Surface Time with Stephanie

Nico de Rouge, a French photographer and PADI Instructor living in Shanghai, had recently published his work on major publications like The Economist. He first caught the travel bug at the impressionable age of 19 and has since lived and travelled across North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. When we spoke, he was caught in the middle of the lockdown in Shanghai. Somehow he has managed to walk around the streets of Shanghai and documented the events happening during the lockdown in April 2022. His curiosity and willingness to take risks have taken him places for new experiences.

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In this follow up episode, Tony answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests:

1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip?

2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice?

3) What is your greatest fear?

4) What is your greatest extravagance?

5) What do you value most in friend?

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Tony Wu, an award-winning wildlife photographer with a long list of accolade, has shared with us what he got up to in Japan water while the rest of the world dealt with international travel restrictions. A remarkable gentleman who wears his heart on his sleeves and is motivated by his curiosity in pursuit of new discoveries like the courtship and the spawning of cardinal fish and the importance of Whale poop to our ecosystem. His captivating images have not only inspired many people, but also contributed significantly to the research scientists community.

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Hello, I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to my podcast “Surface Time” (aka “Confessions of a Diving Junkie”), where I chinwag with people who are like me scuba diver and chronic addict to being underwater.

I think it is a universal sentiment amongst scuba divers. “Scuba diving” is the best social icebreaker. Whether you’ve just met each other on a dive trip or at a “much-dreaded” work event. Once “scuba diving” comes into the dialogue, you instantly connect with each other and want to continue chatting. The conversation would easily evolve from scuba diving to many other things. Often you become friends for life.

During Surface Time, I am speaking with other diver-friends. Most of them don’t make a living out of diving. Instead, diving makes their living more meaningful. I want to find out from them what led them to diving, what keeps them going diving, what good has diving done for them in their personal life and in their workplace; and everything else other than diving.

• Like the importance of photographing whale poop [Tony Wu]
• Snippet of being locked down in Shanghai, 2 years into Covid-pandemic [Nico de Rouge]
• Why plastic pollution is a climate emergency? [Margaret Murphy]
• Insight to a software engineer’s creative process [Magnus Akerblom-Wiker]
• What you should know before getting a parrot as pet [Sharon Kwok]

These are stories of people doing amazing things and living life to the fullest. I hope that whether you are a diver or not, they will stimulate and inspire you one way or another.

Thank you. Enjoy the confessions.

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