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Stuart Cove – Legend of Underwater Filming & Shark Diving In this interview we hear stories from the one and only Stuart Cove of Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas.  Raised in the Bahamas Stuart had grown up in the diving industry working as a child in the first dive center in Nassau.  Stuart learned to dive […]

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Dan & Betty Orr – Champions of Diving Safety In this interview we hear stories from a very well-know husband and wife team in the diving industry Dan and Betty Orr.  These diving legends have focused on diving safety unlike anyone else in the industry.  Dan Orr recently retired as President of Divers Alert Network […]

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Nadia Aly – Underwater Photographer and Expedition Legend

In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary photographer and expedition leader Nadia Aly.

Today’s guest is the founder and creative talent behind diving’s largest social media brand – I’m sure you’ve heard of it – ScubaDiverLife

Bio

Nadia Aly is an award winning wildlife photographer, with a focus on underwater marine life. Her primary goal is to educate people globally, about the diverse populations of sea creatures that exist in our oceans. She captures their beauty and uniqueness with her camera and then publishes these photographs and videos. She does this in an effort to raise awareness and interest in supporting efforts to conserve our oceans and their inhabitants.

As she continues to master the art of underwater photography, she takes interested clients on numerous underwater expeditions every year, through her company Scuba Diver Life Expeditions. Her specialties are the sardine run out of South Africa and the humpback swims out of Tonga, where she takes guests to swim up close and personal with the whales.

Nadia is also the owner of scubadiverlife.com an online news portal for scuba diving and ocean conservation enthusiast.

She holds a masters degree in digital media from the center for digital media in Vancouver BC. This program is a result of joint collaboration between university of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr Institute and private industry sponsors.

Items In This Podcast

• Discover Scuba at age 12
• Masters in Fine Arts
• How entering a video contest started her professional diving journey
• Traveling 10 months of the year
• Favorite diving destinations
• Scuba Diver Life
• NadiaAly.com

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Joe Dituri – Hyperbaric Medicine Researcher & Exploration Legend

In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary hyperbaric medicine researcher and diving explorer Joe Dituri.

Bio

Commander Joseph Dituri enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1985. He served continuously on active service upon various ships and shore stations where he was involved in every aspect of diving and special operations work from saturation diving and deep submergence to submersible design and clearance diving. Now that he is retired from 28 years of active service to the United States, he is the president of the International Board of Undersea Medicine. He also volunteers his time as the CEO of the Association for Marine Exploration. He is an invited speaker on motivational, sea and space related topics.

Joseph earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina as well as a masters degree in Astronautical Engineering from Naval Post Graduate School in California. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of South Florida.

Joseph is the author of numerous diver-training manuals, a co-author of the book “Tao of Survival Underwater”, a contributing author to the Navy Diving Manual, and has been published in several journals including those produced by the American Society of Naval Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. CDR Dituri was also a member of the prestigious special operations parachute demonstration team. He is a class “D” Licensed Sky Diver, a one atmosphere suit Pilot and a Level three certified Systems Engineer and Program Manager for the Department of Defense.

Commander Dituri’s personal awards include: three Navy Achievement Medals, a Joint Service Achievement Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, four Navy Commendation Medals, a Joint Service Commendation Medal and a Joint Meritorious Service Medal.

He is also a member of the American Bureau of Shipping Special Committee on Building and Classing Undersea Vehicles and Hyperbaric Systems and the National Offshore Advisor Committee for Commercial Diving Safety. Joseph enjoys writing books, skydiving and has a long-term goal of being a civilian astronaut.

Items In This Podcast

• First scuba dive while changing zinc plates at the age of 10
• Career in US Navy diving
• Finding a new species of fish
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and traumatic brain injuries
• Drdeepsea.com
• Undersea Oxygen Clinic
• Joe’s new book Secrets In Depth

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Jean-Marc Barr  – Actor, Producer, Director & Star of The Big Blue In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with Jean-Marc Barr, legendary actor, producer, director and star of the epic motion picture The Big Blue. Jean-Marc Barr was an aspiring young actor in his late 20’s when renown French director […]

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