UTD Scuba Diving Podcast
In scuba diving there is training and there is certification. Certification has always been the holy grail of every scuba course. But at Unified Team Diving we are redefining how scuba training works. Our UTD instructors are coaches and our students are clients and our process is to make you an awesome, badass diver. https://utdscubadiving.com
Episodes
111 episodes
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #111 - The ingredients of a good diver. Do you have what it takes?
Join Ben Bos and James Mott in this episode of the UTD Scubadiving podcast, where they discuss the ingredients of a good diver and how the UTD 10 covenants help keep you on the straight and narrow when you develop yourself as a diver. For conte...
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Episode 112
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UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #110 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Greg Wolff
This episode kicks off our "Meet the UTD Instructors" series. We will be bringing you a series of episodes, interspersed with our regularly scheduled podcasts and carcasts, introducing some of our UTD instructors. You'll have an opportunity to ...
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Episode 104
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37:16
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #109 – Jeff Carcast – The Bigger the Blob the Better the Job
The electrical engineers creed about soldering: "The bigger the blob, the better the job."The rock climbers creed about rope: "If you don't know the knot, tie a lot."These two sayings, unfortunately, summarize much of the recrea...
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Episode 110
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23:15
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #108 – Jeff Carcast – UTD's History and Me
For about two years Jay has been asking me for a history of UTD. It's one of the tasks I never completed, until now. On a long drive from San Diego up to the Sierra Nevada Mountains I recorded a look back at Unified Team Diving – how did it sta...
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Episode 109
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44:22
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #107 – Jeff Passes the Torch to Ben and Jay
Dear UTD Community,Today, we’re sharing a meaningful milestone in the journey of Unified Team Diving.After years of inspiring leadership, Jeff is stepping down from his leadership role at UTD. His vision has shaped the path we’ve ...
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Episode 108
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50:53
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #106 – Jeff's Carcast - Comparing Yourself to Others
Do you feel like you are good enough? That is the core of this episode. In diving, and in sports, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others and that can be a huge impediment to any successful outcome in a class or training program. The mo...
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Episode 107
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22:22
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #105, Ben's Training Corner: Are you on the peak of Mount Stupid?
Hi, in this episode Ben will discuss the Dunning Kruger effect. A cognitive bias that was created in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger. It gives a graphical representation of the development when learning new things. It's very...
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Episode 106
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41:31
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #104 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Rene Krikke
Meet UTD Instructor Rene Krikke, based in Blomberg, Germany. Rene is teaching across northern Europe and brings a fascinating perspective to our "Meet the Instructors" series. Rene stumbled into diving while on a holiday in Egypt, got hooked, m...
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45:24
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #103 – Jeff's Carcast - The Big Scuba Lie
How many dives do you have? I believe the answer to this question is the biggest lie in scuba diving. As instructors, we are trained to take this answer with a grain of salt. In this short carcast, Jeff takes a look at logging dives, logging fl...
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Episode 103
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24:33
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #102 - Jeff's Carcast – How Do You Stay Motivated?
Do you feel like you are in a rut with your diving? Doing the same dives over and over? How do you stay motivated year after year? These are the question we look at today in another of Jeff's soon-to-be-famous UTD Carcast episodes.
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Episode 102
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13:10
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #101 – Ben's Training Corner - Dive Beautifully
In this inaugural episode of Ben's short podcast series, "The Training Corner," he looks at the concept of 'dive beautifully.' How do you gain your own level of elegance in diving, particularly around propulsion techniques.As always, if...
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Episode 101
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15:23
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #100 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - DEMA 2024
Weerrrrreee...back! The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - Live at DEMA 2024. This week we collected questions in the booth and pulled them out in front of an audience. Fun, interesting, informative. And did we say fun?
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Episode 100
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44:14
Unified Team Diving Podcast #99 – Advanced Rebreather Training - Ben's Talk at DEMA 2024
We are back in Las Vegas for the DEMA show – us and a gazillion other divers checking out new equipment, new training, new everything. This year, in the Technical Resource Center at the show, Ben gave a talk on advanced rebreather training, why...
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Episode 99
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23:34
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #98 – Jeff's Carcast on Setbacks and More Setbacks
Things don't always go quite as planned. Sometime the planning turns into a setback. What is the best way to deal with that? Take "no" for encouragement and take a setback for opportunity.Th...
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Episode 98
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24:36
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #97 – Jeff Carcast – Managing Your Students' Brilliance
Who is brilliant? You? Or your students? Or both? What happens when you face an instructor or a coach who is more focused on their own brilliance than yours. In this short carcast I take a look at a scenario where the brilliance got con...
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Episode 97
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20:04
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #96 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - Stump the Chumps
Another of the Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving. This time we tried something a bit different. Ben came up with the questions and did not tell Jeff what they were going to be. Tune in for an honest discussion about pockets, valve drills, ...
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Episode 96
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55:50
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #95 – Jeff Carcast – Following Some Else's Dreams
Following someone else's dreams. This is something every scuba instructor has faced. A student brings a partner, who does not want to be there, into a class, usually Open Water. As instructors, we get to see this play out, sometimes in terror, ...
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Episode 95
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25:46
Unified Team Diving Podcast #94 – UTD's Path to Leadership with Jeff and Jay
How to get there. That's today's question. What is the path to becoming a UTD instructor or dive master. How does the program work? What are our expectations of you? What do we expect your expectations to be of us. In this episode Jeff and Jay ...
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Episode 94
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54:58
Unified Team Diving Podcast #93 – Cave Week with Jeff, Ben, and Jay
It's on! Cave Week 2024! This November join us in Florida for Cave Week. In this short podcast Jeff, Ben, and Jay discuss the logistics, the fun, and all the details about this amazing UTD community event.
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Episode 93
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23:18
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #92 – Instructor Trainer Jon Edwardsen on the Success of His Recent IDC
Jon Edwardsen has been a UTD instructor almost since the beginning of UTD. He is my colleague, friend, and critic. The great thing about having Jon as an instructor trainer is his uncanny ability to cut through any and all BS and get to the hea...
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Episode 92
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27:32
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #91 – Jeff Carcast – Teaching Teaching, Not Teaching the Thing
There is much to unpack around how we run out instructor development program, how we train our instructor trainers, and how all that benefits the Unified Team Diving students and coaching clients.Back in the car, Jeff takes a look at th...
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Episode 91
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31:11
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #90 – Becoming a Thinking Diver Part 2b
This episode is a cross between our wrap up of "Becoming a Thinking Diver" and "The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving. Jeff and Ben cover:Redundant equipment.Knowing when to say when.Training for multiple fail...
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Episode 90
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54:50
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast – Ben's Training Corner – Equipment Does Not Kill You
It's not the equipment, it's the choices you make. In his inaugural training corner episode, Ben takes a look at how you can make good, or bad, choices and how those choices can have dramatic ramifications.
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Episode 89
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34:27
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #88 – Jeff Carcast – Free Has No Value
One of the great things about me and Unified Team Diving is that I get to set the company culture around money, finances, student fees, all of it. I feel very strongly that financial transparency is critical to the health of any business. I als...
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Episode 88
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26:47
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #87 – Becoming a Thinking Diver Part 2a
In our last episode about the "Thinking Diver" we talked about creating your team, or village. In this episode Jeff and Ben start to look at the practical elements of being a thinking diver – gear, gas, team, and much more. Be a thinker. Listen...
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Episode 87
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