Scuba Obsessed

I was not sure I was going to release this one. I have never been a fan of solo episodes. Maybe it is not liking the sound of my own voice recorded.

Here it is with most everything left in. We have quite a backlog of episodes that needs to get edited. We hope to get caugt back up very soon.

Thank you for your support,

Darrin

Undercurrent [https://www.undercurrent.org/](http://)

**Liveaboard Safety**

After the Conception tragedy, we are led to think about the safety of liveaboards on which we all have traveled worldwide. Have you ever been concerned about a boat’s layout? About the crews’ competence in time of a problem; about your sleeping quarters; the battery chargers; the night watch? We’d like to hear your views and concerns and whether you have taken any special precautions.

**Smoking Aboard?**

Firefighters tell us most house fires start in the kitchen or are attributed to careless use of cigarettes. Recent events have made us more aware of this potential hazard. Smoking is commonly banned in places of work and public areas for health reasons, but fire affects everyone, especially on a boat. It would be relatively easy to ban smoking on American liveaboards, but less so in foreign countries where smoking is de rigueur. Do you think smoking should be banned aboard?

**Atomic Regulator Hose Recall**

Huish Outdoors is recalling some Atomic regulator hoses with a low-pressure hose swivel next to the second stage. Affected hoses have a hose crimp that bears a date stamp D0717. If you have any doubts, call repair guru Robert Stark at 310/947-8523, or you can e-mail him a picture of the crimp; or take your regulator to an Atomic dealer. Atomic Aquatics has sent repair kits to some affected customers, but the free repair should still be done by a trained technician. Contact service at (888) 270-8595 ext. 4, or at [email protected] for instructions. The defective hoses should be returned to Huish Outdoor.

**Oldies Battle it Out**

Bill Lambert celebrated his 99th birthday in September with short dive in the chilly waters of Pearl Lake with friends, divers and media on-hand for the special occasion. The Rockford, IL resident wants to become the world's oldest scuba diver. Meanwhile, 96-year-old British WWII veteran, Ray Woolly, claims to have broken his own world record as the oldest scuba diver, by going diving at the popular Zenobia wreck off Cyprus’ southern coast. He went to 138-feet with a total dive time of 48 minutes. His goal: to keep diving until he reaches 100.

**Check That Your Tank Valve is Fully Open**

Critical reminder: Before diving, take a couple of breaths from your regulator while checking the pressure-gauge needle stays steady. Sucking strongly on most regulators first with the tank valve shut assures you there are no leaks. (This doesn’t work if you have an Atomic regulator both as primary and alternate air source because of its unique design.)

**Chinese tourist sorry for scuba tank ‘pranks’ on diving trip in Philippines (Thanks Darek)**

**Salvaging, cleanup of Golden Ray shipwreck will require detailed planning**

**Canadian boy diving with GoPro helps police solve 1992 cold case (Thanks Darek!)**

**Divers take on ‘black water’ in mission to solve strangers’ 44-year-old cold case**

**Volunteer scuba divers embark on underwater cleanup expedition of the St. Lawrence**

**Surprise rescue of Jamaica coral reefs shows nature can heal**

**Anchor from St. Paul’s shipwreck identified, researchers claim**

**Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' Shipwreck Possibly Discovered Off Rhode Island**

**Treasure & Shipwreck Recovery, Inc. Obtains State-of-the-Art Magnetometer (Geometrics Model G882AR/4) to Aid in Treasure Hunting Efforts**

