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Episode 439 – Public Safety Diving for Advanced Beginners

11/28/2025

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This week the boys finish their discussion about a Public Safety Diving fatality. Tune as they compare this tragedy to other lessons we have learned in scuba diving over the years. Is this a public safety issue or is it more centered around scuba in general?
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Episode 438 - Public Safety Diving For Beginners

11/21/2025

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This week the boys discuss public safety diving. A topic sparked by a recent social media post detailing the death of a public safety diver during a training evolution. Is this a common occurrence? Do most issues and incidents go unreported if there is no fatality or injury? What does have to do with recreational scuba? All good questions plus many more come up when discussing this topic and especially this particular incident. Have a listen and let us know what ya think!
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The Incident:
divelawyer.com/proven-case-results/public-safety-diver-killed-during-training-training-negligence-inappropriate-rescue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOKnnlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe2VCwAGnSQXT_IW15oWjeCZKq-rWhl7III6kQ7StaqO_M7Y-KcSJcqwXxxxU_aem_v2ChaVoXlnFvSA8kzhh5yg

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Episode 437 – Tragedy Of The Alotar

11/14/2025

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This week, the boys get back to some good old school TGDP. Just because you are searching for a missing person, doesn’t make you a public safety diver. Join Jamesy and Brando as they dive into a 1987 tragedy of the ship Alotar and what was learned on that dive.
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Episode 436- The Gales of November

11/7/2025

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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when Jamesy and Brando turn the minutes to hours? Find out this week as the boys recant the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of it's tragic demise.
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Episode 435 - Halloween Spooktacular 2025

10/31/2025

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Get your tricks and treats out for another haunting episode of TGDP Halloween Spooktacular. This year the boys bubble up Brando’s hot tub with tales of ghosts, ghouls, and sea fiends from out of the deep.
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background music:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fubiyN7fz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAsAgpNnjOM

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Safety First - Episode 434

10/24/2025

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This week the boys diving in a companion journal to AquaCorps called Technical Diver. They compare this 1992 article by Michael Menduno with the state of the scuba world today. "Safety is the first priority. This is not recreational diving." That is what this episode of The Great Dive Podcast is all about.

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Episode 433 - Michael Menduno In Depth and Under Pressure

10/17/2025

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There's only one way to follow up that great interview with Rachel Lance, and that's with the boys paying tribute to the diving community's great ambassador and friend, Michael Menduno. Ol' Jamesy and Brando pull out aquaCorps magazine, Issue Number One and reflect on Michael's very first article called "Under Pressure". Have a listen!
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Episode 432- Oxygen 8

10/10/2025

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Join your buddies, James and Brando as they sit down and talk with Rachel Lance. She is the author of Chamber Divers, the story about J.B.S. Haldane and other scientists who changed special operations warfare during WWII. The story is fascinating and everything you think you know about nitrox and oxygen with diving might change after this episode.
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Oxygen 7 - AEDU

10/3/2025

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This week the boys are back with Kenneth Donald and his Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit. At 30 years old and knowing virtually nothing about diving underwater, he was given carte blanche authority to do whatever he wanted. The most important mission, a cool name.

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Episode 430 - Oxygen 6

9/26/2025

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Momma Always said breathing oxygen at a higher partial pressure than 1.6 was like a box of chocolates.... ya neva know what ya gonna git...  Join the boys this week as they continue their discussion on oxygen and it's effect on the diver. This week they look into Kenneth Donald and his book, "Oxygen and the Diver". Find out how the diving community came to the conclusion that breathing oxygen at higher than a 1.6ppO2 is really unpredictable. Have a listen!!
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Episode 429 – Oxygen 5

9/19/2025

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Buy Me A Coffee
In this episode, the boys introduce us to a British physician named Kenneth Donald. Around WWII time, most of the oxygen studies were focused on the medical uses for it. However underwater military operations uncovered a new threat to the navy divers. Oxygen Poisoning.

