Scuttlebutt: Official Podcast of the National Museum of the Surface Navy

Our 2025 Freedom of the Seas Award recipient, CDR Victor Vescovo, USNR (Ret.) is epic and remarkable. His list of accomplishments reads like an adventure novel: he's climbed Everest, flown in space, been to the bottoms of all five oceans, found the deepest shipwrecks ever located, and more.

What's his WHY? What drives him to push boundaries and take the risks he does? Find out as we return with Season 4 of Scuttlebutt.

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Meet Navy flyers Kevin Borough and Jack Tribolet. Neither dreamed of being a pilot - one, in fact, actively avoided it, but both ended up driving rescue helos for the Navy. 

Buckle up for some hair-raising tales of scary weather in this episode of Scuttlebutt!

Find the first half of this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7m3fmyKM4

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We just talked to a rescue swimmer (https://youtu.be/2d_uQT1fHEU?si=R1iF0wvPyeBHfOMm). We figured we ought to talk to his taxi drivers, too.

Meet Navy flyers Kevin Borough and Jack Tribolet. Neither dreamed of being a pilot - one, in fact, actively avoided it, but both ended up driving rescue helos for the Navy. 

How did their journeys take them to the MH-60 Sierra? Find out in this episode of Scuttlebutt!

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Brian Dickinson has been a part of an elite unit in the US Navy: he's a retired Navy aviation rescue swimmer. That not adventurous enough for you? He's also one of two people to have stood on the roof of the world completely by himself.

Join us for his incredible story. For more, check out his website and his new book Calm In The Chaos comes out TODAY - Tuesday, Oct 29. You can find it at all the usual booksellers.

https://www.briandickinson.net/

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Brian Dickinson has had been a part of an elite unit in the US Navy: he's a retired Navy aviation rescue swimmer. That not adventurous enough for you? He's also one of two people to have stood on the roof of the world completely by himself.

Join us for his incredible story. For more, check out his website and his new book Calm In The Chaos comes out next Tuesday, Oct 29.

https://www.briandickinson.net/

https://youtu.be/tHrEdZqV4FI?si=qWoXEB0LUDTbL0eP

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Battleship IOWA Museum's first chairman of the board and former Iowa state senator Jeff Lamberti joins the gang to reminisce about the adventure of saving the ship from the mothball fleet.

Prepare for some laughs as we share previously untold stories from Suisun Bay and Richmond, and the days when the budget was so tight, we had to ration generator hours.

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Former Iowa state senator and the first chairman of Battleship IOWA's Board, Jeff Lamberti was there for the pins-and-needles moments back in 2011 when saving the ship was still a huge question mark.

He jumped into a Scuttlebutt recording earlier this year to reminisce about those crazy times and how it's really a miracle we're here!

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Here's Part 2 of our conversation with Travis Davis, Vice President of Ship Operations for Battleship TEXAS.

In this podcast he shares behind the scenes info on the recent drydocking and restoration of the world's oldest battleship.

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We've been trying to get this guy on the podcast for a while. He's Travis Davis, Vice President of Ship Operations for Battleship TEXAS and he's had an interesting few years.

In this podcast he shares behind the scenes info on the recent drydocking and restoration of the world's oldest battleship.

Part 2 coming soon.

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We're excited to introduce the latest restored and working space aboard Battleship IOWA. It's the new home for our podcast: IOWA's 1980s TV studio. Welcome to NEPM Studio 61A!

In this episode we sit down with IOWA's Innovation Engineering & Technology (IE&T) Team manager Gary Lopes for a chat about what it was like to restore the ship's 1980s television studio to its full glory (working Betamax camera included)... only to see our podcast team move in and get goofy.

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You can also

⭐ Contribute to the National Museum of the Surface Navy https://www.surfacenavymuseum.org/donate


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