Ep. 427: Submarine Diving the Great Blue Hole of Belize with NatGeo Explorer, Erika Bergman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Erika Bergman is a submarine pilot, engineer, and a National Geographic Explorer who will be taking Sir Richard Branson and Fabien Cousteau (grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau) on a submarine adventure into the depth of Belize's Great Blue Hole. In 2013 she received a National Geographic Explorers grant for her "Classrooms Under the Sea" expedition which live-streamed submarine expeditions to classrooms. She's a superb storyteller with many interesting tales and accomplishments to share!
She is also the Founder of GEECs - Global Engineering & Exploration Counselors; providing a network of thrilling engineering camps to girls around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Because it was an enormous cave, it's full of something that you can only find in a cave. |
| 0:15.2 | It's full of stalactites and stalagmite. |
| 0:18.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, everybody. Mason here. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, every once in a while we get to interview somebody doing something really unique. |
| 0:40.3 | Not that everyone's story isn't unique, but, you know, we get a lot of people doing biking |
| 0:47.3 | stuff, running stuff, hiking, stuff like that. But every once in a while we get someone doing |
| 0:51.9 | something really kind of once in a lifetime |
| 0:55.1 | one-of-a-kind type people and today's episode is like that so we really hope you enjoy but before |
| 1:02.8 | we get started I wanted to remind you that if you would like to become a patron of the show you |
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| 1:12.1 | five bucks a month, or for however much, you know, we're not going to limit it by any means. |
| 1:18.0 | But we want you to know that it really means a lot to us, and we really thank you for the |
| 1:23.1 | support of the show. |
| 1:23.9 | We work really hard on this and want to continue to. |
| 1:26.5 | Life Outside the Box episodes are now |
| 1:28.4 | free, but there will be patron-only material, and you just have the satisfaction of knowing you're |
| 1:33.8 | making this thing happen. So thank you. Now let's get back to this awesome episode. |
| 1:43.8 | Hey friends, Kurt here. |
| 1:45.1 | We've got a fun show today. |
| 1:46.5 | I have Erica Bergman on the line, |
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