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The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast

Jeff Cinciripino

Creating a new generation of ocean stewards.

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32. Wrapping up 2025 and Plans for the Future

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast ·

2025/12/18

We are only a few days from wrapping up 2025 and while we are making plans for the new year, it is always worth taking a look back at a very busy and productive year.January started with a new administration in the U.S. – stewardship for the planet came under attack. We however continued on with our mission. In January we announced our 2025 Ocean Steward Scholarships for both open water and advanced open water training. In March we headed to the Boston Sea Rovers Show in Danvers, MA. By May

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32. We Don’t Need to Expand Offshore Drilling

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast ·

2025/12/04

The US Department of Interior recently issued an order that significantly looks to expand oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of Alaska and California.This expansion covers 1.27 billion acres of ocean. Additionally, the Interior Department plans to sell more leases in 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico on December 10, 2025. A lawsuit has been filed to stop this sale stating that it violates the National Environmental Protection Act. We need to protect the ocean, and

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30. Let’s Recap DEMA Show 2025

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2025/11/20

This year the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) Show took place in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center - November 11 - 14, 2025.The show continues to demonstrate that the dive industry is vibrant, alive and energized. Attendance at the show is back to pre-pandemic levels with a record number of qualified buyers in attendance. Business is getting done at the DEMA Show. Listen for my recap on all of the activities.

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29. Let’s Dive into Lembeh and the Philippines

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2025/11/05

We just returned from a three-week trip of scuba diving in Lembeh (Indonesia) and the Philippines. This is an incredible adventure with world-class diving in the heart of the coral triangle.Check out the travel, resorts and diving in this part of the world.

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28. Can REUSE be a solution to plastic pollution?

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2025/10/09

Plastic pollution is yet another critical peril impacting the oceans around the world. To solve this problem it is going to take a concentrated effort to implement solutions that stop the production of more plastic, improve recycling and disposal efforts and implement solutions that allow for reuse of items to replace the single-use plastic items that are so prolific.Recently, Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon introduced a bill - REUSE Act of 2025. REUSE stands for Research for Environmental Use

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27. Is Climate Change Really a Con Job? I Think Not!

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2025/09/25

Recently, President Trump addressed the United Nations where he told the world that climate change is a greatest con job. He also said that this was being predicted by stupid people. I disagree.There is detailed scientific data that paints the picture that the planet's climate is changing. Recently the American Meteorological Society released their State of the Climate 2024 and provides the evidence that the world is heating up. The report tells us that the oceans are getting warmer and records

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26. Let’s Talk About Plastic, Power and Profit

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2025/09/11

The Plastic Pollution Coalition reported some disappointing results from the UN's Intergovernmental Negotiating Committees recent meeting in Geneva - August 5 to 15, 2025. The meetings were riddled with distraction and delay tactics from the fossil fuel industry and plastic friendly countries. How big are the lobbying efforts. Greenpeace's report - Plastic, Profit and Power - How petrochemical companies are derailing the global plastic treaty outlines just how this is happening.Dow, ExxonMobil,

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25. What if we had a sustainable ocean economy?

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast ·

2025/08/28

In this episode I take a look at a blue paper published by the Ocean Panel on the impacts to the worldwide workforce if we take action and create a sustainable ocean economy versus not doing anything to help preserve the ocean.Currently, the worldwide workforce tied to the ocean economy is about 133 million. If we pursue sustainable practices that number could rise by 51 million more workers by 2050. If we do nothing they estimate that the number will drop by 40 million. A sustainable ocean

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24. Rewriting our National Climate Assessment!

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2025/08/14

The US Energy Secretary recently announced that they are reassessing, or essentially rewriting the 2023 congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment (NCA) report.Apparently, the assessment isn't inline with the current administrations thinking regardless of the scientific data backing the assessment. The Department of Energy has taken down the website hosting the NCA. While the Energy Secretary wants to unleash American energy dominance, it appears that this primarily means through fossil

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23. What’s up with Shark Week and What’s Going on at...

