To Dive For

Graduate student Meg Van Horn, joins TDF this week for an episode full of spawning and baby corals! Along with telling us about her research at UNC Wilmington, Meg provides great insights on navigating the coral world specifically when facing financial barriers and a global pandemic. You won't want to miss her inspiring journey of perseverance and passion for marine conservation. From innovative l...

This week join Haley and Sydney as they jump into more physical oceanography with modeller and PhD student Douchan Hanuise from UC Louvain in Belgium. Douchan uses computers to help us understand how seagrass is making its way around the world! This important work lays the groundwork for understanding this important ecosystem and we hope you'll be so excited to hear more! This episode is sponsored...

This week we have special guest Toni Lohroff, the Director of Education for the non-profit International SeaKeepers Society. Tune in to hear where her journey has taken her, all of the things she has accomplished, and how she works to share her love of the ocean with the future generations. Toni works hard to educate students of all ages as well as educators themselves. This episode is sponsored b...

This week we release a member-exclusive episode for you all to see what you're missing on our Patreon. Every other week, we record an episode like this one discussing a piece of equipment, a tool, or a practice we use in diving and how we like to use it. This can be anything from the different kinds of BCDs to the various ways to launch a DSMB on a dive. We love the chance to discuss important top...

Today's stories include shark-nados, dusk diving, pregnant stingrays, dolphins, frogfish, real life rescues, and freshwater reefs! Need we say more? This episode is To Dive For! For a chance to enter the Waterlust gift card giveaway head to our Instagram or Facebook, or leave a comment below with the answer to this week's trivia question. Find merch on our website at ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://slbartco.com/page...

This week catch up with Haley and Sydney as they chat with Grace Keast, a citizen scientist and sea slug aficionado. Grace has worked with a number of different conservation organizations over the years and over time has fallen in love with the sea slug, an unsuspecting but magnificent creature! Her admiration of these animals has led her to establish the Western Australia branch of the Sea Slug C...

This week we dive into the world of cave diving with Jill Heinerth, a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Through her diving, artistry, and collaborations with scientists, Jill is documenting unexplored caves and the organisms that call them home. Stay tuned as we discuss being the first Explorer-in-Residence of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, bo...

Join Haley and Sydney this week as they chat with Jess Esposito, a bird expert living in Long Island, New York. Jess fell in love with the ocean through her love of birds and their behaviors. Soon she found herself in a variety of different positions aiming to protect shorebirds and the habitats they call home, advocating for both human and animal needs along the way. She has mastered the art of s...

Dive into the waters of New Zealand as we uncover the mysteries of black corals! Miriam, a Ph. D. student at the Victoria University of Wellington, studies the ecology, resilience, and spatial distribution of the black coral Antipathella fiordensis in the Fiordland Marine Area, New Zealand. We'll learn all about what black corals are, how these corals survive in New Zealand's unique enviro...

This fish tales episode, tune in to hear stories of grandeur, tales from Haley and Sydney's recent travels, times of overcoming fear, as well as some Whale Tales! Our Ptreon memebrs received two bonus stories at the end of the episode about Haley's time in The Bahamas and another wild animal mating display! Check out the photos under this post for pictures from our story tellers Charles Kl...

It's time to dive deep with us this week into the world of coral genetics! Why are scientists interested in the genetics of corals, how do they study them, and what does this even mean?! Jill Ashey, a PhD Candidate at the University of Rhode Island and an AAUS Scientific Diver, will be our guide during this exciting and educational episode! If you want to hear more from Jill like her favorite...

On this week's episode, learn about all that it took to become a gear guru! Lawrence went from learning to swim to traveling the world to sharing the important stories of conservation through photos and video. Hear about his time in Australia, Hawaii, Indonesia, and now Southeast Florida where he spends his time helping professional dive photographers optimize their camera rigs. Keep an eye on...

Kim Malkoski does it all from being the Diving Safety Officer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to the first female President of the Boston Sea Rovers! During your next surface interval, join us in learning how Kim found her passion for dive safety, the challenges she has faced in the field, and what her favorite parts of her jobs are. If you want to hear more from Kim about diving of...

