In the very first episode of The Deep-Sea Podcast we let you know who we are and why we felt the world really needed a podcast about the deep sea.

Alan rants about how the statement ‘we know more about the moon than the deep sea’ is not just a bad analogy, it’s plain wrong. Thom talks about how the quality of scientific writing is maintained and how peer-review can be tough when you are starting out. Alan also confesses why, after becoming the world’s deepest diving Brit, he looked a little hunched emerging from the sub.

Our guest this episode is Professor Monty Pried, Editors-in-Chief of the scientific journal Deep-Sea Research Part I and a legend of deep-sea research. We talk about seeing biology as ‘smelly engineering’ and spoil everyone’s fun by explaining why Megalodon isn’t hiding in the deep-sea trenches. 

We are new to podcasting, but things can only get slicker as we get the hang of this. Be sure to subscribe as we have some amazing guests coming up. On the next episode we talk to Don Walsh, one of the first people to dive to the deepest point on earth and genuinely interesting person with many good stories.