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The League of Extraordinary Divers Podcast

Imagine sitting down to a coffee or cocktail with your favorite diving personality and hearing their stories.  The League of Extraordinary Divers podcast brings legends in the diving industry to you.  Hosted by Tec Clark, this podcast features diving legends of the past and present sharing some of their best scuba diving stories.  You'll hear stories such as their original scuba training, scariest diving stories, funniest diving stories, favorite diving locations, as well as tips for divers.

LXD062 : Joe Dituri

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Joe Dituri – Hyperbaric Medicine Researcher & Exploration Legend

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary hyperbaric medicine researcher and diving explorer Joe Dituri.

Bio

Commander Joseph Dituri enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1985. He served continuously on active service upon various ships and shore stations where he was involved in every aspect of diving and special operations work from saturation diving and deep submergence to submersible design and clearance diving. Now that he is retired from 28 years of active service to the United States, he is the president of the International Board of Undersea Medicine. He also volunteers his time as the CEO of the Association for Marine Exploration. He is an invited speaker on motivational, sea and space related topics.

Joseph earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina as well as a masters degree in Astronautical Engineering from Naval Post Graduate School in California. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of South Florida.

Joseph is the author of numerous diver-training manuals, a co-author of the book “Tao of Survival Underwater”, a contributing author to the Navy Diving Manual, and has been published in several journals including those produced by the American Society of Naval Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. CDR Dituri was also a member of the prestigious special operations parachute demonstration team. He is a class “D” Licensed Sky Diver, a one atmosphere suit Pilot and a Level three certified Systems Engineer and Program Manager for the Department of Defense.

Commander Dituri’s personal awards include: three Navy Achievement Medals, a Joint Service Achievement Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, four Navy Commendation Medals, a Joint Service Commendation Medal and a Joint Meritorious Service Medal.

He is also a member of the American Bureau of Shipping Special Committee on Building and Classing Undersea Vehicles and Hyperbaric Systems and the National Offshore Advisor Committee for Commercial Diving Safety. Joseph enjoys writing books, skydiving and has a long-term goal of being a civilian astronaut.

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LXD061 : Jeff Bozanic

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Jeff Bozanic – Scientific Diving Legend

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary scientific diver and explorer Jeff Bozanic.

Today’s guest is one of the premiere scientific divers and explorers on the planet.

Bio

Jeffrey Bozanic is the president of Next Generation Services, where he provides consulting and training services in the diving market. Clients include rebreather manufacturers, training agencies and legal agencies. Bozanic has participated in or led more than 70 diving expeditions in the past 30 years, to places like Palau, the Canary Islands and Antarctica.

He was certified as a NAUI Instructor in 1978 and is active in teaching cave diving, rebreather, nitrox, decompression and trimix diving courses. He has published extensively on diving education topics, with a heavy emphasis on diving safety. Bozanic has edited and reviewed many diving textbooks and is the author of Mastering Rebreathers, as well as the senior Technical Editor of the NOAA Diving Manual. He has served on several boards of directors in the diving community, including as Chairman of the NSS-CDS, Vice Chairman of NAUI and Treasurer of the AAUS.

He currently serves on the TDI Technical Advisory Committee and on multiple diving control boards.In 2007, he was honored as the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year, and in 2015, he was the recipient of the AAUS Conrad Limbaugh Award for Scientific Diving Leadership. In 2018 Beneath the Sea selected him as the Diver of the Year Science.

Items In This Podcast

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Inspiration
  • High school scuba class
  • Scuba dredging for gold camping trip
  • Scouting helped with diving success
  • Underwater gold mining in the Bolivian jungle
  • Rebreathers in the industry
  • Mexican cave adventure with a speedo, machete and poison ivy
  • Antartica naked ice dive photo shoot
  • Favorite diving locations
  • Jeffery.Bozanic facebook
  • “Mastering Rebreathers” Best Publishing
  • Expeditions

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LXD060 : Nadia Aly

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Nadia Aly – Underwater Photographer and Expedition Legend

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary photographer and expedition leader Nadia Aly.