This week, we are finally BACK from our extended surface interval! Tune in to hear about how Haley and Sydney have been and catch up on all things podcast! This week's special guest is Jennifer Idol, the first woman to dive in all 50 states! Come along as we ask her all about what it took to dive in so many unique places, what her favorite kind of underwater photography is, her dream animal sighti...

We are so grateful to have a fan base who is reaching out to us about the show! We have had a perfect storm of coral spawning and technical difficulties that have made it nearly impossible to get any episodes out to you all! We are planning to release an episode next week and will hopefully be back to our regularly scheduled programming very soon!

This week's episode takes us to Saba, a small island in the Caribbean that makes up for what it lacks in land mass with abundant biodiversity both above and below the water. This beach-less island turns out to be an unexpected crown-jewel of the Caribbean! This is what Lynn Costenaro fell in love with when she moved to the island to work at and eventually become the owner of Sea Saba. Since 2003,...

What is aquaculture? Can aquaculture be sustainable? Why do we need aquaculture? Find out the answers to these questions and more this week as we interview Ethan, a marine scientist and educator within the Florida Department of Agriculture! Ethan also shares with us his amazing experience of living on a sailboat for the summer, sailing around the Caribbean, diving, and teaching kids about marine l...

This week, help us Shell-ebrate our first year as a podcast! This episode we have a few fish tales to share as well as a new special segment where we answer listener questions! This recap of who we are and why we do what we love reveals some changes since our first episodes, but also confirms what we have known to be true all along: The Ocean really is To Dive For! Don't forget to follow us on...

We FINALLY got the chance to chat with a dive doctor! Lucia takes us through her journey of becoming not only a dive doctor, but an infectious disease doctor, intensive care doctor, and advocate for drowning prevention. During her career, Lucia has worked with the DAN hotline, the navy, commercial divers on oil rigs, and recreational divers! For more information on drowning prevention, visit SOBRA...

Have you ever dreamt of solving crimes UNDER WATER!? This week, learn all about how Kelsey helps to do just that! She talks about the necessary training (and the extra training she's glad she had), her fears that ended up not coming true, and some of her most epic dive stories. New this week, head to patreon for the full length episode! Editing and music: Haley Davis Cover art: SLB Art Co

We FINALLY dive into the world of commercial diving in this week's episode! Lenny is a surface supply diver and electrician from Canada who uses her specialized training to do a variety of underwater jobs including aquaculture maintenance, vessel, barge & dock inspections, construction, pressure washing, surveying, and marine salvage & recovery. The options are endless in this field so...

Tune in this week for a very special episode as Haley shares about her experience getting decompression sickness last year and how it shaped the way she dives now! Haley shares all about her symptoms, her treatment, and how it affected her mentally in an effort to normalize (or at the very least take away the taboo from) the topic of dive injury. Hear how her dive insurance helped to keep her safe...

Join us this week as we dive deep with Tanya Streeter, a world champion freediver and environmentalist! Tanya takes us beyond her amazing records and into the behind the scenes of her freediving journey, talking about the years of hard work, challenges, and mental fortitude. We also dive into the peace, clarity, and self-empowerment that freediving has given her and how she gives back to the ocean...

On this week's episode, hear from the people who wrote the book on Fish ID... Literally! Ned and Anna Deloach are known around the world for their work in Fish, Invertebrate, and Coral identification, as well as their extensive field guides in these topics. They helped to found REEF the Reef Environmental Education Foundation where they have helped to collect thousands of datapoints regarding...

Micro-fauna, nudibranchs, muck diving, underwater photography, and more! Make sure to tune in to hear weekend warrior and underwater photographer, Gabriel Jensen, share his knowledge of the tiny marine critters that call roadside locations in Florida "home". After an hour, you'll leave with a new appreciation for the tiny, incredible life in your own backyard! Find Gabe's work on...