Scuba diving

I was talking about

the chemistry, the science classes, not so much the scuba diving, but that's a pretty good analogy as well.

The science classes for me have become hugely beneficial.

And my boyfriend is a professor at the University of Tampa and he teaches biology.

I do.

Unfortunately, at the moment, I don't feel like I get enough free time to do that.

So a lot of my free time right now is spent scuba diving.

But I have in the past and would love to go back to volunteering at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

The, the way that we work at Cura is that we do, like, an initial fa- find where we're not asking every single application question, but we're asking, like, the broad question sets to try and then be able to trigger, figure out if there's anything gonna change the price so we can give the clients the idea of what that end price will be rather than just the basic price that you see on a comparison.

So I tend to say to people, "Oh, do you do anything like high-risk sports or anything?" And just so you know, they even sometimes think of things of like horse riding, you know, motorbike riding, sailing, scuba diving, anything like that because those areas are ones that I've specifically and definitely know lots of people who've been caught out by that, where people haven't told me stuff like that and all of a sudden it's like, "Oh, okay.

Right, we're in the application.

This is happening.

And it, it's, it can be a really, really big change.

So specifically looking at those ones I've just mentioned, you know, let's take a look at them.

So, you know, if it's something like a one-off scuba diving or a one-off skydive, things like that, it's very unlikely that that will affect applications for life insurance, critical illness cover, or income protection.

But it's really important to check and don't make assumptions.

Yeah.

And then you worked ground zero, went into special operations, spent most of your career with Scuba and emergency services, which is your guys' SWAT team.

Emergency service,

yeah.

How many years were you on the street before you came out? Six.

Six?

Yeah, I was on for six before I went to Scuba.

And...

So I was connecting with a few people to get friends.

Finally, I was fed up being a scuba diving instructor for two years, super saturated.

I went back home to Africa.

I went to see my mother.

Even myself, every time I was in Uganda, people say, "Can you change your religion? You're a Buddhist? That's evil." Actually, even I had Dharma books that I got in Nepal and all that.

They said, "You should burn your books." My books that I treasure a lot, they want me to burn them.

In my luggage, there were two things only: Dharma books when I was going back to Africa, and scuba diving equipment.

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Or if this podcast lasts 400 years.

We interviewed Tim Galladet about writing a memoir, scuba diving, and leading in turbulent times.

And finally, we all know scuba stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, or you do now if you didn't.

But did you also know that the light fades on a spectrum as you descend? Red is the first color to go.

So in the pandemic, I finally had some time and I ended up becoming a scuba dive master.

I worked at a dive shop in St. John, USVI, just hung out there and loaded tanks onto a boat and took people scuba diving all day long.

And I was like, huh, if theater doesn't work out, this is going to be fine, you know, but luckily, luckily.

theater has been going very very well but if you know if you don't hear from me for a bit I'm probably underwater

Both.

Both.

It depends on if I'm going scuba diving the next day.

Easy morning person.

Right.

I mean, the very first conversation with Scuba is you can't breathe underwater, so you need to bring something with you.

But eventually that's going to run out.

So this is dangerous.

But when it

does...

That is the one standardization that Scuba has agreed on all these decades.

We're going to agree on not agreeing on shit.

...

Scuba back there?

No, he was right-

... 'cause it was-

But what I was talking about-

Yeah, but then we talked it out, we fleshed it out, and everybody, everybody gets their credit.

Okay.

...

I was coming back from scuba diving in the Gulf on Saturday, which by the way, if you haven't seen the video of the megalodon tooth, uh, I was diving with, uh, with, uh, Megan, and, uh, Megan was, uh, on my boat that I was on, and, uh, she was my dive partner.

And, uh, Megan said, "Look at this." She p- we were in 60 feet of water.

We're 17 miles off of Pinellas.

I don't make up the names for stuff.

All right.

So listen, I love scuba diving.

Uh, listen, I, whe- whenever I can proselytize about scuba diving, if...