Ep. 704: Exploring an Underwater Airplane Graveyard - Revisited - Brandi Mueller
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired January 7, 2019
Today’s guest, Brandi Mueller, is an avid diver and underwater photographer. She’s dived in over 30 countries and works as an instructor for much of the year. Her passion for diving is infectious and her expertise has been featured in dozens of publications all over the world.
Recently, she co-authored a book about her experience diving to see an underwater airplane graveyard where 150 American airplanes were dumped at the end of WWII in the lagoon of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. The haunting pile of flightless planes were surprisingly photogenic and getting the location was half the adventure. Enjoy!
The book, now available:
The Airplane Graveyard: The Forgotten WWII Warbirds of Kwajalein Atoll
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| 0:00.0 | I feel that people only care about things that they know and understand. |
| 0:03.9 | So if I can take people diving and I can make them love diving, |
| 0:07.4 | hopefully maybe that will have some sort of an impact that will make them change, |
| 0:11.3 | their personal habits that are maybe more environmentally friendly |
| 0:13.9 | so we can help protect the ocean and the entire Earth environment overall. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you. earth environment overall. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. We'll keep it short and sweet today. This is a throwback from a couple years ago when we're talking to Brandy Mueller about literally exploring the spot in the Marshall Islands where 150 World War II planes were just dumped into the ocean. |
| 0:56.3 | And very few people get to dive here. |
| 0:58.7 | And Brandy got, you know, was lucky enough to go dive here and explore these planes in kind of |
| 1:05.3 | the environments that have grown around them, kind of how they've deteriorated down there |
| 1:09.9 | or how they haven't in a lot of ways but a really |
| 1:13.0 | unique opportunity and definitely a unique episode for us so uh brandy's awesome great conversation |
| 1:18.7 | this was one of my early early episodes so uh yeah i i feel like i'm better now so i'm listening |
| 1:25.7 | to it a little bit and thinking oh man i'm glad I've done a little bit better at times. Maybe not. |
| 1:31.2 | But anyway, hope you enjoy and continue sharing the show, leaving reviews, telling folks about it and sending messages to us. |
| 1:40.9 | All of that is appreciated. Thank you so much. Enjoy the episode. |
| 2:00.4 | So where are you coming from today? Well, I'm currently in Wisconsin, which is where my parents live, so I just had Thanksgiving |
| 2:02.1 | with them. |
| 2:02.6 | But I take off tomorrow to go to Indonesia for six weeks, so just here briefly before I go |
| 2:08.0 | back to diving. |
| 2:09.4 | Tomorrow? |
| 2:10.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:11.0 | That is awesome. |
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