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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.
## Historical Documentaries:
## Books & Periodicals
## Recalls
**Voluntary Recall of The Mares XR Inflator**
**Shearwater Research is voluntarily issuing a recall for yellow wireless transmitters**
**Huish Outdoors Recalls Buoyancy Control Device – Zeagle Sport**
**Sunnto Dive Computer Settlement**
**Scuba Divers Knew of "Pedophile Island"**
**Restoration of 19th Century Firearms found off the coast of Newfoundland**
**Archeologists dive back into Franklin mystery**
**First manned trip in 14 years to Titanic remains made by Triton Submarines of Sebastian**
**Historic 17th-century Dutch shipwreck discovered near South African beach**
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**3 World Records**
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**Finisterre works to invent first fully recyclable wet suit**
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**Amazing archaeological discovery of 6th century BC anchor pole in Aegean Sea points to colossal ship**
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