Radio Marinara

Bron and Dr Beach explore ‘Ocean Mind’, the imminent arrival of the Giant Spider Crabs, effects of floods on marine ecosystems, and the impact of commonly used sunscreens to tropical corals. • Ocean Mind is a charity that provides therapeutic surf programs services for young people aged 8 - 18 years experiencing mental health challenges, social isolation and disabilities. We’ll speak with Founder...

Bron, Fam Cabin Boy and Jeff talk surprising celeb sailors, A Cleaner Coast, Sea Creatures podcast, and the history of medieval diving techniques according to James Bond ... • Cabin Boy brings us the latest on the plight of Russian Oligarchs, and enlightens us on some surprising celebrities who are sailors. • We’ll cross live to the Surf Coast to speak with Katie Griffin from A Cleaner Coast, for...

Bron, Dr Beach, Kade and Rex talk Caspian terns, 50 years of diving the Ships Graveyard, Spider Crabs, cleaning up the Surf Coast, and some brilliant citizen science work on the Great Barrier Reef.. • Rex Hunter talks about the history of diving the ‘Ships Graveyard’ off Port Phillip Heads. This coming November marks 50 years since it was first dived by the ‘Geelong Skindivers’. Rex discusses some...

Bron and Fam check out the Bellarine Catchment Network, Spider Crabs 2022 (will they or won’t they), approaches to managing coastal erosion, and community rapid response to outbreaks of the Northern Pacific Seastar... • We catch up with Matt Crawley from the Bellarine Catchment Network. BCN is a Not-for-profit network on the Bellarine Peninsula, made up of representatives from key catchment and co...

Happy May Day on Sunday. Bron, Anth and Dr Beach are in the good ship Marinara! Anth has been looking at the election platforms of the 4 main parties and looking for anything marine... yawn.. if he can stay awake, he will let you know what he found. Next Saturday 7 May, the Friends of Hobson’s Bay Wetlands are hosting an open day to celebrate the wonders of the Ramsar recognized wetlands, and an a...

Kade, Bron and Fam will talk with Dr Elodie Camprasse from Deakin Uni about Spider Crab Watch, a new citizen science project to help solve one of the most mysterious natural phenomena of the Bay. Have you got your new marine field guide to the Marine Fauna of Port Phillip Bay yet? Author Steven Kuiter joins us in the studio for a chat about this amazing book with well over a 1000 photos of marine...

Happy Easter People. Kade and Anth are on air this weekend. We will start with an update on the Bells Beach comp and a special surprise guest. Radio Surfarama! Then we Marinarians are going to take a break from popping Easter eggs in there mouth and turn the focus onto the eggs adrift in the sea. We will have an eggcellent time eggsploring the role eggs play in the marine eggcosystem. (groan...) A...

Bron and Kade get out the crystal ball and look to the past and to the future of marine and coastal management – perspectives from 60 years of recreational fishing, 20 years of Marine Protected Areas in Victoria, and the concept of 30% global protection by 2030... • Bob Kearney is a life-long recreational fisher, having spent countless hours fishing off NSW rocks and beaches since the 1960s. He is...

Bron, Dr Beach and Rex talk seabathing in the 1850s, friendly jellyfish and current problems with Arctic research… • Rex Hunter talks sea bathing in Port Melbourne during the gold rush era – once an exclusive affair, but then going through democratisation with the opening of the Railway baths in 1861. • If you’ve ever thought about a career in the marine environment, you’ll want to attend next wee...

Beloved comedians Lano and Woodley tell presenter Bron Burton about their Melbourne Comedy Fest re-imagining of 'Moby Dick'; the team catch up with Rob Lorenzon about Spike, his national champion surfing dog, because Rob and Spike have recently returned from the 2022 National Dog Surfing Championships in Noosa; presenter Fam provides an update on the latest bleaching event to hit the Great Barrier...

Bron and Kade talk Baykeeping with Neil Blake, Ocean Literacy with Dr Prue Francis, and the history of diving with Maynard...Jeff Maynard. • Baykeeper Neil Blake talks about the ‘City Nature Challenge’, a program that aims to see which city can submit the most observations of native fauna. Neil also takes a look at different models of citizen science, and possible improvements in current methods u...

