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It’s soooo hot! Water is warm and brings its own dangers. We talk about how to stay safe and protect yourself from brain eating amoebas and necrotizing fasciitis. Listen as we have a hilarious conversation about keeping cool.

Blake Riddle finally officially comes on the show to talk about the job everybody knows about but can’t talk about! Many know what we are doing there but we still can’t talk about it. It was an amazing trip!! While it was a great interview with Blake on what to expect when moving to Hawaii for work. Many companies are hiring and this is a great episode to listen to if you are thinking about moving to Hawaii for work. While I was out there working during Fourth of July, I was able to see a lot of friends and former crew mates, it seems like everyone is here! Even Tommy from @15fathoms was here on vacation!! So listen in for a great conversation and welcome to “Hush Island”.

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 way, shape, or form, do they reflect the policy or position of, The Bottom Dwellers Dive Shack. Recorded live at a Marriott in Downtown Long Beach, CA.

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! Many thanks to the Florida Bureau of Archeological Research with the Florida Department of State for making this interview happen! A bit about Dr. Price: She was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2018She earned a BA in Anthropology from James Madison University in 2012 and her MA in Maritime Studies from East Carolina University in 2015 (Thesis title: Intellectual Treasure Hunting: Measuring Effects of Treasure Salvors on Spanish Colonial Shipwreck Sites) She received her Ph.D. in 2023 from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her PhD research examined marine transgression of a submerged precontact site in the Gulf of Mexico (title: Tracing Marine Transgression at Manasota Key Offshore (8SO7030) using Crassostrea virginica)She currently serves as an Underwater Archaeologist and Diving Safety Officer at the Florida Bureau of Archaeological ResearchNot as cool as Harrison Ford but pretty darn close! Stay tuned for more episodes of underwater diving adventure! We cover everything from commercial diving and underwater aliens to scuba diving with alligators! We are also an educational show covering dive equipment, history of diving, diving accidents, and diving safety with top divers and instructors in the business. We are your number one source for commercial diving news and information!

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 Allen as we talk dive school!

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 and follow Free Descent podcast if you would like to know more about the recreational diving world.

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 eyes of a commercial diver. Listen in as Brett gives us his “Tell All”!

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 which loss of life occurs. It was very courageous of Glenn O’Connell to have a tough conversation with us in the hopes of helping other divers who find themselves in similar situations. It also highlights the often thankless tasks that commercial divers sometimes perform that are relatively unknown to the public. Please share this episode with everyone that you know. On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle)[b] and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collided mid-air over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.. The collision occurred at 8:47 p.m. at an altitude of about 300 feet (100 m) and about one-half mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001.

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 the safety culture of commercial and recreational divers. An important episode for both industries.

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 in between!

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 we talk with Rob from Videoray Underwater Systems.

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 have been wanting to do for a while! So glad it came together!

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!