Philippe Cousteau Interview. Philippe Cousteau is the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

PD45: Part 1. Interview with CAVE DIVING PIONEER Bill "HOGARTH" Main, the originator of the HOGARTHIAN or the HOG. We talk with Bill after a dive at Devils System. Bill Main talks about the past and future of cave diving. Part 2. We talk with Kate Thompson about Great Lakes shipwreck diving in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

PD44: NOAA's National Undersea Research Program and the Aquarius Habitat. Interview NURP Deputy Director/ Commander Karen Kohanwich. We discuss the history and future of undersea habitats. We also discuss NOAA's work with NASA on the NEEMO Project.

Audio Interview with Brian Kakuk. Brian is a former US Navy Diver. Today Brian is one of the world foremost Cave diving expolores andtech diving instructors.

B-BLOCK: NOAA Outreach with John Stevenson. C-BLOCK: CCR design with Peter Ready D-BLOCK: POD DIVER RADIO NEWS E-BLOCK: Diving the USS Oriskany

B-BLOCK: One-year anniversary episode. C-BLOCK: Aquatic Cave conservation with Ralph D of NSS-CDS. D-BLOCK: Listing of podcast subjects from year 1. E-BLOCK: OMS discusses their new HID light. THE PHANTOM. F-BLOCK: Don Tipton talks about photography and the PADI diving society.

Karl Shreeves of PADI DSAT discusses physical fitness and technical diving.

PD40: Wreck Diving in Palau. We interview Sam Scott of Sam’s Tours. Joe Cocozza would like to thank everyone who sent there condolences regarding the death of his Mommy Mary Kurland. It has been a difficult time but it is nice to know how many friends are out there. Thank you so much for your prayers. DOWNLOAD AUDIO HERE

In this extended episode of Pod Diver Radio, we cover a lot of water. We kick off with a chat about training, cave plans, and knowing when to call a dive before an injury calls you. From there, we jump to New York City, where podcasting and media trends at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts meet grassroots scuba storytelling. The main feature is a deep-dive interview with Dan Orr, President & CEO of Divers Alert Network (DAN). Dan walks through how DAN began as a single emergency hotline, how today's medical and safety services work for divers worldwide, and why member support and research projects like Project Dive Exploration matter for every dive you make. We also hear about upcoming workshops on topics like asthma, diabetes, and remote decompression illness—and how those findings shape safer recreational and technical diving. Then we head underwater in unexpected places: Wrecks in the desert – Side-scan sonar hunter Greg Mikolajczyk talks about locating aircraft and boat wrecks in Lake Mead, including a remarkably preserved B-29 bomber in deep freshwater. NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab – Jack Stanton from Ocean Management Systems (OMS) explains how NASA's support divers train astronauts underwater, why OMS gear was selected for the NBL, and what it takes to run a six-million-gallon "space pool" with aerospace-level standards for gas, cleanliness, and equipment. Sprinkled throughout are shout-outs to local Northeast shops, tech gas fills, and ways you can support the show and the broader dive community. Whether you're a new diver, wreck junkie, or just fascinated by the overlap between space and sea, this episode has something to splash into.

On this extended tech-diving edition of Pod Diver Radio, we start in the woods of upstate New York at OMS headquarters and end 420 feet down on a British battleship standing vertically on the seafloor. First, Joe visits OMS HQ and sits down with Technical Director Jack Stanton to talk about how OMS was born in the cold, deep wrecks of the Northeast, grew up alongside the early "outlaw" days of tech diving, and now outfits everyone from wreck and cave divers to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab astronauts. Jack walks us through OMS harnesses, manifolds, lights and how tech gear has evolved from "weird stuff on the dive boat" to mainstream tools for advanced divers. Then we head to Mexico's Yucatán with cave diver, videographer, and former Marine Corps aviator Len Bucko. Len connects cockpit discipline to cave protocols, shares stories of early cenote exploration, Mayan history, haloclines, jungle hammocks, and what it really feels like to lay first line in virgin cave. Back at OMS, Jack returns to detail the new Larry Green cave wing—a narrow, long, non-bungeed BC designed specifically for cave divers—plus updated Slipstream fins, spring straps, and why different environments demand different rigs for wrecks vs. caves. We wrap in High Springs, Florida, where Joe bumps into Christian Francis of Lebanon Divers and dives into the discovery of the long-lost HMS Victoria off Tripoli: a 19th-century British battleship that sank bow-first and now sits perfectly vertical in 150 meters of water. Christian shares the search, the first descents, and the incredible naval history behind Admiral Tryon's fatal maneuver. If you're into OMS gear, cave diving, Northeast wrecks, deep Mediterranean history, and serious tech diving storytelling, this episode is for you. DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO AUDIO FILE HERE