It’s a long weekend in Victoria, which means it’s ocean festival season! Bron and Dr Beach check out the Ocean Film Festival, one of its short films ‘I am Ocean’ about Melbourne’s mermaid PT Hirschfield, a great partnership that unites snorkellers and anglers, and the Lorne Biennale sculpture festival: • Each year the Ocean Film Festival grows from strength to strength. It’s about to kick off, and...

Bron and Fam cover the announcement of the Endeavour discovery, developments in Ocean Literacy, and the science of sunfish: • Marinara’s maritime archaeology guru Rex Hunter discusses the recent announcement of the identification of 'The Endeavour' wreck in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island USA, and why the announcement has sparked some serious controversy. • We speak with Dr Prue Francis, Deakin Univ...

Bron and Dr Beach bring you an hour of all things wet and salty. • This Wednesday, the State Library of Queensland hosts a free in-person and online event called ‘The Women of the Great Barrier Reef: The Untold Stories of Environmental Conservation in Queensland’. We speak with presenter Professor Kerrie Foxwell-Norton (Griffith University) about the research behind this work, and the extraordinar...

Bron, Anth and Kade in the good ship RM. In November we celebrate 20 years of marine parks in Victoria. Meaning, 20 years ago there were no marine parks in the state! Which begs the question what was going on all that time ago? To hear about all the moving & shaking of this pre park era we speak to Chris Smyth a doyen in the field of marine conservation in Victoria. Since the late 1980s there...

Hey there Marinara friends - we’re back, and we’re excited for a big year ahead of all things wet and salty! Hope you’re having a good summer, and getting some sweet sea goodness. 2022 is set to be a big year for Marinara – 20 years since our Marine National Parks were made, so much to talk about… To kick off 2022, it’s big jellies, little coastal snails, beach clean-ups, standup paddleboarding an...

n a week where we saw a lot about COP26 Dr Beach and Anth thought they'd delve into what it all means for the oceans. What actually is a COP and why have there been 26 of them? And what does it mean for the ocean? Anth and Dr Beach will kick off by doing a COP 101 - all the questions you wanted to ask but were too afraid to as everyone seems to know what the stuff is about... If you have any speci...

As so often happens with Marinara, a theme has emerged for this week's show - defence - against WWII submarines, the rising influx of plastics on our coastlines, and introduced marine pest species. • Maritime Heritage expert Rex Hunter talks about WWII incidents in Bass Strait through the early 1940s, and the flight of a Japanese ‘glen float plane’ over Melbourne in 1942. • We’ll speak with Jordan...

Bron and Dr Beach steer the good ship Marinara – we’ll start and finish with plastics in the ocean, and in between navigate hyperallometry and, a new catalogue of Port Phillip Bay’s magnificent dolphins. • First up, Baykeeper Neil Blake reports on some great research work by his students looking at the relationship between annual snapper movements in Port Phillip Bay and the presence of microplast...

Bron and Kade wade in to the world of yacht racing, whales migrating, fish counting, Flinders Community campaigning, and Yarra monsters spooking... • Cabin Boy opens up his 1983 diary, and takes us back to the 1983 America’s Cup and how it changed the world • We’ll catch up with Dave Donnelly to get the latest on the migration of whales and their new babies along the Australian east coast as they...

Bron, Fam and Rex look at 1850s Hobson’s Bay, plastics in the oceans (yep it hasn’t gone away), and pay tribute to the late, great Bob Whiteway, OAM. • Maritime Heritage guru Rex Hunter takes a look at defence installations in Hobson’s Bay during the 1850s. • We speak with Ricki Hersburgh, Executive Director of Plastic Oceans Australasia about how education and science-based strategies are changin...

This week Bron, Kade and Captain Trash take you to Flinders Pier, Ningaloo Reef, and will try to not talk like pirates for a solid harrrrrgggh!*… • Jo Richards and Michael Sams join us from Parks Victoria for an update on the proposed works at Flinders Pier, including findings from a report commissioned to determine the impacts from the proposed works on the local marine environment including the...

Bron, Beach and Cabin Boy in the fishbowl

This week, Bron and Dr Beach take out their sorting brushes and see what’s what in the Marinara petri dish… • Our Cabin Boy Brett Ditchfield talks about three different mooring systems – jetties, piers and wharves. • A couple of weeks ago we were contacted by RRR subscriber Felix to let us know that his daughter Edie was deeply concerned about the plight of endangered sharks, and had come up with...