Underwater360 Chat! Podcast

Hear all about the best tips, experiences, and discussion on side-mount and back mount diving from some of the diving professionals in Asia! Speakers: Commander Vishwanath Rajan [India] Technical and Public Safety Diving Instructor, Founder and Director of Scuba Evolution India Yvonne Press [Germany] Director, Dark Horizon Diving Andy Davis [UK] Independent Technical Sidemount Wreck Instructor, Scuba Tech Philippines Edmund Yiu [HongKong SAR] RAID Regional Head for Greater China, Examiner, Recreational, Technical OC, CCR Instructor Trainer, Full Cave Instructor Moderator: James Costello [#UK] RAID Examiner Director, Diving Solutions (Asia), Director RAID - SMB

Join the "The Epic Journey of Recycled Marine Plastic with Ocean Hero, Rob Thompson, from Odyssey Innovation as he shares his experience and journey in circular economy, plastic innovation and recycling together with Swietenia from Dvers Clean Action and Mathilda D'Silva Ocean Purpose Project. Rob Thompson [UK] Conservationist and Social Entrepreneur, Managing Director of Odyssey Innovation Ltd Plus, do not miss the dialogue exchange with; Swietenia Puspa Lestari [Indonesia] Executive Director of Divers Clean Action Mathilda D'Silva [Singapore] Founder of Ocean Purpose Project

Hear from Tim Ho as he shares his thought process behind how he manages to achieve his own creative spin on some of the most common marine life, turning them into spectacular photos! Host: Adam Hanlon [UK] Publisher and Editor-at-large, Wetpixel  Guest: Tim Ho [Malaysia] Underwater photographer, ADEX Ambassador for Underwater Photography (Compact Camera)

Find out the story behind Green Fins and its upcoming projects!  Invited speaker: Sam Craven A marine biologist - turned conservationist who has been diving for 20 years (2001). She is currently the programmes manager at Reef World Foundation where she has been working since 2012, focusing on the Green Fins programme and bringing in practical tools to governments, marine tourism businesses and communities around the world. Host: Tricia Ong, UW360 Producer: Nora Ismail, UW360

Moderator:  Jimmy Choo [Singapore]  Founder Of Red Scuba, SSI TXR Instructor Trainer, PSAI Instructor Trainer, Raid Technical Instructor Trainer, Megalodon & Poseidon CCR Instructor and GUE Instructor Speakers:  Jeffrey Glenn [Australia] Padi Course Director, Tecrec Instructor Trainer TDI Instructor Trainer, Raid Instructor Trainer OC/CCR Advanced Trimix IT, Advance Wreck IT, Raid Cave 2/ TDI Full Cave Instructor, JJCCR/XCCR/ SF2 Instructor GUE C1/T1 Diver Robin Cuesta [France] IANTD Diving Instructor, Cave Instructor and Explorer, TRITON Rebreather Instructor And General Manager Of Sulawesi Dive Trek Marc Crane [UK] SSI XR International Training Director, TDI Advanced Mixed Gas CCR Instructor Trainer, REVO, APD, XCCR, KISŠ, Poseidon Instructor, Managing Director Of TekDeep Asia and Diving Safety Supervisor Unseen Expeditions Scientific Research Projects

Moderator: David Strike (#Australia) ADEX Ambassador for Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club Speaker: Richard Nicholls Dive store owner, former equipment wholesaler and underwater videographer, Australian-based Richard Nicholls is a PADI course director, and one of the handful of pioneers who helped popularise the recreational use of nitro, SCR’s and technical mixed gas diving in Australia in the early 90s.

99% of the blue whale population have been killed as a result of whaling. Join us to find out the human impact on these whales, and what we can do to be safe-keep these creatures. 

Listen in to our first DiveTube podcast where we uncover the rich history of near-naked diving of the Ama divers in Japan! 

Moderator: David Strike (#Australia) ADEX Ambassador for Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club Speaker:  Bret Clifton Gilliam, the founder of Technical Diving Institute (TDI), is a pioneer in technical diving.  Gilliam has founded and sold six companies since 1971, comprising if V.I. Divers Ltd, Ocean Quest International, AMF Yachting Group, G2 Publishing Inc, Divesafe Insurance and International Training Inc. As Vice President and CEO, he was instrumental in taking UWATEC Public in a sale for 44 million Dollars to JWA in 1997 and sold his publishing company ISCUBA Times and Deep Tech to Petersen/E-Map in 1999.  His entrepreneurial success in the diving industry has made him a multi-millionaire.  The aggregate value of his companies when sold was in excess of $80 million.  Get deep and personal with Bret Gilliam. Listen in to find out what started it all for him as he shares his life stories (and even some of his near-death experiences)! 

Can a diver be not a strong swimmer? Hear from Sarah Hishan, a lawyer-diver-supermom, as she shares some of her challenges with the water.  We learn how she juggles a career as a Human Rights Lawyer, raising a child, and of course her love for the ocean - and how they all connect. As she takes on different roles in her life, Sarah recounts how being an ADEX ambassador started it all and shares what's next for her.  Invited Guest: Sarah Hishan ADEX Ocean Ambassador (2012-2013) Human Rights Lawyer and Diver Host: Tricia Ong, UW360 Producer: Nora Ismail, UW360