Episode 187 Maria Munn Award Winning Author & Underwater Photographer
Release Date: 09/23/2024
Episode 214 James Soos Dive with Jimmy
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This week on The BiG Scuba Podcast, Gemma and Ian sit down with James Soos — British Army veteran, technical diving instructor, and founder of Dive With Jimmy, a thriving dive centre based in Bedfordshire. James has led teams during his military career and has dived all over the world. As an instructor with both BSAC and SSI, he teaches everything from recreational diving right through to advanced technical and closed-circuit rebreather courses. Qualified to dive to 100 metres on both open and closed circuit, he has also worked as Cruise Director in some of the planet’s most iconic dive...
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Episode 213 Nick Schiller – Sidemount Diver and WW2 Whaleback Boat Recovery
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This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Nick Schiller. Nick is a keen lover of being on and under the water. He is a sidemount diver and an assistant BSAC instructor. He has dived extensively in the UK as well as Egypt, Iceland, Mexico and Tobago. He loves diving with a scooter and is keen on helping people out removing tarpaulins, ropes, etc form props, searching for mobile phones and wedding rings. So that's how he got involved with S32 - a phone call "could you just come and inspect a sunken WW2 air sea rescue boat for us?" - a year later and Nick is very involved in trying...
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Episode 212 Jo Moseley
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Episode 212 Jo Moseley Paddleboarder, Diver and Author This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Jo Moseley. Jo Moseley, 60, is a bestselling award winning author of three books about paddleboarding.. At university in Scotland she also learned to dive, becoming her university club captain and qualifying as a BSAC Dive Leader in the late 80s. The west coast of Scotland was a favourite diving location. Jo loves wild swimming, touring the UK in her van called,...
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Episode 211 Diving in the Farne Islands
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This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian bring a roving report from their Sept 2025 trip to Seahouses and diving around the Farne Islands off the North East coast of the UK. Our local dive centre organised the trip using the dive boat services of . We mention our stop off on the way to Seahouses to see the monument. This is a full-sized, steel representation of an Avro Lancaster Bomber, elevated 15 meters high to create the illusion of flight, located on the border of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England The BiG Scuba Podcast is proudly supported...
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Episode 210 Our adventures in Lundy & under Swanage Pier
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Episode 210 – Our Adventures in Lundy and Under Swanage Pier This week, the BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian, along with Scuba Honey, head to Ilfracombe to board the Barbara B with Lundy Diving for some unforgettable underwater adventures with the playful seals of Lundy Island. You can find out more at: From there, our journey continues to South Devon, where we dive Chesil Cove, catch up with Colin at DIR Direct (), and bump into our good friend Dave Mason enjoying the local waters. Along the way, we give shout-outs to Glen Barnes from the Seahorse Dive Club (), coastal hikers (and fellow...
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Episode 209 The BiG Auto-Trail road trip and diving adventures
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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian report live from their road trip to Seahouses, Northumberland and diving adventures around the Farne Islands with Serentiy Farne Island Boat Tours https://farneislandstours.co.uk/ They also visit and catch up with Scoobs at the Dive Shack and have a dive in West Lake to see the new attractions. Gemma and Ian drove the Auto-Trail Excel 620g throughout the trip and give a review of the motorhome… safe to say they loved it! https://www.auto-trail.co.uk/discover-the-award-winning-auto-trail-excel-range/ The BiG Scuba Podcast is brought to you by...
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Episode 208 Barry McGill Technical Diver & Deep Wreck Photographer
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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Barry McGill. Barry McGill is a deep wreck photographer and CCR instructor trainer with Indepth Technical. His main area of focus is exploration of deep-water shipwrecks around the Irish coastline, and he has been fortunate enough to discover and explore many significant previously undiscovered shipwrecks. Exploring iconic shipwrecks such as the R.M.S. Justicia, H.M.S. Audacious and R.M.S. Lusitania has left a significant impression on Barry, which helped develop his desire to discover and explore shipwrecks. Barry aims to share his...
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Episode 207 James Neal Technical Diver & Brand Ambassador
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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to James Neal. James has been passionate about scuba diving and the aquatic realm since childhood, having grown up watching Jacques Cousteau on TV, along with Robinson Crusoe, Stingray and such like. He suffered a subarachnoid Haemorrhage, grade 4 bleed on the brain, fatal in 80% of cases and was told he would never dive again! That was almost 12 years and over 1,200 dives ago! Unfortunately, he has experienced stigmatism and discrimination because of his haemorrhage ever since! He is an IDC Staff...
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Episode 206 Stuart Douglas Mine Clearance Diver
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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Stuart Douglas. Stuart is an experienced mine clearance diver who served in the Royal Navy from 1982 to 1997, initially as an electronics apprentice before becoming a Ship's Diver. He later became a Royal Navy Clearance Diver, specializing in explosive ordnance disposal and supporting UK Special Forces in maritime counter-terrorism roles. He tells us about being a PADI instructor and his up coming 209 mile ultramarathon across Iceland from North to South. The Great Norse Run that he is doing with his wife. He is raising money for The...
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Episode 205 Hollie Teggart Sidemount & Technical Diver
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The BiG Scuba Duo, Gemma and Ian chat to Hollie Teggart. Hollie currently studying Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton and will be finishing in September 2025. She has been an Instructor with RAID and BSAC for two years and PADI and SSI for one year. Hollie has been working at Diveshack Malta as a recreational and technical instructor so we hear more about diving in Malta too. Instagram: Facebook: Youtube: TikTok:...
info_outlineIn this episode join us in conversation with Maria Munn. Maria is a multi-award winning underwater photographer, author, journalist and shark stalker, who fell in love with whale sharks and the ocean whilst in hospital on the end-of-life pathway, after being run over for the second time and left with 15 fractures and life-changing injuries. She launched the first ever underwater photography courses in 2005, ran PADI's first ever Digital Underwater Photography Course for beginners with Emperor Divers using compact cameras and over 20 of her guests have gone on to win prizes and become established writers and photographers. She loves to chat to visitors about all things ocean, recycled plastics and teach youngsters about what can be found on our local beaches and about local marine life through snorkelling courses from her Ocean Studio in Swanage, Dorset where she also designs and creates personalised ocean gifts and canvas prints both from her own work as well as visitors. She also has just launched a new book and the UK's first dedicated underwater photography school for beginners to show how beginners can also create beautiful imagery with both Phones and Go Pros as well as compact cameras.
Gemma and Ian also discuss what they have been up to recently too.
Website https://theoceanstudio.co.uk/
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