

UTD Scuba Diving Podcast
UTD Scuba Diving
In scuba diving there is training and there is certification. Certification has always been the holy grail of every scuba course. But at Unified Team Diving we are redefining how scuba training works. Our UTD instructors are coaches and our students are clients and our process is to make you an awesome, badass diver. https://utdscubadiving.com
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Sep 17, 2026 • 1h 9min
The birth of DIR, a talk with Dan Volker and Bill Mee
A loose conversation with these 2 superstars. They were there in the early days of the development of DIR ( Doing it Right), the philosophy we still adhere to.We start off hot, and the introduction realy start first 8 minutes into the conversation :-) Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Jun 21, 2026 • 42min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #116, Breathing through a straw
Ben is driving his car and got inspired to talk about gas density and how this is overlooked by many. The inspiration came from listening to an episode of The Great Dive Podcast, TGDP: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-great-dive-podcast/id1224724509?i=1000771332334the book was not Oxygen and The Diver it was Chamber Divers, by Rachel LanceHope you enjoy Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

May 14, 2026 • 1h 1min
#115, The Path to Completion, what to do after training and many tangents with a special guest.
This is a fun one, first of all I roped in Jeff to join me for a Pod :-) That was good talking with him again like this. But we mostly discuss the "Path to Completion" document we use for our divers at all levels. As per normal for us, we go on several tangents and go off topic every once in a while. Hope you enjoy this one with Jeff.Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

May 4, 2026 • 1h 2min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #114 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Neil Egerton
In this episode, we introduce Neil Egerton, our instructor from Ireland — land of the four-leaf clover and that beloved dark brew, Guinness. Neil has been working hard to build a thriving community of thinking divers in his corner of the world. You can find out more about Neil here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CRFWURzv2/?mibextid=wwXIfrSend us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Dec 22, 2025 • 1h 2min
#113, Ben and Jiri discuss Diving computers, and why they are....
In this episode, ben has a fellow instructor on the show Jiri Pokorny. https://utdscubadiving.com/member/jiri-pokorny/They talk all things dive computer, The why, the why not, transmitters, algorithms, and much more. I hope you enjoy.Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Nov 15, 2025 • 18min
#112, Ben talks to Arne Sieber on Solid State O2 cell at DEMA 2025
In this episode, Ben talks to Arne Sieber on Oxygen Cells, specifically Solid State Oxygen cells or more accurately, Optical Oxygen Analyzing Cells. This is interesting, cutting-edge stuff for the scuba and CCR nerds amongst us. Have fun.Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Sep 15, 2025 • 1h 26min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #111 - The ingredients of a good diver. Do you have what it takes?
Join Ben Bos and James Mott in this episode of the UTD Scubadiving podcast, where they discuss the ingredients of a good diver and how the UTD 10 covenants help keep you on the straight and narrow when you develop yourself as a diver. For context, here you can read them for yourself. https://utdscubadiving.com/utds-10-covenants/Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Aug 18, 2025 • 37min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #110 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Greg Wolff
This episode kicks off our "Meet the UTD Instructors" series. We will be bringing you a series of episodes, interspersed with our regularly scheduled podcasts and carcasts, introducing some of our UTD instructors. You'll have an opportunity to discover the incredibly varied paths that each of these powerful divers took on their way to UTD leadership.In this episode we meet UTD Instructor Greg Wolff. Greg is based on the east coast of the U.S. in Maryland. Having just completed UTD Cave 2, Greg talks about staying on a plateau, and is poised to begin to accept clients as a UTD Scuba Coach.To reach Greg, click here.https://utdscubadiving.com/member/greg-wolff/For more information about the UTD Scuba Coaching program, click here. https://utdscubadiving.com/utd-scuba-coachingSend us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Aug 14, 2025 • 23min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #109 – Jeff Carcast – The Bigger the Blob the Better the Job
The electrical engineers creed about soldering: "The bigger the blob, the better the job."The rock climbers creed about rope: "If you don't know the knot, tie a lot."These two sayings, unfortunately, summarize much of the recreational scuba training that is currently happening. Without an understanding of "why," instructors are showing students how to do skills and expecting them to fully learn those skills. That, however, is impossible.In this short carcast, Jeff looks at the concept of proper education and its most vital cousin: retention.For more information on the UTD Coaching Program, click here.To contact us at UTD, click here. Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving

Jun 2, 2025 • 44min
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #108 – Jeff Carcast – UTD's History and Me
For about two years Jay has been asking me for a history of UTD. It's one of the tasks I never completed, until now. On a long drive from San Diego up to the Sierra Nevada Mountains I recorded a look back at Unified Team Diving – how did it start, where did it start, what were some of the ups, and what were some of the downs.For those of you who have been around UTD for a long time, much of this will sound familiar. For those of you who have come to UTD more recently, this should give you some perspective on how we became what we are today.Questions or comments? Click here to contact Jeff.Or click here to contact Jeff, Ben, and Jay.Send us Fan MailAlso check out our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnifiedTeamDiving