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2025/07/31

Shark Week 2025 featured a new show "Dancing with Sharks"Now this show is billed as an underwater dance competition between experienced scuba divers and their shark partners. They performed moves like Hammerhead Hoedown and Tiger Trot. Has Shark Week jumped the shark? The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing to remove the "endangerment finding" for pollutants resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. By removing this status, regulations under the Clean Air Act would essentially be

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22. The Future of Diving

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2025/07/17

The future of scuba diving is not with our current generation of scuba divers; the future of diving is with the next generation of scuba divers - specifically the Gen Z, Millennials and younger generations. They could be ready to become the future but is the diving industry ready for them. There are challenges includingAccess Exposure Affordability Breaking down the financial barriers is needed to overcome the high entry cost. Once certified, how do we keep this new generation of divers

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21. Becoming a Dive Pirate

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2025/07/03

The Dive Pirates Foundation is an organization dedicated to enabling individuals with physical disabilities enjoy the underwater world through scuba diving. Their motto is "We no longer see disabilities, we see possibilities".Each year, Dive Pirates runs a dive trip for adaptive divers, their buddies and volunteers. This year, I decided to volunteer, observe, learn and be part of the team. While on the trip, I was able to complete my training and certification as an SDI Scubility Adaptive Dive

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20. Let’s talk about the “State of the Oceans”

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2025/06/19

The State of the Oceans report from Statisa and the German Ocean foundation gives us an overview of how they see the current state of the oceans around the world.This report discusses how the oceans are critical for an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable future. However, the impacts of climate change and pollution are seriously impacting the state of the ocean. In 2015 global leaders agreed to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for protecting the planet. SDG 14 focused on life

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19. A Return to Key Largo

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2025/06/05

Another of my favorite spots to get in some scuba diving is Key Largo. I finally returned after five years. The last time I made it to the Keys was 2019 before the pandemic. It was also an opportunity to find my blue mind again after being out of the water for over 200 days.We stayed at The Courtyard Key Largo at mile marker 100 and did two days of diving with Horizon Divers. We chose the two-tank shallow dives. Our dive sites included City of Washington Wreck Hanna M. Bell Wreck North,

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18. Plastic Foam Needs To Go!

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2025/05/15

Oceana recently released a report - Plastic Foam Needs 'To Go'Plastic foam is one type of polystyrene that is incredibly harmful to the environment and human health. Most US registered voters agree and 78% support policies that reduce single-use plastic foam. More than 8 million metric tons of plastic foam is produced globally each year and plastic foam fragments are among the 10 most littered items found across the US. Unfortunately only 1% or less of plastic foam is recycled each year

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17. What is happening at NOAA?

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast ·

2025/05/01

Like many federal - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is being drastically impacted by efforts to shrink government. And this effort not only seriously undermines the mission of the agency but also we are seeing the political impacts and assault on the environment.Let's take a look at how these layoffs are causing issues across the various mission areas of NOAA. We will also discuss how today's political environment is toxic to the natural

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16. The Assault on Our Oceans from Within

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2025/04/17

Our oceans are under assault.From the US withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the number of executive orders issued by President Trump we are seeing an all out pummeling of initiatives designed to protect the environment and the oceans. On April 8, 2025 an executive order was signed to reinvigorate America's beautiful clean coal industry. Another executive order looks to sunset environmental regulations. There is also a presidential memorandum targeting regulation related to the environment. As

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15. Beneath the Sea Dive Show Recap

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2025/04/03

I recently attended one day of the Beneath the Sea Scuba Ocean Exposition, Dive and Travel Show.This was their 46th show that was started by Zig and JoAnn Zigahn back in 1976. The show made its come back from the pandemic in 2023. The show ran March 28 - 30, 2025 and featured seminars, conferences, dinners, receptions and of course the main exhibition hall. I had a chance to touch base with a number of folks and find some new travel

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14. The Boston Sea Rovers Show 2025 Recap

The Scuba Educational Alliance Ocean Podcast ·

2025/03/20

The Boston Sea Rovers 71st International Ocean Symposium and Film Festival kicked off the Northeast dive season with a fantastic show March 15 and 16. As one of the worlds longest continuously running scuba diving shows, the 2025 edition lived up to its mission of Raising the Level of Knowledge of the Underwater World. The two-day event featured 39 daytime seminars with unique themes covering wrecks and maritime history, marine science and technology, photography and videography, dive travel and

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13. My Top Three Dive Destinations and Resorts

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2025/03/06

As scuba divers we love adventure and exploring dive destinations around the world.When I consider a dive destination and resort some of my criteria include: Warm water Great diving All-inclusive On premises dive shop Ease of getting to the destination Here are my top three dive destinations and resorts Atlantis Dive Resorts - Dumaguete in the Philippines Sea of Cortez aboard Mexico Liveaboards All three Cayman Islands - Clearly Cayman Resorts (Little Cayman, Cayman Brac),

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