Hey folks, one more little setback is that the iTunes link for The Surface Interval Show podcast is not currently working.
We’re working to fix that, but in the meantime, please download directly from this site.

Bear and I recorded Episode 21 tonight and I think it worked. Should be live within the next 24 hours…..

Believe it or not your hosts still dive and are still threatening to do the show.
Keep an eye on this site over the next day or two…..

Wollongong’s original dive centre, United Divers, recently completed its first PADI Instructor Development Course since becoming a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center.
Under the guidance of PADI Course Director Des Paroz (Co-Host and Producer of the Surface Interval Show podcast), two candidates undertook a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Program. The 6 Day OWSI [...]

Its been a while since the last episode of The Surface Interval Show podcast was released.  While we don’t have a good excuse, there are a number of reasons.
We’ve actually recorded about three shows that technical gremlins have got in the way of and we couldn’t post.  One was recorded live and the sound quality [...]

Dr Mercola has a terrific blog that discusses various issues relating to health and nutrition.
A blog post today discusses the 8 Most Poisonous Animals in the world.  The top 3 are marine animals found in Australian and other Indo Pacific oceans – The Box Jellyfish, the Marbled Cone Shell and the Blue Ringed Octopus. 
Number 5 [...]

Celebrating its tenth anniversary as a leading global forum dedicated to underwater adventure, exploration and education, the OZTeK’09 Diving Conference and Exhibition is ramping up to deliver another action-packed event that show-cases the very best that the world of diving has to offer.
To be staged at Australian Technology Park in Sydney, Australia, over the [...]

Marine biologist, underwater photographer, guest on the Surface Interval Show podcast and good guy Dave Harasti has recently co-authored a book with Mark Baine on the underwater life of the Port Moresby area of PNG.
Called The Marine Life of Bootless Bay, this is a wonderful collection of over 900 images, featuring in excess of 850 [...]

Widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most dynamic and exciting diving extravaganzas, the sixth OZTeK Diving Technologies Conference and Exhibition - OZTeK’09 - will take place over the week-end of the 21st - 22nd March 2009, at Australian Technology Park, in Sydney.
Featuring many of the world’s most informative and entertaining diving authorities as speakers [...]

From the UQ News Online website.  Please note emphasis (bold, italic, etc) is my own

More than 50 scientists of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies today declared the following statements unanimously:

We call on all societies and governments to immediately and substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Without targeted reductions, the ongoing damage to [...]