Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

I'm your host, Mason.

Today we're throwing it back about four years when we talked to Erica Bergman.

She is a submarine pilot engineer, National Geographic Explorer, and she took Sir Richard Branson and Fabian

Kestow, the grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, on a submarine adventure into

the depths of the Belize Great Blue Hole. In 2013, she received National Geographic Explorers grant for her classroom under the

sea project, which she would live stream expeditions to classrooms all over the country.

She's a great storyteller, super interesting line of work in what she does, and I really enjoyed

this conversation. So I hope you do as much as I did.

And yeah, we got to probably do an updated episode with Erica because such a cool thing in a

unique episode for our podcast. So let's go ahead and jump in. But before we do, don't forget we have

a listener survey that we're doing. we would love your feedback on the show

and what changes to make what we're going to make some changes soon so love to get your input

ahead of that so look at the show notes to submit your ideas all right let's jump in now So how did it go overall?

Yeah, it was, I mean, it was definitely, there was a big learning curve for us.

It was the first time that we've run an expedition as this particular team.

And so, you know, there's always the inevitable hurdles of working on the ocean.

And it just took every single one of them in stride, I think.

Wow.

So you guys were able to actually, for the listeners that didn't catch our first

beforehand episode, because we've gotten a lot of new listeners actually in like the last few months.

Like a lot, it's really grown, which is awesome. Could you just go over?

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