Underwater360 Chat! Podcast

Can a diver be not a strong swimmer? Hear from Sarah Hishan, a lawyer-diver-supermom, as she shares some of her challenges with the water.  We learn how she juggles a career as a Human Rights Lawyer, raising a child, and of course her love for the ocean - and how they all connect. As she takes on different roles in her life, Sarah recounts how being an ADEX ambassador started it all and shares what's next for her. 

Invited Guest: Sarah Hishan ADEX Ocean Ambassador (2012-2013) Human Rights Lawyer and Diver

Host: Tricia Ong, UW360

Producer: Nora Ismail, UW360

If you could have one question for Captain Paul Watson, what would it be? 🧐

The closing remarks to ADEX INDIA VIRTUAL EXPO 2020 by "the man behind the frontline of ocean's defence" – Captain Paul Watson from Sea Shepherd Global

Speaker:

1) Captain Paul Watson (Canada) Founder and CEO, Sea Shepherd

Moderator:

1) Nora Ismail (Singapore) ADEX Pixel Expo

Join the man that coined the term "technical diving", Michael Menduno, together with his fellow rebreather divers/friends, Dharshana Jayawardena, Edmund Yiu, Costantino Balestra, Guy Shockey and Georgia Hausserman as they put the loop on the contemporary issues in Rebreather Diving.

Moderator: 

Michael Menduno (USA)

Speaker:

Dharshana Jayawardena (Sri Lanka)

Costantino Balestra (Belgium)

Guy Shockey (Canada/USA)

Georgia Hausserman (USA)

Edmund Yiu (China)

PARLEY FOR THE OCEANS: TALK.COLLABORATE.CIRCULATE – FOR THE OCEAN

Moderator:

- Nora Ismail (Singapore) ADEX

Speakers:

- Shaahina Ali (Maldives) Director, Parley Maldives

PARLEY FOR THE OCEANS: TALK.COLLABORATE.CIRCULATE – FOR THE OCEAN

Moderator:

- Nora Ismail (Singapore) ADEX

Speakers:

- Shaahina Ali (Maldives) Director, Parley Maldives

Moderator:

David Strike (#Australia) ADEX Ambassador For Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club

Speaker:

Alex Santos (#Philippines) Founder and CEO of Philippine Technical Diver – PHILTECH, IANTD Cave Instructor, Commercial Diver & Member of the Filipino Cave Divers

Alex introduced tech diving to the Philippines in 1993 and was the Philippine licensee for IANTD. For years, he performed deep recovery of valuable objects and victims of drowning. His experience has been called upon many times during disasters at sea. Today Alex mainly does commercial diving. He and his team are known to work in brutal conditions allowing him to observe early signs of DCS and reverse it using in-water recompression. Cave exploration remains his true passion. With a background in Geology, he is better able to appreciate the value of underwater caves.

Moderator:

David Strike (#Australia) ADEX Ambassador For Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club

Speaker:

Alex Santos (#Philippines) Founder and CEO of Philippine Technical Diver – PHILTECH, IANTD Cave Instructor, Commercial Diver & Member of the Filipino Cave Divers

Alex introduced tech diving to the Philippines in 1993 and was the Philippine licensee for IANTD. For years, he performed deep recovery of valuable objects and victims of drowning. His experience has been called upon many times during disasters at sea. Today Alex mainly does commercial diving. He and his team are known to work in brutal conditions allowing him to observe early signs of DCS and reverse it using in-water recompression. Cave exploration remains his true passion. With a background in Geology, he is better able to appreciate the value of underwater caves.

The Canon Experience | Upclose with Pepe Arcos, Underwater Photographer and Filmmaker 

Pepe Arcos, underwater photographer and filmmaker, shares his Canon experience by getting up close and personal talking about how Canon science has helped him in his career, tips and best practices in getting the perfect shot and angle and considerations needed to perfect your art.

William Tan is one of Singapore's most famous underwater photographers. A violinist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, William travels extensively throughout Asia, photographing marine life and judging photo competitions. He shares with Underwater360 his insights in photography!

In Conversation with David Strike: Talking Confidentially with Simon Pridmore

Moderator:
David Strike (Australia) ADEX Ambassador for Technical Diving, Pioneer

Speaker:
Simon Pridmore (UK/Indonesia ) Author, Technical Diver, and Explorer

TALKING CONFIDENTIALLY

One of the pioneers of technical diving in Asia, Simon Pridmore’s diving career spans more than thirty years, during which time he has organised dive tours all around the world, owned a dive centre, run a regional diver training agency and been the international sales manager for a manufacturer of dive computers and rebreathers.

Condensing a little of his vast experience as a dive guide, divemaster, Instructor and Instructor Trainer into the ‘Scuba Confidential’ series of best-selling books, Simon Pridmore is a regular speaker at leading international dive conferences; a prolific writer whose articles have appeared in numerous diving magazines, and David Strike’s guest for a lively conversation that lifts the lid on some of diving’s lesser known secrets.

SIMON PRIDMORE

Simon Pridmore is a best-selling author of scuba diving books, travel books and scuba diving travel books. His latest publications are Dive into Taiwan and The Diver Who Fell from the Sky, a biography of Palau diving pioneer Francis Toribiong.

Originally from the UK, Simon has lived in Asia for almost 40 years. He was one of the region’s first technical diving instructors in the 1990s and owned Professional Sports Divers in Guam. He and his wife Sofie currently live in Bali, Indonesia but spend a lot of time exploring other places trying, but failing so far, to find a cure for their itchy feet.