UTD Scuba Diving Podcast
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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May 20, 2020 • 59min
UTD Podcast #6 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving Vol. 1
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
May 8, 2020 • 1h 1min
UTD Podcast #5 – What are Your Scuba Diving Goals?
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.
May 3, 2020 • 1h 4min
UTD Podcast #4 – Scuba Coaching with Cycling Coach Tom Danielson
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
Apr 20, 2020 • 1h 15min
UTD Podcast #3 – Public Safety Diving and UTD Training
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.
Apr 7, 2020 • 39min
UTD Podcast #2 – Ghost Net Removal Diving
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
Mar 30, 2020 • 36min
UTD Podcast #1 – Recreational Side Mount Diving
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.'
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