Dear Dirty Dozen Team Member,
Season 1 of Coming Clean with the Dirty Dozen has finished, but it’s not over as we have already planned Season 2 and we will return with a big splash soon TBA.
We have drawn so much inspiration from each guest and hope that we have filled your corona lockdown with adventures that resonate with you too. We thought we could share some season highlights from these awesome explorers
Episode 1. Jill Heinerth: Bent, An Honest Conversation
“I thought I had ants in my drysuit, like something was biting my thighs.”
Episode 2. Matt Jevon: How I Recovered From COVID-19
“It sounds a small thing but being able to get up and walk to the other side of the room after three weeks has been a great achievement”
Episode 3. Mark Powell: Latest Thoughts on Deco Theory
“In short decompression theory is looking at a culmination of what occurs in the body compared with some theories and some practical algorithms that make it possible to do dives without getting bent. The really long answer takes about three weeks.
“It got to the point where I felt there was nothing out there that really spoke to me as a diver. Rather naively, we thought maybe we could come up with products that divers value and most importantly improves their diving.”
Episode 5. Richie Kohler: 40 Years of Shipwreck Diving
“It’s going to get even better, as time goes by there are incredible opportunities to go even further. You have to be in it, you have to be diving and you have to look as you are never going to find new horizons if you don’t leave the shore.”
Episode 6. Stephan Whelan & Mark Evans: Behind The News: 25 years in Dive Media
“The most important thing I have learnt is that you have to keep things fresh and you have to keep moving.”
Episode 7. SJ Alice Bennett: Capturing Shadows Underground
“Caves are magical and unique. There is so much variety it’s hard not to capture a good shot.”
Episode 8. Nick Hollis: Born Into Diving
“If we can make someone’s diving experience with a good product that is what excites us.”
Episode 9. Kirk Krack: Technical Diving in Hollywood
“I had to train the actors so the breath hold was in the background and they could still act, anyone who works in the water knows its three times as hard.”
Episode 10. Gabriel Pineda: Shearwater And The Real-Time Decompression Revolution
“It’s the tools that the real explorers at the vanguard of exploration are using, it’s the real thing.”
Episode 11. Kevin Gurr: Innovating From The Bottom Up
“In those days all the training was held in Tom’s house. You’d rock up, fight your way through the rottweilers, sit around chat about diving a bit. Someone would say- oh I’ve been doing this, and we’d say – oh you’re still alive that’s really cool, and we’d build on that.”
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Aron Arngrimsson with his #CCDD mascot, the Divesoft duck and team Geoff Creighton and Victoria Brown.
So, thats that then. I guess I realized my closet dream of pretending to be a chat show host! Thank you Geoff Creighton and GWC Media for the incredible tec, F1 will seem easy to go back to after looking after your favorite #CCDD donkeys! And Victoria Brown our Producer and Content Creator. Yalla team, season 2 isn’t going to write itself.
Add us on your socials now, FB or IG, so we can still be over your airways because if you feel lonely, we are still here to chat Dirty.
Love,
Aron and the DDE Team