Ep 11: How Partnering With Animals Can Save Humanity
Release Date: 02/10/2023
Beneath The Waves Radio
Join the team live from the Turks & Caicos as they recount their latest mind bending experience - swimming alongside a humpback mother, calf, and male escort. Joined by new friends Mateen and Paisley, get ready to open your hearts and dive into a lifelong ocean dream fulfilled.
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We sit down with ocean conservationist and Caribbean expert Tadzio Bervoets as he recounts a week diving in the Galapagos, talks blue carbon with the squad, and wonders if a tiger shark has ever consumed a square grouper or two... and what the results would be.
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Join us for special episode with guest Cristina 'Mitty" Mittermeier, world reknowned photographer, explorer, and conservationist. We reminisce on our first dives together, the early stages of our partnership with SeaLegacy, and all of the places that the concept "blue natural capital" will take us.
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The squad takes to slopes for a team building trip, where Austin & Wells have years of ski experience while Liv and Sami each haven't donned ski boots in over a decade. Thankfully, no bones were broken as the team recounts how they persevered through ups and downs and arrived at the lodge at the end of the day, victorious.
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Liv rejoins the podcast as the team recounts an upcoming ski trip, planning how to put camera tags on nurse sharks, & Austin's new found love of air-tagging Beneath The Waves' research gear & R/V Tigress...which the team quickly turns into a prank by dropping air tags where they're not supposed to be.
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Join us as we chat with special guest Justin Walter - a travel content creator with over 16 years of experience as a host, expert, writer, influencer and producer. We first connected with Justin through the Shark Week world, and have worked on multiple film productions together. And so of course, we cover everything travel - from finding the balance between experiecing the moment vs. documenting it, to pondering if we should do a special film series featuring the dads of BTW team members playing their roles aboard our research vessel R/V Tigress - in what would surely become an episode of...
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Description: The team dives right into this Ep as we breakdown a recent news article highlighting how remote animal tracking can allow humanity to be better protected from natural disasters, where for the first time our tiger shark monitoring research is mentioned alongside those who study hedgehogs - proving that everything is truly connected on our beautiful planet. We then dive into our amazing work on the Mola Mola, the ocean sunfish, as Ollie explains our new Ocean Giants program - where we partner with animals to learn more about the natural world and how humanity can live a more healthy...
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Description: Your favorite podcast returns in our first episode of 2023, diving right into the fascinating and fast-evolving world of blue carbon with our Director of Blue Carbon Wells Howe. Much of our programming and strategy for this year focus around the topic, as our discovery of the world's largest seagrass meadow has left us more hungry and curious than ever as we push to explore our ocean and leverage this incredible self-funding mechanism to protect it. Where to Find the Guests: Dr. Austin Gallagher: CEO: Wells Howe: Director of Blue Carbon: Sami Kattan: Media...
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Description: On our second episode recorded live from the Turks & Caicos we sit down with the legendary Phillip Shearer. Captain, guide, naturalist, wildlife photographer, whale whisperer... Phil has done it all and has been with us on a majority of our top ocean encounters in the Turks. Enjoy this deep dive as we journey into the origins of Phil's passion for the ocean and riff on some of our most insane shared experiences - from breaching humpback whales to sharing space with wild tiger and hammerheads sharks. Where to Find the Guests: Phillip Shearer: Captain, Guide, Naturalist: Dr....
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Description: This week the squad is coming at you from the Turks & Caicos in our first in-person recording, an hour after an incredible day conducting research on the water. The Turks has always suprised us with unbelievalbe ocean encounters, and 'The Atlantis Of The Sea' continued to provide on this trip. The team split up into two boats for double the adventure, where Liv had her first enocunter swimming with a pod of bottlenose dolphins and our second boat had an unreal wild great hammerehead encounter that Austin brought in with his Sharkweek magic & Sami was able to capture in the water....
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The team dives right into this Ep as we breakdown a recent news article highlighting how remote animal tracking can allow humanity to be better protected from natural disasters, where for the first time our tiger shark monitoring research is mentioned alongside those who study hedgehogs - proving that everything is truly connected on our beautiful planet.
We then dive into our amazing work on the Mola Mola, the ocean sunfish, as Ollie explains our new Ocean Giants program - where we partner with animals to learn more about the natural world and how humanity can live a more healthy and sustainable existence through harnessing the secrets of Nature.
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Where to Find the Guests:
Dr. Austin Gallagher: CEO: https://www.austingallagher.com/
Dr. Oliver Shipley: Senior Research Scientist: https://www.instagram.com/ollieshipley27/
Jamie Fitzgerald: Managing Director: https://www.instagram.com/jamielfitzgerald/
Sami Kattan: Media Director: https://www.instagram.com/sami.kattan/