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Episode 428 - Oxygen 4

9/12/2025

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What do the acronyms ConVENTID, VENTID and ASS all have in common? Well, have a listen and find out as the boys continue their journey down Highway O2 while avoiding the pitfalls of oxygen Toxicity. Have A Listen!!
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Oxygen 3 - Episode 427

8/22/2025

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This week, Jamesy and Brando dive deeper into the topic of Oxygen. The oxygen window and high partial pressures. Oxygen is great but too much of anything great can go bad, and that is HomeNOstasis.

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Episode 426 - Oxygen 2

8/15/2025

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Shut that oxygen window!! It's getting hyperoxic in here! The boys continue their discussion of Oxygen and the role it plays in the diver's physiology! Have a listen!!
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Oxygen 1- Episode 425

8/8/2025

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The boys sit down and start a discussion about oxygen. Is it our friend? Or, is it our enemy underwater? What are the problems we face today when breathing oxygen compared to a couple of decades ago when oxygen and Nitrox were not as accepted as they are today. 
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Episode 424-The Divers Bill of Rights

8/1/2025

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BOO-YAH! TGDP is back to the grind and we're getting back in the groove with a cool article from 1998 entitled "The Divers Bill of Rights". Do we have rights as a diver? Do we have responsibilities as a diver? Is it maybe both? Have a listen and find out!
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Episode 423 – Summer Vacation

7/25/2025

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It’s summertime, and your buddies Jamesy and Brando are back after a 3 week break. Join them as they catch you up with their summer break. Talk about their lives, what they have been doing and more importantly diving.
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Episode 422- Valerie Taylor, Jaws, and The Meaning of Life

6/27/2025

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This week the boys continue their celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer blockbuster movie "Jaws"!! While examining the vital role Valerie Taylor played in obtaining the stunning film footage of much of the real shark action used in the making of Jaws, the boys learn of her decision to devote much of her life to helping reverse the "sharkphobia" that was created by the movie itself. This one get's deep and has me wondering if whether the boys have actually "jumped the shark" in this episode or have they made a podcast Summer Blockbuster? Have a listen!!
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Jaws50 - Episode 421

6/19/2025

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Jamesy and Brando celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie. Tune in as the boys talk about sharks, their favorite parts, and differences between the book and the movie.
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Episode 420- Shark Attack!?

6/13/2025

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This episode the boys kick off shark quarter with a Lessons For Life tale of a near death shark attack.... well, almost... well... nobody died.... and no one was attacked... but it was nearly fatal! Find out who, what, why, and how in this week's episode of The Great Shark Podcast...er.. I mean The Great Dive Podcast!!
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Never Too Shallow- Episode 419

6/6/2025

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Did you know that you can drown in only a teaspoon of water? That’s right. That’s why Brando doesn’t have any teaspoons in his house. Look out people. TGDP is back to their old shenanigans again. We are partying like it’s 1999, because it is this week. Tune in and join us for this little dive that is the total opposite of our Dave Shaw series… or is it?
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Episode 418- Dave Shaw The Final Chapter

5/29/2025

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FINALLY!!! It"s the end! Join us for the recap of the Dave Shaw story...!  Click Here To Listen!!
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Episode 417 - Dave Didn't Come Back

5/23/2025

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This week we finally make it to Dave Shaw's last dive. Unfortunately, Dave does not come back. It's a sad story but offers all of us divers many lessons to learn from.
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Episode 416-That's Diving Mate

5/16/2025

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What do you say when a diving project goes from bad to worse? I'll tell ya what I say... That's Diving mate! Join the boys as they continue to unwind the many little stories that is The Dave Shaw Story.
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Episode 415 - Dave Shaw VII That's Diving

5/9/2025

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This week the boys dive into Dave Shaw’s last dive. Risking your own life to do a world record dive is not as simple as it may seem, and it involves the lives and safety of many others. A team of divers, support divers, safety teams, medical team, a surface team. All of these need to come together, and all of them are at risk. But hey, That’s Diving.
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