The Bottom Dwellers Dive Shack

Learn about the wonderful wholesome career as a Navy Diver. Please do not listen. Only those that may be interested in being a Navy Diver, current and former military divers, this episode is for you and should be the only ones listening to this episode. Most know our show and how we run things, remember, “any comments or views expressed by the guests on this podcast are that of their own and in no...

Like Indiana Jones but underwater. “It belongs in a MUSEUM!” Learn about the exciting world of Dr. Melissa R. Price, in episode 2 of the Bottom Dwellers Dive Shack, “UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY”. Dr. Price, like the fictional Dr. Jones, ispassionate about preserving our history so that future generations of divers may enjoy it! Listen as she tells us her journey into the underwater world of the past! Ma...

Did we die? Get arrested? Get Deported? We catch you all up on our comings and goings. More on the going less on the coming. Great to be back! This season starts off great! Our quest for cancellation starts today! lol! Join us for a new action packed season! The only show that gives you an inside look into the industry and what it’s about!

Recorded while at the Professional Diver Training Center after school hours. We talk with current students, Regina, and visiting friends. A great add on episode to the previous dive school episode. Recorded in Texas.

Recorded in Alvarado, Texas at The Professional Diver Training Center. A dive school that centers on education and puts it’s students first! A refreshing truthful conversation about diversity training and what new grads can expect. Some hard truths some may not want to hear, but we also talk about why this is such a rewarding career! Listen as we speak with owner Don Moore and instructor Mark Alle...

Enjoy this episode with Myles, a recreational dive instructor from the Free Descent podcast. We have an educational conversation recorded on location at Ocean Enterprises dive shop located in San Diego, CA. A great conversation that helps others understand the importance of proper training and continued diving education. We also share experiences in our two different diving careers. Please like an...

We have a fun episode about dive movies and what goes into the production. We speak with Brett Murray about his first film experience as a consultant on set! By day Brett works for JFD and by night he is underwater Batman! Just kidding about the Batman part… or am I? Brett shares his experience working on the set of “Last Breath” and gives us an exclusive look into underwater Hollywood from the ey...

A remarkable exclusive interview and first hand account of the body recovery and salvage of the Potomac DC AA flight 5342 plane crash and the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. A true account of when regular commercial divers have to do the tough job of body recovery and salvage after tragic events in the water. This is a very important episode for divers to listen to before working a disaster in...

A great conversation with Brian Saxon about his company Rescue X and the importance of safety training for divers! They have an amazing product for extraction of a stricken diver from the water. This is in combination with the program that they have set up for how to care and keep the “window of viability” for life open. An episode on diver safety and a step in the right direction toward changing...

Saturation diving is cool? Great episode with Nick Gill, @gillygram18 on insta, he tells us some of the differences around the world in Sat diving. He also talks about how he started as a gulf diver. He attributes a lot of his success to what he learned in the gulf. A good episode that takes you into the life of a saturation diver working in places from the North Sea to India and everywhere else i...

Recorded live at SHOT show! A great episode on ROV’s and the multiple ways the robits are taking our jobs! Just kidding, we talk about how ROV’s help make our jobs safer and help us avoid taking unnecessary risks with human lives. I mean let’s face it, the T-1000 is superior in every way. It’s a shame John Connor is not a diver, then we may have a chance to stop the Videoray Robit Army! Listen as...

Amazing episode recorded live at SHOT show 2025 in Las Vegas. Big thanks to SHOT show for allowing us to record in their meeting rooms and for BROCO in helping us get out there! Talking with Micheal from Spyderco was indeed an honor and we learned so much. Listen as he talks about the beginnings of Spyderco, NEW reveals for 2025, what Magnacut is and why we’re excited about it! An episode that we...

Recorded live while on the floor in New Orleans Underwater Intervention commercial diving trade show. We had some good conversations with Bobby Delise and other friends on the floor of the show. This episode was cohosted by Ducky of Dive Shack Confidential. Make sure to like and follow both our shows!

A great conversation with two legends in the diving business. They have done so much for divers! Recorded live at Underwater Interventions 2024. Please subscribe like and share!

Recorded live at underwater intervention New Orleans 2024. Our first diver panel sponsored and hosted by Bottom Dwellers Media. We had a great time talking with seasoned dive supervisors including hall of famer John Roat of Mako Marine. We were also joined by Jeffrey Gazerack from Moffatt and Nichol, Troy Gessner of Integrated Underwater Services, Trevor Heintz supervisor for Orion Marine and owne...

Part two. We have Ol’ Pete back on to clear a couple things up and tell us all about his side gig as a part time cut man. The second half of the audio was not recorded due to internet problems.

The only IMCA dive medicine instructor in the US, that we know of, comes on and talks about teaching at DIT in Seattle. From killing bad guys to teaching how to keep someone alive on a dive job. This episode takes some fun twists and turns! Listen in and enjoy this first part of a two part set.

We talk about the latest happenings at CDT dive school and the past couple weeks events. Johnny comes out as his alter ego “el Gato Diablo”, and LB did some nerdy scuba show seminar. All this and more! Recorded while on the road in Mississippi.

This special joint episode with @diveshackconfidential discusses the current drama unfolding at Commercial Diving Technologies out of Hudson, FL. We also touch on the drama with small diver businesses vs the ghost Goliath of derpsea locker and their army of bots. Tune into this special explosive joint episode! Please follow both shows for the latest updates to date news in the commercial diving bu...

One minute you're swimming along scuba diving, and the next minute you're getting your arm torn off. All he was doing was hunting for fossils minding his own business. No one ever get attacked by gators they said. They're more afraid of you. Only the gators that are fed by people are a problem...Bs! Listen in as Will recounts the tale of his harrowing escape from the clutches of this prehistoric m...

pressure makes diamonds. We catch up with Trevor and talk diving and wetsuits.

The return of “EL Gato”! Johnny is back and alive in the dive shack. Episode has thrills and plenty of spills as we slosh our way through the last couple weeks. We give an update on the water tower diver death and have a quick phone call on air with a special guest. We also talk about how I died in the south and am now living in an alternate timeline.

We had another diver death. Carlos Medina passed away during the course of his work cleaning out a water storage tank. We go over what we know and give an update on where we are at in the investigation. For the second half of the show, we have Bobby Chacon on to talk about the similarities of the I-35 bridge collapse and the Key bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland. We talk about what divers can...

A commercial diver has died during the course of work on 3/12/24. He was working in the Gulf of Mexico during jetting operations. Listen in for up to date information and details surrounding this tragic accident.

On a February day in 1969, off the shore of northern California, a US Navy crane carefully lowered 300 tons of metal into the Pacific Ocean. The massive tubular structure was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, complete with science labs and living quarters for an elite group of divers who hoped to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the oc...