**Lawsuit in 13-year-old boy’s death targets scuba diving company and a national diver’s organization**

**St. Joseph neighbors worried by shrinking shoreline**

**Beer cans, drone, and nearly 250 lbs of trash pulled from Buntzen Lake in weekend cleanup**

**Pensacola Bay Bridge Replacement**

**Spanish drought reveals submerged megalithic tomb**

**Eerie pics reveals secrets of last US warship sunk by Nazi U-boat in WW2**

**Marine Enthusiast, 63, Discovers 140-year-old Shipwreck in Murky Depths of Lake Michigan**

**118 years after ship sank in Lake Superior gale, searchers locate wreck 825 feet beneath the surface**

**California boat fire: Entire crew was asleep when blaze started, NTSB says

**KZN Scuba Diver Recovering After Shooting Himself In Face With Spear Gun**

**Doe Run Co. files suit against Bonne Terre Mine**

**Michigan waters affected by combined sewer overflows**

**A U.S. Navy boat from Norfolk was found floating off Ireland’s coast. **

**High Waters Bringing Pieces Of Great Lakes Shipwrecks Ashore**

**Shipwreck discovery in the Coral Sea**

**USS Osprey ship's bell to be handed to US after mysterious return**

**Underwater Archaeology Branch at Fort Fisher**

**Could human bones found in 1963 be related to Lasalle’s Griffon shipwreck?**

**PowerRay submarine drone is the lazy man’s scuba alternative **

**.8M Kansas mansion comes with a surprising aquatic perk**

This is a special episode we recorded in December 2018 with Ric Mixter. Our intent was to publish that month unfortunately we had recording problems. Ric and Mack sound great, but we had to cut a lot of Darrin out. We are not sure that was bad. We ended up with a great intervew and the shortest bad scuba joke of all time. Guess the punchline...

Ric Mixter

Website - [http://www.ricmixter.com/](http://)

Youtube - [https://www.youtube.com/user/AirworthyProductions](http://)

Facebook - [https://www.facebook.com/AirworthyProductions](http://)

Amazon - [https://www.amazon.com/Ric-Mixter/e/B003CSVZDS%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share](http://)

Bio from Lakefury - [http://www.lakefury.com/ric-bio](http://)

With dozens of appearances in two countries and three states last year, Ric Mixter is certainly one of the busiest maritime speakers, rumored to be the most requested historian on the Great Lakes. Visiting museums, libraries, schools and his live music concert “STORM”, thousands of audience members get a new appreciation for our unique inland-sea history through his spellbinding lectures.

Millions of television viewers recognize Ric Mixter as a shipwreck researcher, diving over 100 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. He has produced over 30 programs for PBS and the Outdoor Channel, and appeared as a shipwreck expert on the History and Discovery Channels. He leads the pack when it comes to sharing our unique underwater resources with the general public, and thousands of dive show patrons and countless school kids know him as the energetic story teller who uses video like no other presenter can. His stories appear in books, magazines and in radio and TV news programs. Mixter’s YouTube videos have over a million views, covering shipwrecks in four of the Great Lakes and adventures in several foreign lands.

Ric served as SCUBA cameraman on underwater expeditions to the Great Lakes largest shipwrecks, the Edmund Fitzgerald and Carl D. Bradley. He has interviewed dozens of shipwreck survivors over the past 15 years, including two from the 1913 Storm, two from the 1940 Armistice Day Storm and survivors from the largest shipwrecks in lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie. Today he runs his own production company, Airworthy Productions. He’s been Emmy nominated and has taken several awards including the Addy, Aurora, Michigan Association of Broadcasters Best Use of Medium, AP, UPI and was the 2007 Vescio award winner for a video on mental health advocacy. With over 20 years of stories on historical preservation, Ric was awarded the 2009 Award for Historic Interpretation by the Association for Great Lakes Maritime Historians. In 2011 he was elected to their board of directors. Ric is also on the board of directors for the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, elected to serve as their president starting in January of 2016. Ric has hosted the largest dive show in Ontario and also MC’d the midwest’s largest show in Chicago. He is a frequent speaker at Ghost Ships in Milwaukee and Michigan’s largest show “Great Lakes Shipwrecks”.

Ric is also a pilot- flying not only single engine planes, but also has flight time in several military jets. These include the US Air Force’s Thunderbird F-16 Falcon, and over 100 hours of camera work in the B-52 Stratofortress. He’s flown in the Goodyear Blimp and countless biplanes and aerobatic aircraft and has also jumped several times from over 12,000 feet as a skydiver. Ric also adept to filming in helicopters, from flying over the jungles of Honduras with the Army, to being lowered in a rescue basket into Lake Huron by the Coast Guard.

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