The Great Dive Podcast

The Great Dive Podcast

Grab your logbooks and gather around as James and Brando chat about your favorite subject and theirs, scuba diving. Each episode, these guys will share with each other an interesting and relevant story, tale, adventure or experience from under, in or on the water. It’s just like hanging out with a couple of cool buddies at the dive shop, on the dock or at the pub. Listen, learn and have fun with James Mott and Brandon Schwartz on The Great Dive Podcast. See and experience more at thegreatdivepodcast.com

Episodes

Episode 413-Dave Shaw Part V Synchronicity And The Diver

April 25, 2025 • 72 mins
What do deep cave dives, Mr T, the law, and synchronicity have in common? Find out in this weeks episode as the boys continue their deep dive into the continuing saga of the Dave Shaw Story! Have A Listen!!
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TGDP - Episode 412 - Dave Shaw IV.5 Quote Unquote

April 18, 2025 • 77 mins
James and Brando discuss a recent listener email regarding Cave Diving Speed Limits that were inspired by Episode 409. As we get deeper into the Dave Shaw story we see how his progress looks a lot like many divers’ journeys. What can we learn from Dave’s story and others? The boys try to answer the philosophical questions around Bushmans’s Hole.
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Episode 411-Dave Shaw IV Send Nudes

April 11, 2025 • 49 mins
We're talking about Nudibranchs you dirty minded listeners! In recognition of Testicular cancer awareness month, we've joined our sole corporate sponsor, Manscaped, in their efforts to raise awareness of Testicular cancer as well as Nudibranchs. What does this have to do with Dave Shaw's depth record story? Maybe nothing... maybe everything! But you won't find out unless you listen to Part IV of our deep dive into the Dave Shaw sto...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 410 - David Shaw 3 Batman and Robin

April 3, 2025 • 49 mins
Holy Logbooks, Batman! We are into April and still on Cave Month. This week, Dave breaks the Inspiration in over 180 Meters, not feet, of water. We are getting deeper, we are getting new machines, we are getting bent…. But nothing will stop us from the world records we are going to set in Bushman’s Hole.
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Episode 409-Like A Rhinestone Diver (Dave Shaw Part 2)

March 26, 2025 • 51 mins
Join the boys as they continue their deep dive into the events surrounding Dave Shaw's fatal last dive!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 408 - David Shaw 1

March 20, 2025 • 62 mins
Welcome back to TGDP International Cave Month. This week the boys finally get into the subject of this series, David Shaw. In roughly 5 years, Shaw traveled the world earning advanced diving certifications and filling his logbook with almost 300 dives. Soon he will try to hit that number 300 in depth, in meters, in a cave.
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The Great Dive Podcast - Epsisoe 407 - Deon Dreyer

March 6, 2025 • 81 mins
This week the boys get into a discussion about the hazards of diving. Hazards that should not be there with certification cards, log books, or mentors but somehow we seem to still have tragedies like the one discussed here about Deon Dreyer.
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Episode 406 - Boesmansgat Dives From Sheck's Journal And Nuno's Book

February 27, 2025 • 72 mins
Join the boys as they continue this deep dive into the world of deep cave diving. This epsiode centers on the dives conducted by Sheck Exley and Nuno Gomes in the Boesmansgat cave in South Africa. Reading through Sheck's personal journey detailing this adventure and his own accounts of the dives down into the 800 and 900 feet range of depth. And then to Nuno's own accounts of the same dives from his book. Have a listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 405 - Ariadne's Thread

February 20, 2025 • 71 mins
To get to the bottom of Bushman’s Hole and find out what happened to David Shaw, we first need to go back in time and learn a little more about this area of South Africa. This area known as the Cradle of Humankind has many caves, and with caves come cave tragedies.
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Episode 404-A Case Study of Respiratory Failure During Cave Dive

February 12, 2025 • 67 mins
Cave Week 2025 continues with this episode discussing a case study of a cave diving fatality. The incident involves an extremely deep cave dive on a rebreather with respiratory failure! Listen in as the boys discuss the details of what lead to this tragic dive! Have a listen!!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 403 - Lessons From The Cave

February 6, 2025 • 56 mins
TGDP International Cave Diving Month is back. This week we start off the series with a little lesson from the cave, we learn what a cave is and also what a cave is not.
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Episode 402 - Reservations For One At Table Six Please

January 29, 2025 • 52 mins
The boys are back and taking a break from the Dive Table series to discuss a "Lessons For Life Article". This week the story centers around a technical diving instructor that suffers a DCS incident. Was it avoidable? Listen to the ramblings of Ol' Jamesy and Older Brando as they discuss what happened to Trevor way back in the "almost 1900's"!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 401 - Dive Tables 7 Bendsopaloza

January 16, 2025 • 57 mins
How confident are you in the decompression model you are using? Is it just assumption and trust? Because the data can be frightening. All dive tables come with a percentage of probable risk of DCS. What can we do to dial in that probability and reduce our risk?
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The Great Dive Podcast-Episode 400 - The Changing Landscape of Decompression by Bill Hamilton

January 9, 2025 • 56 mins
This week the boys continue their talk on decompression and the evolution of dive tables and computer generated decompression algorithms based on decompression models. The discussion centers on an article from the late and great Dr Robert William (Bill) Hamilton where he discusses the changes undergone in the world of decompression theory and practice during the technical revolution in diving of the late 80's to 2000's. As we tr...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 399 - Dive Tables 5 Diving Deeper Into Decompression Science

January 1, 2025 • 59 mins
This week the boys get back to work after a little Christmas break. Picking up where Haldane left off we get into more changes of the traditional dive tables. Hempleman and the Royal Navy start to look more at diffusion than perfusion, bubbles are discovered by doppler and new thinking emerges from Hawaii, new names like Hills, Yont, Spencer begin to evolve the game of decompression even more.
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 336 - ColdMiser ReRelease

December 26, 2024 • 66 mins
Enjoy this replay of the Cold Miser Quiz Show while Jamesy and Brando enjoy a holiday break with friends and family.
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Episode 397 - Dive Tables 4 The Lexicon of Dive Tables

December 17, 2024 • 63 mins
This Christmas don't get relegated to the "kid's table'... join Jamesy and Brando at "The Dive Table"!! We'll laugh and sing Dive Carols and celebrate the most wonderful time of the year as we 'dive into" part 4 of our "in depth" discussion of dive tables!! This week we discuss the beginnings and evolution of the dive tables and decompression science! Have a listen!
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 396 - Dive Tables 3 A Hard Look

December 12, 2024 • 68 mins
In the mid-90’s everyone had a personal desktop computer and decompression software was the new tool for dive planning. This week, we discuss Bill Hamilton and George Irvine’s look at decompression software. The path for ascent was evolving, but we were still working with adapting the same old navy tables.
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The Great Dive Podcast-Episode 395 - Dive Tables 2 (Revenge of The Tables)

December 4, 2024 • 60 mins
Join the boys as they continue their discussion on dive tables (and everything else!)! How important are the numbers? What role does ascent rate play in the development of the different tables?? And what effect does it have on the test results? Is it even addressed in those old days? How hostile are those tables?? Should I just buy the most expensive dive computer? Why can't you do the math? How old are these guys??? What about th...
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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 394 - Dive Tables 1

November 28, 2024 • 64 mins
These are not your grandpa’s dive tables, anymore. What good are they for? Is it really necessary to know how to calculate dive profiles from a dive table? Listen as Jamesy and Brando talk tables and what the dive tables really symbolize.
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