The BiG Scuba Podcast

Gemma and Ian chat to Professor Bob Stone.  Bob Stone brings over 30 years of award-winning experience in human factors and simulation experience in a range of application domains, from defence to healthcare and from subsea environments to space.  The University of Birmingham's Human Interface Technologies (HIT) Team have been involved in maritime and marine projects that Bob tells us about. Profe...

Professor Bob Stone brings over 30 years of award-winning experience in human factors and simulation experience in a range of application domains, from defence to healthcare and from subsea environments to space.  His most recent research, developing innovative Mixed Reality solutions for the training of defence paramedics in simulated mission contexts and platforms, is particularly relevant to fu...

Gemma and Ian chat to John Vickers and Emma Farrell.  John is the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Abyss and believes passionately about connecting our marine evolutionary heritage and future space exploration.  Emma Farrell is one of Go Freediving Limited and a freediving consultant for Blue Abyss.   https://blueabyss.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/BlueAbyssPool https://twitter.com/BlueAbyssDiving h...

Out on Monday!  Gemma and Ian chat to John Vickers and Emma Farrell.  John is the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Abyss and believes passionately about connecting our marine evolutionary heritage and future space exploration.  Emma Farrell is one of the world's leading freediving instructors, author of the book 'One Breath, a Reflection on Freediving' and owner of Go Freediving Limited and a freed...

Grace Marquez is a visual artist and creative consultant living Canada. She works primarily in acrylic paint on canvas or wood boards and her subjects include the diverse and rich marine life and environments found underwater. Her work is 100% informed and inspired by her love and her passion as an avid cave, technical diver and active scuba instructor. She enjoys sharing the wonder of the underwa...

Grace Marquez is a visual artist and creative consultant living Canada. She works primarily in acrylic paint on canvas or wood boards and her subjects include the diverse and rich marine life and environments found underwater. Her work is 100% informed and inspired by her love and her passion as an avid cave, technical diver and active scuba instructor. She enjoys sharing the wonder of the underwa...

Gemma and Ian chat to Gabriel Pineda.  He is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Shearwater Research.   Shearwater Research quickly became a major supplier of trimix computers and electronic control systems for rebreathers. After enjoying wide acceptance in technical diving circles, Shearwater gained popularity amongst recreational divers.  We hear about how Gabriel got into diving and started...

Gemma and Ian chat to Rob Spray.  Rob Spray and his partner Dawn Watson are coordinators of the Marine Conservation Society's Seasearch project in East Anglia Seasearch is a project for scuba divers and snorkellers who want to learn more and want to help protect the marine environment around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. All the courses are listed here; http://www.seasearch.org.uk/   Have a l...

Gemma and Ian chat to Ian Travis.  Ian is based in North Carolina and passionate about ocean diving in the area.  Its called the Graveyard of the Atlantic and offers great wreck diving for all levels of diver.   https://www.facebook.com/ian.travis.18 https://www.facebook.com/InstigatorFishingDiving https://www.instigatorfad.com/   ISSN Number 2752-6127   Contact Gemma and Ian with your messages, i...

The BiG Scuba duo, Gemma and Ian catch up on some news items and whats coming up on The BiG Scuba Podcast.

The BiG Scuba duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Kat Gerasimova.  Kat lives in Norwich and has recently become a PADI instructor.  She has been diving for a few years and is passionate about UK shore diving and in particular off the North Norfolk coast.  She now is running a course via a local dive centre, Christal Seas Scuba about shore diving.  We hear about her survey work with SeaSearch East which is...

The BiG Scuba duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Richard Garriott about his exploration to the extremities of our planet.  He has journeyed to both poles, orbited the planet, explored jungles, peered into volcanoes and hunted meteorites and more recently visited the depths of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.  He visited Challenger Deep, the lowest known point in the world's oceans, in a titanium-s...

