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LXD 030 : Sarah Richard – Founder of Girls That Scuba

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Sarah Richard, diving professional and founder of Girls That Scuba

Sarah Richard is the founder of the incredibly popular Girls That Scuba brand – the worlds largest female dive community. She spends her time traveling the world meeting Girls that Scuba members, hosting group trips, attending events and learning more about the ocean and the people of it. Sarah spent her time as a divemaster on a livaboard in Truk Lagoon doing multiple technical dives per day.  And that is when the concept came for Girls That Scuba, but ironically the reason why is not so pleasant as you will hear – sexism.

That sexism brought about a movement.  It’s hard to believe that is still going on today.  This should have died out decades ago in our activity – some of the best divers in the world are female.  I think back to Dottie Frazier in League of Extraordinary Divers episode #4, Dottie was the first female scuba instructor ever!  You can hear all that she dealt with back in the 50’s and 60’s.  And she pioneered the way for many female dive professionals after her.  On a brighter note Sarah took that negative and turned it into a positive and fun movement.  One of unity.  The Girls that Scuba brand isn’t like some kind of women against the world movement.  It is all about positivity, encouragement, fun, and diving.  Check out Sarah and Girls That Scuba at girlsthatscuba.com and all the social media sites that go with it. 

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025 Girl Power!

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you will hear about the increasing popularity of the Girls that Scuba brand.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Well everyone I just returned from England where I was a speaker at the Go Diving Show. This was truly the best consumer dive show I have been to. The show was packed and they had a great lineup of speakers, GUE had this 3d experience, a cave experience, rock climbing wall and demo pool that was packed.

The best thing was the passion. They have such a passion for diving over there. Both the divers and the dive pros. It’s a hearty diving over there. Often cold water with not the best visibility.

I personally had a blast! I got to attend my first rugby game, having the pleasure of going to see the Coventry Wasps take on the London Saracens with Stephen Wheelan founder of DeeperBlue.com and Paul Strike co-founder of Fourth Element. What was cool was that Paul had played professional rugby for the London Saracens. So I got a proper education in the sport, after which I am now a huge fan of rugby.

I drank tons of Guinness – by the way if you’re a Guinness fan did you know that it tastes better the closer it is to the source. So it tastes better in England than the US, and many in England say it tastes better in Ireland.

And I also met some wonderful new diving industry colleagues. One of which is our guest on this episode, Sarah Richard is the founder of Girls that Scuba. Now I interviewed Sarah for the League of Extraordinary Divers, my other podcast. However, there were things she said that were setting off bells for The Dive Locker podcast, things all dive professionals should hear.

Most notably are two things; one is positive and one slightly negative. The negative is that some sexist attitudes towards women in diving still exist and that was a key reason why Girls that Scuba was born. But that led to the good point, Girls that Scuba is one of the coolest entrepreneurial start up stories in the dive industry that I have heard. Wait till you hear the organic success of Sarah’s brand.

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024 Checking In With Aggressor Adventures and Professional Scuba Inspectors

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you will hear about new happenings in Aggressor Adventures and Professional Scuba Inspectors.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Today we have two great guests. First up is Wayne Brown CEO of Aggressor Adventures. Wayne purchased Aggressor Fleet in 2007 and co-founder Wayne Hasson became president. A few episodes ago we did a tribute to Wayne Hasson as he recently died of cancer. But Wayne Brown has done remarkable things with Aggressor- and its not only liveaboards they have Nile river cruises and African safaris, thus the name Aggressor Adventures.

Our second guest is Mark Gresham President and CEO of Professional Scuba Inspectors, Inc./Professional Cylinder Inspectors, Inc. they are the diving industry’s foremost authority on scuba cylinder safety. If you also listen to my other podcast the League of Extraordinary Divers, I had the founder of PSI Bill High on in episode 25 that was fascinating to hear how PSI started by Bill hearing about a cylinder explosion on a dive boat – not at a dive shop at fill station but on a dive boat! And Mark has taken this company to new heights as they are teaching dive professionals around the world about how to fill, use and inspected scuba cylinders safely.

I wanted to do check-ins with both of these companies because if you are in the dive industry you need to know these two companies. First, you should do a liveaboard – go for fun or lead group travel on one. It is one of the best diving experiences out there as you can do up to 4-5 scuba dives in a day! If you’re a pro you need to be experienced with livaboards.

And scuba diving is based around this major piece of equipment , the scuba cylinder. This is actually a hazardous material. It has to be treated with safety and respect. Since your job deals with cylinders everyday, you need to be at minimum a fill station operator and for some you should be a cylinder inspector.

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That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com and there you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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023 The Art of Teaching Mask Clearing

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you will learn innovative strategies that make teaching mask clearing easier and more effective for your students.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

In today’s episode you will learn innovative strategies that make teaching mask clearing easier and more effective for your students.

  • Avoid selling masks with purge valves
  • Tell the reasons to clear water out of a mask but put more emphasis on the positive reasons
  • Acclimation exercise
  • Dry exhalation drill
  • Two instructor visuals at the surface
  • Breaking the seal
  • The “Look Down” priority
  • One handed mask clearing
  • Side mask clearing
  • Strategies for flawless demonstration quality
  • Upcoming dive show: Go Diving Show

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That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com and there you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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LXD 029 : Hal Watts – Record Deep Diver & Technical Diving Pioneer

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Hal Watts League of Extraordinary Divers

Hal Watts, world record deep diver and legendary technical instructor

Hal Watts (aka Mr. Scuba) is the founder of The Professional Scuba Association International (PSAI). His first experience with SCUBA was in 1955.  He pioneered many areas of extreme diving and technical diving.  In fact he set a World Record Deep Air Dive to 119 meters (390′), and Hal holds the World Record Deep Air Cave Dive at 127 m (415 feet). He has trained six other world record deep air divers, including his daughter Scarlett Watts, who in 1999 established a new Woman’s World Record Deep Air Dive to 129 m (425 feet).

In 1996 Hal won the prestigious Diver of The Year Award for Education, presented by Beneath the Sea organization of NY. Hal was a Co-Founder of NACD And has been an Extended Range Instructor Trainer for PSA, IANTD, NASE, NAUI, PDIC and TDI. He is qualified to teach Deep Air, Nitrox, Extended Range Nitrox, Trimix, Rebreathers, Full Face Mask, Dry suit, Cave, Cavern, Diver Propulsion Vehicles, and Wreck Penetration. Hal is one of the diving industry’s foremost authorities on deep diving and he has written over 15 manual in dive education.

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Thank you for joining me again. Do you want to give a shout out to our guest on this podcast? Leave a note in the comments section below!

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Welcome Dive Professionals

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See what we mean by Go Beyond the Standard and enjoy the rewards of being truly great at what you do!

Sincerely,

Tec Clark

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