In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we get an overview of the Risk Management for Diving Professionals online course.

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.

Again, a huge thank you to all of you who have purchased my Risk Management for Dive Professionals online course! And I’m so encouraged by how many of you purchased bulk course codes for your dive center staff and leadership students. So cool. And I also love how you all are saying how great the course is. Thank you so much for that!

If you haven’t gotten it yet go to scubaguruacademy.com, or if you want to purchase bulk courses for your staff or your divemasters in training, just email me through the ScubaGuru.com website and I’ll send you details on bulk pricing.

Also, this is episode 150! Which means I have put out an episode each Wednesday for 150 weeks. That is pretty awesome. But, I’m gonna switch it up a little. As you know I have another podcast called the League of Extraordinary Divers: Salty Stories From the Diving Legends Themselves. And it has been a long time since I have posted an episode for that. Well between writing my online course and the weekly Dive Locker podcast, League of Extraordinary Divers has taken a back seat. Well, I intend to change that. Now, I will be putting League into a more regular rotation and this podcast will be in more of a random rotation, in other words not every week.

So yeah, when I say for patrons $4 a month is a dollar an episode, well it might not add up that way in future months. Hopefully that doesn’t dissuade you from being a patron at whatever level. The content will still be solid, just not as frequent with new episodes. So that is changing for this podcast. And by the way Jeff Bozanic is up next on the League of Extraordinary Divers, you are going to love that episode.

Okay last week we had part one of all about AAUS the American Academy of Underwater Sciences. Today is part two of my interview with Derek Smith Past President of AAUS. And in this episode he talks about AAUS getting a little more mainstream. Especially transitioning from a standards producing agency to a certification agency. Wow. And how citizen science diving can tie into AAUS in some ways. This is awesome stuff.

Items In This Episode

• Scientific Diver
• Getting underwater as a Citizen Scientist
• Ties with recreational diving

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we look at how dive professionals can engage with the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.

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.

First, a huge thank you to all of you who have purchased my Risk Management for Dive Professionals online course and have raved about it. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That just warms my heart! This was a project six months in the making, and sometimes you question yourself. Will this be good, will people want it? Well you have spoken and made me very happy by validating the true value of this course. So thank you!

If you haven’t gotten it yet go to scubaguruacademy.com, or if you want to purchase more than one course for lets say your staff or your divemasters in training, just email me through the ScubaGuru.com website and I’ll send you details on bulk pricing. So again thank you!

So, AAUS maybe you’ve heard of them maybe you haven’t. Well the American Academy of Underwater Sciences has been under the radar of recreational diving, but has existed with a strong presence wherever underwater research has taken place. AAUS exists within colleges, universities, aquaria, not for profits, municipal agencies, you name it, if underwater research takes place, the AAUS is present.

Well, I wanted to have a discussion about how dive professionals and dive centers can interact or come alongside AAUS in some way, and I reached out to Derek Smith recent Past Present of AAUS for a conversation on the issue. Derek, has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and two and a half decades of scientific diving experience. And he happened to be at the helm of AAUS for some of its most significant changes in AAUS’s history.

Well, we got into so much great stuff that I’ve broken up our interview into two episodes. I mean there is so much here, and I think whether you’re a dive center owner, manager or you’re an independent instructor you are going to have all these “oh really” moments, like I did in talking with Derek. Seriously good stuff here because AAUS is getting a little more mainstream. You’ll love these two episodes.

Items In This Episode

• History of Scientific Diving
• What is AAUS?
• How does AAUS work?
• TDI/SDI/ITI Certifications
• Standards Setting Agency Turns Into Certification Agency

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If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

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