Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast

Rising Tide #32 – Ana Blanco’s Ocean Films

Join us in conversation with Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. We talk about the ocean in our living rooms and theaters, how documentaries and other media from Cousteau TV specials to this year’s Academy Award winning ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ help connect people to the ocean in both its wonder and its warnings. Join us to learn more about this unique film fest and some of Ana (and our) favorite ocean films.

Rising Tide #31 – The Scientist and the Abalone

Join us with Dr. Kristin Aquilino, head of the White Abalone breeding program at UC Davis marine lab in northern California. Find out how a deep-water marine snail almost got pan-fried to extinction and what she and others are doing to reintroduce it into the ocean. After listening read David’s story on the scientist and the mollusk in Sierra magazine https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/abalone-edge [https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/abalone-edge]

Rising Tide #30 – Getting down with Mehgan Heaney-Grier

Another Rising Tide, another amazing, salty woman. This time we’re talking with Mehgan Heaney-Grier, an early record-holding free diver who helped introduce the sport to the U.S. Her latest project is the web-series the ‘Imperfect Conservationist.’ In her long ocean career she’s also been a stunt diver for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and part of the Discovery Channel explorers team for ‘Treasure Quest – Snake Island.’ Curious to hear more? Just tune in.

Rising Tide #29 – Roz Savage’s Three Oceans

Join us in conversation with the amazing Roz Savage. Roz is the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s “Big Three” oceans: the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian. A Guinness World Record holder, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen, she talks about her motivations, challenges and what she learned about how we can all make a difference for our blue planet.

Rising Tide #28 – Writers for the Sea #2

If you missed our Writers for the Sea Authors Panel with Brian Skerry, Sylvia Earle, and Carl Safina, we’re offering the full panel discussion on this week’s podcast. Dive in with two famed scientist-authors and a renowned in-depth photographer talk about their latest books or those about to surface.