This week Dr Rex Hunter discusses his recently completed PhD ‘Understanding the gold rushes port of Melbourne through port cluster theory’; Marinara Dive Reporter Cara Hull talks about things to do when you can’t dive this winter; Mary Isles, President of the Flinders Community Association, speaks with us about a new pilot program to introduce paid parking at Flinders Pier; And, can giant squishy soft things really be as threatening as sharks’ teeth? Jeff Maynard continues 'Soundwaves Grows Tent...
Jun 11, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 269
We catch up with Elodie Camprasse from Deakin University about the annual spider crab migration into Port Phillip Bay; Myra Kelly brings us a dive report; Fam has been binge watching mermaid-related film and TV and reviews 'The Little Mermaid' and 'MerPeople', and Anth has been looking into World-Days, with World Oceans Day and World Environment Day coming up. With presenters Bron Burton, Fam Charko, and Anthony Boxshall. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/radio-marinara Faceb...
Jun 04, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 268
Marinara Dive Reporters Cara Hull and Myra Kelly geographically bookend the start of the show, calling in from Perth and the Mornington Peninsula. Cara and Myra give their respective perspectives as participants in Seadragon Search, celebrate National Volunteer Week and reflect on diving at both ends of the Great Southern Reef; We speak with artist Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger about her exhibition ‘All to Lose’, examining iconic Antarctic landscapes through a different lens. 'All to Lose' is on now ...
May 28, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 267
Tim Winton joins Bron in the studio to chat about the natural phenomenon that is Western Australia's Ningaloo Nyinggulu, Exmouth Gulf and Cape Range, and shares some frightening facts about its present vulnerability. Plus, we speak with ‘Seadragon Search’ founder Dr Nerida Wilson and Radio Marinara dive reporter Cara Hull about Seadragon Search, and how this community science program is improving our understanding of wild seadragon populations. With presenters Bron Burton and Dr Beach. Program P...
May 21, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 266
This week Rex Hunter is dressed to impress as the gang discuss re-enactment voyages; Myra Kelly brings us this week's dive report; PhD neuroecology scholar Hope Robins joins the crew to talk sharks brains over breakfast; and Dr Aaron Eger is back to talk about the economic value of kelp forests. With presenters Bron Burton, Kade Mills, and Anthony Boxshall. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/radio-marinara Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064257776864...
May 07, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 265
This week we’ll speak with ocean historian and author Dr Killian Quigley about 'Melbourne Now', and what it means to be an oceans aesthetics specialist; Myra Kelly brings us this week’s Dive report, including an update on the annual 'Crabbapalooza'; Scott Breschkin from the Nature Conservatory brings news of another restorative project in our local waterways – Golden Kelp in Port Phillip Bay – and we welcome back Michael Sams, Parks Victoria’s Manager of Marine and Coastal Science Programs. With...
Apr 30, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 264
The SS Central America sank 200 miles off the east coast of North America in 1857. It was carrying, in today’s money, approximately $800 million in gold. Rex Hunter joins the show to chat about its finding in 1988, gold recovery and the court cases that tied up the treasure for 30 years. We talk to Dr Will White from CSIRO about The Great Egg Case Hunt and what can be learnt from the shark egg cases that wash upon the shore, plus president of Marine Care Pt Cooke Andrew Christie shares his work ...
Apr 23, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 263
Join us as we jump in a hole to search for 17 million year old shark and whale fossils with our Marine Palaeontologist Ben Franciscelli; We discuss spider crabs that are already being spotted aggregating with Elodie Camprasse; We then catch up with director of the Kelp Forest Alliance Aaron Eger, to continue our discussion on how everyone can "Help the Kelp!"; Soundwaves celebrates Cephalopods. In a homage to big tentacles, Jeff Maynard will tell us about a 1950's movie set in Australia, that in...
Apr 16, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 262
We chat with Isabella Nichols about this year's Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach; Myra Kelly brings us the latest dive report and news about the upcoming Nudibranch sensis; John Lewis is in the studio to talk about Biofouling on the bottom of boats, which has nothing to do with chickens; The 4th edition of The Field Guide To The Seashores Of South Eastern Australia is here. Geoff Wescott tells us why it's a perfect addition to your car's glove box. With presenters Anthony Boxshall and Dr Beach. Progr...
