The Great Dive Podcast

This week the boys get "in the weeds" with their discussion spurred on by recent social media posts and comments. Gather round for a light hearted chat about everything from politics to psychology and how it relates to diving and divers! Have a listen!

It’s Devils Night, here in Detroit and TGDP has a terrifying show for this year’s Halloween Spooktacular. Get ready for ghosts and monsters. We tell a few tales of ghastly Great Lakes ghouls from the works of Fred Stonehouse and then Jamesy and Brando go out for couple drinks… it’s the only way to tell the tale of the The Thing Beneath Zug Island. Grab your gear, it’s time to dive the Detroit River on Devils Night.

The boys sit down with Terry Irvine and Jeff Lindsay to discuss their recent dive on the Britannic, the art of shipwreck photography, and the early DIR days.

The boys hit the streets and talk about the problems with DIR diving! Have a listen!!

This week the boys talk about getting older and staying DIR. We all age, we will all eventually lose strength and fitness, but does that mean you become more or less capable underwater? Join Jamesy and Brando as they earn a little bit of wisdom and remember to, “Never miss an opportunity to Shut the F#@K up.”

Thankfully the Great Dive Podcast has gone back to their roots and abandoned "ye olde pirate bullshit"! This week the boys begin a discussion on the genesis and evolution of the DIR approach to diving. Sparked by UTD's Podcast where Ben Bos Gyldenvang interviews two diving legends in the DIR world, BIll Mee and Dan Volker, about the beginnings of DIR diving and the early days of the WKPP, the boys cover the early days of Tech and Cave diving and how DIR was birthed out of the necessity of a systematic approach to diving that can begin on day one of Scuba 101 and grow with the diver as the diver continues to explore more complex and challenging environments. This is part one of what will be a multi part series on this topic. Have a listen!!

In honor of "Talk Like A Pirate Day", the boys retell the story of Roaring Dan Seavey. But what does this have to do with diving and diving instruction you aks? Well, you are going to have to listen to find out if there is anything to do with diving in this week's episode of The Great Dive Podcast!

This week the boys go deep, 50m deep, in Lake Michigan and discuss another deep air fatality. How long will it take for the scuba world to learn this lesson? There is a common thread amongst these deaths, they are not isolated occurrences.

A dropped fin upon exiting the water via ladder. What can something so simple and common teach us about ourselves as diving and how we dive? How we learn diving? How diving is taught? Join the boys as they discuss a short story and what can be learned through the lens of Human Factors In Diving. Have a listen!!

This week Jamesy and Brando go back in time to Jan 2026 to the Thunder Bay International Film Festival. Join us as we sit down with Cal Straub and Kathy Johnson and discuss some not so usual parts of diving the Great Lakes.