Episode  212                 Jo Moseley    Paddleboarder, Diver and Author

This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Jo Moseley. Jo Moseley, 60, is a bestselling award winning author of three books about paddleboarding.. At university in Scotland she also learned to dive, becoming her university club captain and qualifying as a BSAC Dive Leader in the late 80s. The west coast of Scotland was a favourite diving location.

Jo loves wild swimming, touring the UK in her van called, Summer and does a 2 minute beach clean every day. One of her goals is to learn to freedive!

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Links to books:   www.adventurebooks.com

Other Links discussed in the podcast: McConks Paddleboards : https://mcconks.com/  Use Code THEBIGSCUBA2025 for a discount

Diverstime and West Lake Diving Site :  Go dive at West Lake - Take a look

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This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian bring a roving report from their Sept 2025 trip to Seahouses and diving around the Farne Islands off the North East coast of the UK.

Our local dive centre  Christal Seas Scuba Norwich organised the trip using the dive boat services of  Sovereign Diving.   We mention our stop off on the way to Seahouses to see the On Freedom Wings  monument.  This is a full-sized, steel representation of an Avro Lancaster Bomber, elevated 15 meters high to create the illusion of flight, located on the border of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England

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Episode 210 – Our Adventures in Lundy and Under Swanage Pier

This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian, along with Scuba Honey, head to Ilfracombe to board the Barbara B with Lundy Diving for some unforgettable underwater adventures with the playful seals of Lundy Island. You can find out more at: https://www.lundydiving.co.uk/

From there, our journey continues to South Devon, where we dive Chesil Cove, catch up with Colin at DIR Direct (https://www.dirdirect.com/), and bump into our good friend Dave Mason enjoying the local waters. Along the way, we give shout-outs to Glen Barnes from the Seahorse Dive Club (https://seahorsediveclub.uk/), coastal hikers (and fellow divers!) Rhianna and Ed, and Liam from Divers Time (https://diverstime.com/) who shares tales of his own South Devon adventures.

A big thank you also goes to the Swanage Pier Trust for looking after us with parking and pier access: https://www.members-swanagepiertrust.com/

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian report live from their road trip to Seahouses, Northumberland and diving adventures around the Farne Islands with Serentiy Farne Island Boat Tours https://farneislandstours.co.uk/

They also visit https://diverstime.com/ and catch up with Scoobs at the Dive Shack and have a dive in West Lake to see the new attractions.

Gemma and Ian drove the Auto-Trail Excel 620g throughout the trip and give a review of the motorhome… safe to say they loved it!   https://www.auto-trail.co.uk/discover-the-award-winning-auto-trail-excel-range/

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Barry McGill.  Barry McGill is a deep wreck photographer and CCR instructor trainer with Indepth Technical. His main area of focus is exploration of deep-water shipwrecks around the Irish coastline, and he has been fortunate enough to discover and explore many significant previously undiscovered shipwrecks.

Exploring iconic shipwrecks such as the R.M.S. Justicia, H.M.S. Audacious and R.M.S. Lusitania has left a significant impression on Barry, which helped develop his desire to discover and explore shipwrecks.

Barry aims to share his passion for shipwreck exploration by capturing and sharing his images of many previously unphotographed shipwrecks including R.M.S. Amazon, H.M.S. Viknor and H.M.S. D6.

Barry has also been part of many international shipwreck expeditions, most recently in September 2021 where he formed part of an international team of divers who undertook the first internal exploration of HMHS Britannic which lies in 120 m of water in the Kea Channel in Greece. This expedition was funded by the Explorers Club and aimed to document key internal elements of the ship which had never been accessed by divers previously. 

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to James Neal.     James has been passionate about scuba diving and the aquatic realm since childhood, having grown up watching Jacques Cousteau on TV, along with Robinson Crusoe, Stingray and such like.  He suffered a subarachnoid Haemorrhage, grade 4 bleed on the brain, fatal in 80% of cases and was told he would never dive again! That was almost 12 years and over 1,200 dives ago!  Unfortunately, he has experienced stigmatism and discrimination  because of his haemorrhage ever since!

He is  an IDC Staff Instructor, soon to be Master Instructor and a  technical diver, hypoxic trimix and full cave trained cave diver. 

James has recently taken on the role of Brand Ambassador for Narked at 90 that compliments his role as brand ambassador for Sea & Sea Ltd representing the Huish Outdoors brands in the UK, which are: Atomic Aquatics, BARE, Hollis, Oceanic, Stahlsac & Zeagle.

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Website: www.InDepth.club

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Stuart Douglas.  Stuart is an experienced mine clearance diver who served in the Royal Navy from 1982 to 1997, initially as an electronics apprentice before becoming a Ship's Diver. He later became a Royal Navy Clearance Diver, specializing in explosive ordnance disposal and supporting UK Special Forces in maritime counter-terrorism roles.  He tells us about being a PADI instructor and his up coming 209 mile ultramarathon across Iceland from North to South. The Great Norse Run that he is doing with his wife.  He is raising money for The Royal Navy Clearance Divers' Association Charity

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Hollie Teggart.  Hollie currently studying Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton and will be finishing in September 2025. She has been an Instructor with RAID and BSAC for two years and  PADI and SSI for one year. Hollie has been working at Diveshack Malta as a recreational and technical instructor so we hear more about diving in Malta too.

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Dominic Robinson.  Dominic  Robinson is a technical deep diver who specialises in exploration and in particular ship wrecks around the British Isles and he documents his adventures on his YouTube Channel..

YouTube         https://www.youtube.com/@D33pUK

Instagram       https://www.instagram.com/d33puk/#

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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Emma Biran.  Emma is a PADI Staff Instructor, therapeutic counsellor and mental health professional.  Emma has merged these professions into a unique program called Self Confident Diver, which has been endorsed by PADI as a distinctive programme.  The programme offers coaching and counselling sessions specifically designed for individuals who experience anxiety or panic when scuba diving. Throughout her career, she has witnessed numerous individuals lose confidence in their diving abilities due to past experiences and anxiety.

 The Dive Confident mission is to enable individuals to build resilience and restore confidence.

 www.self-confident-diver.com

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