Apr 02, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 261
Our Coastal Paleontologist Ben Francischelli talks sperm whales – from the ancient to the modern; We catch up with Heidi Tait from Tangaroa Blue, who has exciting news to share about their brand new Rig Recycle program; Spike the dog surfing champion has just returned from the Noosa Festival of Surfing, Spike and Rob Lorenzon are back to tell us all about the event, and their upcoming sequel to ‘Spike Surfs’ - ‘Spike Dives’. With presenters Bron Burton and Fam Charko. Program Page: https://www.r...
Mar 25, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 260
Jacqui Younger brings us ‘Keep it Clean’ detailing the incredible work done by community groups and volunteers cleaning the seas; Live from Flinders Pier, Cara Hull delivers this week’s dive report, honouring the Flinders Icebergers equinox celebrations; Rex Hunter brings a special guest, post-doctoral researcher Dr Cami Plum (Monash University), who has just completed a paper on the microbial ecology of shipwrecks; Soundwaves "Woke Bloke" Jeff Maynard will use 1950’s Movies to mansplain how wom...
Mar 18, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 259
This week we speak with Deakin University's Dr Alecia Bellgrove about the 2023 International Seaweed Symposium, and the future of seaweed research; Myra Kelly brings us this week’s dive report, including a wrap-up of last week’s legendary clean-up efforts by divers and snorkelers for Clean Up Australia Day; Professor Rob Harcourt, marine scientist from Macquarie University talks about a multinational effort to understand whale feeding behaviour; Cabin Boy asks the question - have you ever wanted...
Mar 11, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 258
The latest ocean and coastal news; Amy Low, Head of Branding and Marketing for Piping Hot, on creating new textiles from algae and the role of businesses in making change; Kal Glanznig, a young business person (MD of Delfina) and youth oceans changemaker on why (and how) young people are leading change to improve ocean health. With presenters Fam and Anth. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/radio-marinara Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064257776864...
Mar 04, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 257
The team speak with Kelp Forest Alliance founder and program director Aaron Eger about the “Kelp Forest Challenge''; Cara Hull provides a dive report; The Nature Conservancy has expanded its restoration of shellfish reefs from Port Phillip Bay to the Gippsland Lakes, and marine and freshwater scientist Scott Breschkin tells us about their latest project; Jacqui Younger explains the inaugural ‘Keep it Clean’ event, starting off with the Sea Shepherd’s Nurdle Hunt, the marine pest-watch project, a...
Feb 25, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 256
Museums Victoria Principal Curator Emeritus (Marine Biology) Gary Poore has co-written the book ‘Marine Decapod Crustacea’ - the definitive guide for all marine decapod crustacea, and he explains to presenters Bron and Dr. Beach this extraordinary work; Dive reporter Myra Kelly provides hot tips and a weekly dive forecast; 'Life’s a Beach' is back, where Dr Beach talks about crustaceans and their reflective eye glitter. And Jeff Maynard examines the history of female marine biologists using old ...
Feb 18, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 255
Rex Hunter talks about how the Yarra River was altered from a meandering stream to a river handling 20,000 tonne container ships; Dive reporter Cara Hull provides an update on summer diving; coastal paleontologist Ben Francischelli talks about the giant marsupial ‘Zygomaturus gilli’, the 500 kilogram megafauna from Bayside (Melbourne), and a fossil Ben found dating back more than 5 million years; and Cabin Boy, aka Brett Ditchfield, talks about the annual Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart. With pre...
Feb 12, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 254
Dr Beach and Anth have pulled up their stand-up paddle boards, taken off their sunnies, and entered the studio for the start of Radio Marinara 2023! Dr Beach discusses a recent study that documents a dramatic decline in fish parasites over the past century in the Puget Sound estuary, and Anth delivers marine and coastal news from the summer break. And marine ecologist and fisheries biologist Dr. Bryce Stewart from the University of York talks about Brexit and the impact on fisheries. With presen...
