Critical Care and Hyperbaric Physician.  She has cared for the diving community offering Medical Evaluation of Divers with Pulmonary Conditions. She has also treated numerous injured divers requiring Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.  Common conditions including Asthma, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia will be discussed. C...

The fourth Episode of Fitness in Diving features Dr Douglas Ebersole a Cardiologist, Divers Alert Network Consultant, Technical Diver, and Rebreather Instructor.  Dr Ebersole will have an engaging conversation on a variety of common areas of concern relating to ones Cardiac Fitness and how ones cardiac fitness can have a significant role in maintaining ones Fitness in Diving. The information...

Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor a physician board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Toxicology and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. She is Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medicine program at  Med Star Health in Washington DC.  Dr Kelly Johnson-Arbor  will share with us here experience treating injured divers in a hyperbaric chamber. We will include discussion on how decompression sickness can affect th...

Join Dr. Micheal Rothchild a pediatric otolaryngologist, past president of the Sea Gypsies currently the Dive Chair, Rebreather Diver, Author, and promoter of local diving in the Northeast, in a conversation on Diving and common Ear, Nose, Throat, and Sinus issues diver will experience. As ear, nose and sinus complaints are by far the most common medical condition divers will experience, this conv...

On our first podcast episode, we will feature Richie Kohler, filmmaker, author, and shipwreck explorer. This year Richie Kohler completed a return Explorers Club Flag Expedition visit to the HMHS Britannic. Richie Kohler will share his story of overcoming medical adversity and the challenge to return to diving after a significant medical issue.

Here's a taste of what's to come this season on Fitness in Diving!  Conversations with Diving experts on all aspects of Fitness in Diving will be informative and entertaining. You will hear first hand from Divers, Diving Leadership and Diving Medicine Experts. We will explore the six aspects in Fitness to Diving including: Physical Skill, Knowledge, Nutrition, Psychological Fitness and Medical Fit...