Over 85% of Virginia’s public lands are submerged. From the coastal zone off the Eastern Shore to the wild mountain rivers, Virginia’s sunken and submerged history includes every chapter of human occupation going back nearly 20,000 years. Join us as Brendan Burke shares how the Virginia Department of Historic Resources is helping protect and learn…

Adapting to Dive “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”  ~Jacques-Yves Cousteau For many of us, slipping beneath the waves is an escape, but for individuals with disabilities the forgiving, zero-gravity environment of…

Discover Haiti Join us as Shushawn Schmal explains how she combines vacation adventures with social impact work in Haiti. She travels to Haiti on a regular basis where she and her husband support a small orphanage and work to promote the sport of scuba diving in Haiti. Their vision is to help educate the children,…

REEF Fish ID There are a lot of fish in the ocean, and having some idea of what you’ve seen makes it easier to share your fish tales with friends. Join us as John and Meredyth Nelson from Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) help us get better acquainted with some of the fish we see…

Coming Home What started as a liveaboard dive trip to the Red Sea, off the coast of Sudan, in 2014 became a 5-year quest to tell the story of the Macallé, and the one sailor who didn’t make it home. First, to find the WWII Italian submarine that went down in June 1940 off the…

Sea Stories of the OBX In 1942 the United States fought and suffered one of its greatest defeats of World War II, not in Europe or the Pacific but along the eastern seaboard. As men and war materials were being dispatched to foreign fronts, German U-boats arrived at America’s front door. In what has come…