UTD Scuba Diving Podcast

Send us a textWhen UTD Scuba Diving reorganized in January 2020, we opted to move our online course content into a monthly subscription model. This gives every student access to every course we offer in their category. The benefits are huge, for both the student and the instructor. In this short, bonus podcast, we look at the model, the benefits, and more.Subscribe at www.utdscubadiving.com.

Send us a textWe continue our discussion of scuba diving coaching with Jeff, Ben, and Alan. How does the Unified Team Diving coaching program work? How do you start? Why do we call you a scuba athlete? What are our expectations of you as a scuba coaching athlete? All this and a ton more.For more info on the UTD Scuba Diving program, click here.To contact us, click here.

Send us a textA collection of random questions and more random answers:Why is nitrox a ridiculous gas?Why don't we use "team bailout" gas...why does each diver carry their own rock bottom?Why does Ben have a dry suit dump valve on his hood?And much more.Have an obscure question? Send it to us.www.utdscubadiving.cominfo@utdscubadiving.com

Send us a textUTD CEO Jeff Seckendorf, Training Director Ben Bos, and head of the UTD Scuba Coaching Program Alan Weinberg talk about goals and training measurements. Is your goal a certification card? Or is it great training that can eventually lead to certification? And how do we measure your skill level? Most sports have some measurement – power, speed, efficiency – but our metrics in scuba diving are tricky. But, we have the answer!Check out Unified Team Diving's latest podcast in the scuba coaching series.Find us at www.utdscubadiving.com.

Send us a textAs we expand our dive coaching program at UTD Scuba Diving, we talk with former pro cyclist and owner of CINCH Cycling, Tom Danielson. Tom coaches world class athletes in cycling and other sports and gives us his take on integrating an athletic coaching model into Unified Team Diving's scuba training model.Find us at utdscubadiving.comFind Tom at cinchcycling.cc

Send us a textIs public safety diving compatible with the scuba diving techniques we teach at UTD – team and situational awareness, proper trim and buoyancy, and non-silting propulsion techniques? Our guest is Shannon Buhl, UTD instructor and director of the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service. For close to 20 years Shannon has run a dive team that covers 9000 square miles in the middle of the United States. UTD CEO Jeff Seckendorf and UTD Training Director Ben Bos talk with Shannon about how he integrated the training he received at Unified Team Diving with the traditional public safety diving techniques common to many police and fire dive teams.

Send us a textWhat's it take to cut huge ghost fishing nets off a reef or wreck? Or raise abandoned fishing traps lost on the ocean floor? Join UTD CEO Jeff Seckendorf, UTD Training Director Ben Bos, and UTD Instructor and long-time ghost net diver Kim Cardenas for a look at the training and skills needed to help rid the ocean of all this dangerous lost fishing gear.Check out UTD (and contact us) at utdscubadiving.comCheck out Ocean Defenders at oceandefendersalliance.org

Send us a textThere is side mount diving, and there is side mount diving. In this episode UTD CEO Jeff Seckendorf and UTD's training director Ben Bos talk with special guest Sherrie Gould about her experiences as a recreational side mount diver. It's no longer just a 'cave thing.'