BLUE EARTH – Future Frogmen Podcast Series – Where Diving Can Take You: The Career Of A Diving Doctor

Published 6 years agoon November 11, 2020

A series of conservation educational podcasts from Future Frogmen, introduced by Jeff Goodman.

Where Diving Can Take You: The Career Of A Diving Doctor.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Dr. Nicholas Bird.

Nick takes us inside the intriguing world of hyperbaric medicine. Essentially born for the treatment of divers’ decompression sickness, today it goes way beyond diving, to treating diabetes, wounds and other ailments.

Nick looks at life through a thoughtful lens. His career includes med school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, being a Major in the U.S. Air Force during Operation Iraqi Freedom and deputy commander of the hyperbaric and wound care center at Travis AFB, and CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Divers Alert Network.

Richard E Hyman Bio

Richard is the Chairman and President of Future Frogmen.

Born from mentoring and love of the ocean, Richard is developing an impactful non-profit organization. His memoir, FROGMEN, details expeditions aboard Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s famed ship Calypso.

Future Frogmen, Inc. is a nonprofit organization and public charity that works to improve ocean health by deepening the connection between people and nature. They foster ocean ambassadors and future leaders to protect the ocean by accomplishing five objectives.

You can find more episodes and information at www.futurefrogmen.org and on most social platforms @futurefrogmen.

Jeff Goodman

Jeff is a multiple award winning, freelance TV cameraman/film maker and author. Having made both terrestrial and marine films, it is the world's oceans and their conservation that hold his passion with over 10.000 dives in his career. Having filmed for international television companies around the world and author of two books on underwater filming, Jeff is Author/Programme Specialist for the 'Underwater Action Camera' course for the RAID training agency. Jeff has experienced the rapid advances in technology for diving as well as camera equipment and has also experienced much of our planet’s marine life, witnessing, first hand, many of the changes that have occurred to the wildlife and environment during that time. Jeff runs bespoke underwater video and editing workshops for the complete beginner up to the budding professional.