Today’s guest is the founder and creative talent behind diving’s largest social media brand – I’m sure you’ve heard of it – ScubaDiverLife

Bio

Nadia Aly is an award winning wildlife photographer, with a focus on underwater marine life. Her primary goal is to educate people globally, about the diverse populations of sea creatures that exist in our oceans. She captures their beauty and uniqueness with her camera and then publishes these photographs and videos. She does this in an effort to raise awareness and interest in supporting efforts to conserve our oceans and their inhabitants.

As she continues to master the art of underwater photography, she takes interested clients on numerous underwater expeditions every year, through her company Scuba Diver Life Expeditions. Her specialties are the sardine run out of South Africa and the humpback swims out of Tonga, where she takes guests to swim up close and personal with the whales.

Nadia is also the owner of scubadiverlife.com an online news portal for scuba diving and ocean conservation enthusiast.

She holds a masters degree in digital media from the center for digital media in Vancouver BC. This program is a result of joint collaboration between university of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr Institute and private industry sponsors.

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  • Discover Scuba at age 12
  • Masters in Fine Arts
  • How entering a video contest started her professional diving journey
  • Traveling 10 months of the year
  • Favorite diving destinations
  • Scuba Diver Life
  • NadiaAly.com

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LXD059 : Bret Gilliam

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Bret Gilliam – Diving Industry Legend

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary diving industry professional Bret Gilliam.

Todays guest has done just about everything in diving.

Bio

Bret Gilliam has been professionally involved in the diving industry since 1971, a career now spanning over 50 years. Since beginning diving in 1959, he has logged over 19,000 dives around the world. His background includes scientific expeditions, military/commercial projects, operating hyperbaric diving treatment facilities, liveaboard dive vessels and luxury yachts, retail dive store & Caribbean resort operation and ownership, as well as filming projects for movies, television series, and documentaries. He was founder and President of six multi-national diving companies including V. I. Divers Ltd., AMF Yacht Charters, Ocean Quest Cruise Line, TDI/SDI, UWATEC, DiveSafe Insurance, and four diving magazines. He is President of the consulting corporation, OCEAN TECH, since founding that company in 1971.

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LXD058 : Becky Kagan Schott

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Becky Kagan Schott – Underwater Director of Photography, Photographer and Technical Diving Instructor

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In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary underwater photographer and technical diving instructor Becky Kagan Schott.

Today we interview another young gun legend in the diving industry. And that is Underwater Director of Photography, Photographer and Technical Diving Instructor Becky Kagan Schott.

Bio

Becky is a 5-time Emmy award winning underwater cameraman and photographer who’s work appears on major networks including National Geographic, Discovery Channel and Red Bull. She specializes in capturing images in extreme underwater environments including caves, under ice and deep shipwrecks. Her projects have taken her all over the world from the Arctic to Antarctic and many exciting locations in between. She’s filmed new wrecks, discoveries to cave exploration and even diving cage-less with great white sharks.

She’s earned a reputation for being able to bring back quality imagery from harsh conditions. Her biggest passion is shooting haunting images of deep shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. She combines her artistic style with powerful stories of tragedy, mystery and survival to ignite the viewers imagination. She’s constantly pushing the limits of technology and trying new creative techniques to capture the beauty of the underwater world.

She’s a frequent contributor to several Dive Magazines and her photography has been used in books, museums, and advertising. Becky has been actively diving for 26 years and technical diving for 22 of them. She has been an Instructor for 2 decades and is currently an active TDI Mixed Gas CCR Instructor.

Becky leads expeditions all over the world to capture unique images that inspire others to explore our planet!

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  • Try Scuba at 12
  • Great Lakes at 13
  • Cavern Diver at 14
  • Instructor at 18
  • Florida Aquarium
  • Isle Royale National Park
  • Andy Torbet
  • Wheat Wreck
  • Diving glaciers
  • Abaco’s Crystal Caves
  • Liquid Productions
  • MEG Diver

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Welcome to ScubaGuru.com!  The ScubaGuru brand is dedicated to giving dive professionals tools and techniques to be GREAT LEADERS – leaders in the classroom, leaders underwater, and leaders in their diving businesses.  With unique leadership skill-sets, the dive professional can create:

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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!

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