The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast


Latest Episodes

25. What if we had a sustainable ocean economy?
August 28, 2025

In this episode I take a look at a blue paper published by the Ocean Panel on the impacts to the worldwide workforce if we take action and create a sustainable ocean economy versus not doing anything

24. Rewriting our National Climate Assessment!
August 14, 2025

The US Energy Secretary recently announced that they are reassessing, or essentially rewriting the 2023 congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment (NCA) report. - Apparently, the assessment

23. What’s up with Shark Week and What’s Going on at the EPA???
July 31, 2025

Shark Week 2025 featured a new show "Dancing with Sharks" - Now this show is billed as an underwater dance competition between experienced scuba divers and their shark partners. They performed moves l

22. The Future of Diving
July 17, 2025

The future of scuba diving is not with our current generation of scuba divers; the future of diving is with the next generation of scuba divers - specifically the Gen Z, Millennials and younger genera

21. Becoming a Dive Pirate
July 03, 2025

The Dive Pirates Foundation is an organization dedicated to enabling individuals with physical disabilities enjoy the underwater world through scuba diving. Their motto is "We no longer see disabiliti

20. Let’s talk about the “State of the Oceans”
June 19, 2025

The State of the Oceans report from Statisa and the German Ocean foundation gives us an overview of how they see the current state of the oceans around the world. - This report discusses how the ocean

19. A Return to Key Largo
June 05, 2025

Another of my favorite spots to get in some scuba diving is Key Largo. I finally returned after five years. The last time I made it to the Keys was 2019 before the pandemic. It was also an opportunity

18. Plastic Foam Needs To Go!
May 15, 2025

Oceana recently released a report - Plastic Foam Needs 'To Go' - Plastic foam is one type of polystyrene that is incredibly harmful to the environment and human health. Most US registered voters agree

17. What is happening at NOAA?
May 01, 2025

Like many federal - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is being drastically impacted by efforts to shrink government. And this effort not only seriously undermines the mission

16. The Assault on Our Oceans from Within
April 17, 2025

Our oceans are under assault. - From the US withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the number of executive orders issued by President Trump we are seeing an all out pummeling of initiatives designed to