Stephan Whelan – Founder of DeeperBlue.com
In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with Stephan Whelan, founder of DeeperBlue.com, diving industry maverick, and all around great guy.
As an eight year old child while on holiday in Canary Islands, Stephan tried scuba in a hotel pool. That set his passion. He went on to take BSAC training in high school and became an Assistant Instructor at the young age of 16 years old. As a freshman at university he joined the campus scuba club and by his Sophmore year he was leading it.
While studying Business Computing at De Montfort University England, Stephan set up DeeperBlue.net in 1996. He was writing stories in the early days of blogging. Then he published others content and quickly became the “Worlds largest community dedicated to freediving, scuba diving, spearfishing and dive travel.” One of biggest diving lifestyle websites in the world, DeeperBlue.com publishes 3 to 6 items daily. They have over a quarter million visitors per month and over 200 contributors to the site. And leading it all is Stephan “Papa Smurf” Whelan.
Items in this Podcast
- An eight year old in a hotel pool
- How DeeperBlue originated
- What happens when a strong current meets split-fins
- Hear his bucket-list of dive destinations
- The mean, awful, terrible triggerfish
- How freediving is opening up underwater exploration to teens and twenty-somethings
- Tips for divers
Resources
- DeeperBlue.com
- De Montfort University
- Funky Buddha Brewery
- The Blue Wild Show
- Bob Croft Episode #1
- Umberto Pelizzari
Sponsor
Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Fleet
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