UTD Scuba Diving Podcast
Education & Explainer
About
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
- #115, The Path to Completion, what to do after training and many tangents with a special guest.
In episode 115 of the UTD Scuba Diving Podcast, host Jeff discusses the 'Path to Completion' document with a guest. The conversation includes tangents and deviates from the main topic occasionally.
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #114 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Neil Egerton
This episode introduces Neil Egerton, a UTD instructor from Ireland. Egerton has been focused on developing a community of divers who engage in critical thinking within his local area.
- #113, Ben and Jiri discuss Diving computers, and why they are....
In episode #113 of the UTD Scuba Diving Podcast, host Ben is joined by instructor Jiri Pokorny to discuss dive computers. They cover the advantages and disadvantages of dive computers, as well as transmitters and algorithms.
- #112, Ben talks to Arne Sieber on Solid State O2 cell at DEMA 2025
In episode #112 of the UTD Scuba Diving Podcast, Ben interviews Arne Sieber about Solid State Oxygen Cells, or Optical Oxygen Analyzing Cells, as discussed at DEMA 2025. The episode is noted as interesting for scuba and CCR enthusiasts.
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #111 - The ingredients of a good diver. Do you have what it takes?
In UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #111, hosts Ben Bos and James Mott explore the essential qualities of a good diver. They also examine how the UTD 10 covenants serve as a guide for self-improvement as a diver. Indexed from public RSS feeds.
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #110 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Greg Wolff
Send us Fan Mail 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 h…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #109 – Jeff Carcast – The Bigger the Blob the Better the Job
Send us Fan Mail 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 th…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #108 – Jeff Carcast – UTD's History and Me
Send us Fan Mail 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 D…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #107 – Jeff Passes the Torch to Ben and Jay
Send us Fan Mail 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 p…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #106 – Jeff's Carcast - Comparing Yourself to Others
Send us Fan Mail 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 tr…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #105, Ben's Training Corner: Are you on the peak of Mount Stupid?
Send us Fan Mail 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.…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #104 – Meet the UTD Instructors - Rene Krikke
Send us Fan Mail 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 i…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #103 – Jeff's Carcast - The Big Scuba Lie
Send us Fan Mail 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 log…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #102 - Jeff's Carcast – How Do You Stay Motivated?
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #101 – Ben's Training Corner - Dive Beautifully
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #100 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - DEMA 2024
Send us Fan Mail 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 f…
- Unified Team Diving Podcast #99 – Advanced Rebreather Training - Ben's Talk at DEMA 2024
Send us Fan Mail 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 re…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #98 – Jeff's Carcast on Setbacks and More Setbacks
Send us Fan Mail 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. Thoughts or comments? Let me know…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #97 – Jeff Carcast – Managing Your Students' Brilliance
Send us Fan Mail 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 bril…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #96 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - Stump the Chumps
Send us Fan Mail 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 p…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #95 – Jeff Carcast – Following Some Else's Dreams
Send us Fan Mail 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,…
- Unified Team Diving Podcast #94 – UTD's Path to Leadership with Jeff and Jay
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Unified Team Diving Podcast #93 – Cave Week with Jeff, Ben, and Jay
Send us Fan Mail 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. For more informa…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #92 – Instructor Trainer Jon Edwardsen on the Success of His Recent IDC
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #91 – Jeff Carcast – Teaching Teaching, Not Teaching the Thing
Send us Fan Mail 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 tak…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #90 – Becoming a Thinking Diver Part 2b
Send us Fan Mail 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 failures…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast – Ben's Training Corner – Equipment Does Not Kill You
Send us Fan Mail 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. For more inform…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #88 – Jeff Carcast – Free Has No Value
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #87 – Becoming a Thinking Diver Part 2a
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Unified Team Diving Podcast #86 – Jeff's Carcast – Why I Am Still So Stoked About UTD
Send us Fan Mail A non-car carcast. This time I woke up ready to talk about why Unified Team Diving is so important to me but I did not have any place I needed to drive, so I recorded a non-car carcast. Why do we keep doing what we do? How…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #85 – It Takes a Village – The Thinking Diver Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Learning and advancing at anything does not need to be something you do alone. Really, it takes a village. You are at the center, then your instructor or coach, but then all the other people and organizations and facilitie…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #84 – Jeff's Carcast – We Are Not for Everyone
Send us Fan Mail In any business one of the most important things is knowing who your clients are. And equally important is to know who your clients are not. In this carcast, I take an honest look at who we are for and who we are not for.…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #83 – Jeff's Carcast on Style vs. Success
Send us Fan Mail Is it success that's the most important thing in scuba diving? Or style? This is a discussion – actually a monologue I recorded in my car – on the issue of style vs. success or, in scuba diving, style vs. certification. Dr…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #82 – Are You Solo Diving as an Instructor?
