Face to Face with Jeff Goodman: Mia DaPonte (Watch Video)

Published 2 hours agoon May 7, 2026

In this exclusive video for Scubaverse.com, Jeff Goodman sits down with rising young diver and ocean advocate Mia Daponte.

Mia became a PADI Master Scuba Diver at the earliest opportunity, and since then, she’s combined her passion for diving with conservation work and storytelling beneath the waves. As a contributing writer for Scubaverse, she shares her underwater adventures through both words and photography—aiming to inspire the next generation of divers.

Named a 2025 PADI Junior AmbassaDiver, Mia is already making a serious impact in the diving world—and she’s only just getting started.

You can find Mia’s Scubaverse blogs here.

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.