It's a year since Gemma and Ian spoke with Cristina Zenato and produced Episodes 9, 12 and 21.  We also spoke to Kevin Lorenzen on Episode 13.  The year of 2020 was challenging for everyone but we hear that for both Cristina and Kewin it was a positive year with changes made to bring them both into 2021 with fresh ideas.  We hear how the sharks are and what amazing progress has been made with the...

Its a year since Gemma and Ian spoke with Cristina Zenato and Kewin Lorenzen in the Bahamas so we had a catch up via zoom on the progress they have made through 2020.    Full version is available soon.

Ian and Gemma chat about what they have been up to including news from DAN (Divers Alert Network) ..Rosemary Lunn joins the podcast to answer some listener questions and also brings us some news.  We talk about Bracenet and Ghost Diving and the passing of Eric Grove. A new member of the team is Rosemary Lunn and answers some scuba diving questions.   https://rosemarylunn.wordpress.com/about/ https...

Ian and Gemma chat about what they have been up to including a refresher dive in the pool and then calling a dive based on the Any Any Any Any Any Any rule that Cristina Zenato stated on social media last November.  They discus some news items and talk about current promotions from DarkTyde and Hapi Bottles.   There are YouTube videos showing our unboxing of T-shirts, Hapi Bottles and a Fourth Ele...

Ian and Gemma chat among themselves and are also are joined by Rosemary Lunn who answers some scuba diving questions and brings us some interesting news items.   A new member of the team is Rosemary Lunn and answers some scuba diving questions.   https://rosemarylunn.wordpress.com/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-e-lunn-roz-23792121/?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.facebook.com/tumc.co...

Ian and Gemma chat Emily Turton.  She is a dive boat skipper in Scapa. She holds an MCA Masters ticket for vessels

The latest episode of The BiG Scuba Podcast will be surfacing soon.  We chat to Emily Turton.  She is a dive boat skipper in Scapa. She holds an MCA Masters ticket for vessels

Ian and Gemma chat among themselves and are also are joined by Rosemary Lunn who answers some scuba diving questions.   We talk about dive fitness and entering the Crossfit 2021 open games…  https://games.crossfit.com/ and we are members of our local Crossfit Box   https://www.crossfitgreatyarmouth.com/   A new member of the team is Rosemary Lunn and answers some scuba diving questions. tumc.co.uk...

Ian and Gemma chat to Ken and Kimber Kiefer, a husband-and-wife team. Ken Kiefer is an award-winning underwater photographer based out of Houston, TX.  His goal is to create stunning imagery that builds love and wonder for the underwater world.  He does a majority of his work with large predators; sharks, crocodiles, and rays, but also likes to show the beautiful interactions of humans with these...

Ian and Gemma chat to Francesca Trotman.  Francesca Trotman is the managing director and founder of Love The Oceans. With a Masters in Marine Biology she has always had a passion for marine life. An avid diver since the age of 13, Francesca's main passion has always been sharks, although she is interested in all aspects of marine life. Results orientated, Francesca constantly encourages people to...

The latest episode of The BiG Scuba Podcast will be surfacing soon.  We chat to Ken and Kimber Keifer, a husband and wife team. Ken Kiefer is an award-winning underwater photographer based out of Houston, TX.  His goal is to create stunning imagery that builds love and wonder for the underwater world.  He does a majority of his work with large predators; sharks, crocodiles, and rays, but also like...

Ian and Gemma chat among themselves today with no featured guests!  We chat about Entale podcast platform    www.entale.co    it's a platform that allows listeners to discover more from their podcasts by allowing them to engage with extra relevant content either whilst listening or at a later date.   Entale have launched a new collections feature in the app which allows listeners to save links, ep...

Ian and Gemma chat to Francesca Trotman.  Francesca Trotman is the managing director and founder of Love The Oceans. With a Masters in Marine Biology she has always had a passion for marine life. An avid diver since the age of 13, Francesca's main passion has always been sharks, although she is interested in all aspects of marine life. Results orientated, Francesca constantly encourages people to...