Send us Fan Mail We are Unified TEAM Diving not, as we sometimes like to say, Unified 'Go-Run-Off-By-Yourself Diving.' But what about when you are instructing students? Are they part of your team? Can they help you? What are everyone's exp…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #81 – Jeff's Carcast on Managing the Frustration of Setbacks
Send us Fan Mail Setback happen. This is true for everything we are learning, particularly when moving to a higher level in any field. In scuba training, in Unified Team Diving, we have a thing called the "ebay dive." This is when you come…
- UTD Podcast #80 – Jeff's Carcast on Fulfilling Unfulfilled Dreams
Send us Fan Mail In the late 70's or early 80's I had an opportunity to take on something that looked really cool to me but my situation at the time blocked it. I've kept that dream alive until this past weekend when I fulfilled an unfulfi…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #79 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - Live at DEMA 2023
Send us Fan Mail We are live at the DEMA show in New Orleans taking questions from the audience. Listen to Jeff and Ben answer all sorts of random questions and, finally, almost get completely stumped. Contact us with your obscure question…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #78 – Introducing UTD's new Director of Development Jay Gardner
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Jay Gardner, UTD's new Director of Development! Jay joins Jeff and Ben as the third member of UTD's management team, bring a lifetime of experience with companies both large and small. Jay started his journey in…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #77 – Jeff Carcast on Quitting Part 2 – When It's Okay to Quit
Send us Fan Mail This is a short addendum to my previous carcast on quitting. In this quick episode I add a little info, this time about when it's okay to quit. There is a time and place for everything and sometimes the best thing is to "k…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #76 – Jeff's Carcast on Quitting
Send us Fan Mail "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run." Great words to live by. In this carcast, actually recorded as a "hikecast" during this year's solar eclipse, Jeff looks at some of t…
- UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #75 – Everything Rebreathers Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Let's breathe without bubbles. In this episode, the first or two or three, Jeff and Ben look at all things rebreathers. In this first part: the what, why, how and the joys of diving rebreathers. In future episodes we will…
- UTD Podcast #74 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving Vol. 15 – The Tech Student Episode
Send us Fan Mail A live episode with slightly sketchy audio, although it was a technical marvel. Ben and three of his tech students in Norway, Jeff via cell phone from San Diego. In this episode we take live questions from the students who…
- UTD Podcast #73 – Jeff's Carcast on Compliance and Consistency
Send us Fan Mail Consistency and compliance. Or is it compliance and consistency? Either way, these are the two hallmarks of a great client relationship with their coach and coaching program. In this carcast, Jeff takes a look at how consi…
- UTD Podcast #72 – Jeff and Ben on the August 2023 San Diego Classes
Send us Fan Mail Following two weeks of UTD classes in San Diego, and a few minutes before Ben heads back to the airport to return to Denmark, we chat about how this series of classes went for both the instructors and the students. Also ch…
- UTD Podcast #71 – Lisa Huynh on Coaching and Essentials
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Jeff sits with UTD Scuba Coaching client Lisa Huynh the day after she completed UTD Essentials of Rec. Lisa explores how she got her start with coaching, the benefits of integrating UTD's in-water training…
- UTD Podcast #70 – Getting Started with Rebreathers
Send us Fan Mail The rebreather. Is it a wildly complex thing that rivals something that could fly to the moon? Or is it simply a bag you breathe into that scrubs out the CO2 and allows for longer bottom times? Or something in the middle?…
- UTD Podcast #69 – Jeff's Carcast on How to Get Really, Really Good at Something
Send us Fan Mail Your "Path to Mastery" is a buzzword (or buzz-phrase) that's been around forever but, what does it really mean and how can you take your path to becoming great at one thing and apply it to becoming great at something else…
- UTD Podcast #68 – UTD's ISO Certification
Send us Fan Mail In April this year UTD went through an audit with EUF, the European Underwater Federation and received certification that the UTD training systems are in compliance with ISO standards. ISO, the International Organization f…
- UTD Podcast #67 ESPAÑOL – Entrevista a los candidatos a Instructores en el tercer día de IDC
Send us Fan Mail Estamos en el tercer día del curso de desarrollo de instructores de UTD. En este podcast cortito realizamos una pequeña entrevista a los candidatos a instructores para saber cuáles son sus percepciones del curso hasta el m…
- UTD Podcast #66 – Spain IDC – The English-Speaking Candidates
Send us Fan Mail Just a few minutes after the UTD Instructor Development Course ended at the Rivemar Dive Center in La Azohia, Spain, Jeff and Ben sat down with the four English-speaking instructor candidates to get their take on the week.…