Feb 04, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 253
Coastal paleontologist Ben Francischelli fills us in on Summer by the Sea and a new coastal fossil site; Rex Hunter talks about surveying shipwrecks in 2023; Dr Beach joins the Port Phillip Sea Pilots on board the ‘Akuna'; Bron and special assistant Edie Walker chat about their favourite things of 2022; and it’s 'Tomorrow Never Dives,’ a farewell to James Bond and Jeff Maynard's Soundwaves History of Diving Series. With Presenters Bron, Dr Beach and Rex Hunter. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org....
Dec 10, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 252
Baykeeper Neil Blake explains recent citizen science programs happening in Victoria’s coastal and marine environments, and he tells us about Sandy Webb's hot-off-the-press book about Jawbone Marine Sanctuary https://jawbonemarinesanctuary.squarespace.com/ . Tony Fontes is a veteran Great Barrier Reef dive operator who was invited to meet the UN reef monitoring mission, and shares his ideas with our team about what we are doing about the collapse of the Reef. And Connor Clarke, Director at Plasti...
Dec 04, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 251
Rex Hunter talks about fifty years of diving the Ships Graveyard on Port Phillip Bay, and Jim Anderson, one of the original Graveyard divers from a group known as the ‘Geelong Skindivers’, explains the history of this amazing site, and some of his incredible discoveries; Author Graham Patterson discusses his latest book ''Coastal Guide to Nature & History: Western Victoria (Point Lonsdale to the South Australian Border)'; and Ben Francischelli, coastal paleontologist, presents what looks lik...
Nov 26, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 250
Allyson O’Brien from the Australian Marine Sciences Association talks about the upcoming event ‘Showcasing Victoria’s Marine Science: Spotlight on early careers researchers'; Celebrated Melbourne-based artist and curator Lisa Waup and her colleague Paul Bishop discuss the creation of ‘Seaing Country’, a public art project soon to be paragliding around the Ninch as part of the 'Front Beach Back Beach' extravaganza; Jeff Maynard continues to explain the history of diving according to Bond (James B...
Nov 19, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 249
Baykeeper Neil Blake reports on the 20th anniversary celebrations of Victoria’s Marine National Parks and Sanctuaries. Dr Tim O’Hara, Museums Victoria Research Institute’s senior curator of marine invertebrates, chats about CSIRO’s research vessel ‘The Investigator’ returning from a voyage mapping the Indian Ocean seafloor; and Dave Donnelly from Killer Whales Australia and PhD researcher Isabella Reeves discuss the genetic links between the renowned orca ‘Old Tom’ and today's killer whale popul...
Nov 12, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 248
Rex Hunter talks about Port Phillip Heads and the work of the Port Phillip Sea Pilots; Dr Kim Reid is a researcher in the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at Monash University, and explains how oceans drive our weather and our climate; and Dr Paul Carnell chats about how sea urchins and kelp interact. With presenters Dr Beach and Anth. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/radio-marinara Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064257776864...
Nov 06, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 247
Cabin Boy recounts the tale of the ‘Edwina May’, a Ghost Ship that you may have seen from the South Gippsland Highway. Then, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and Deakin University's Public Art Commission present Front Beach Back Beach (FBBB) – a massive public art project that celebrates the 'Ninch' in all its glory. The team chat to Danny Lacy, Co-Director of FBBB and Director of Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery about the project’s origins, and then to artists Lisa Waup and Katie Lee, who ...
Oct 29, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 246
Presenters Bron and Dr Beach talk to coastal paleontologist Ben Francischelli about Naarm’s very own giant seabird dinosaurs known as ‘pelagornithids’, the largest flying bird that ever existed; Dr Nigel Bradly, CEO of Envirostrat, NZ, explains an exciting development in a huge aquaculture start-up program that not only regenerates algae in the waters off the Coromandel peninsula, but has all the hallmarks of a huge new sustainable seaweed industry; and Dr Beach reports on a new insight into wat...
Oct 23, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 245
Presenters Bron and Fam catch up with Matt Crawley and Suzanne Hudgell from the Bellarine Catchment Network about the launch of an exciting new Coastcare group on the Bellarine Peninsula; Caitlyn O’Dea, Master’s student at Edith Cowan University, talks about the seagrasses of seven WA estuaries that are part of the Healthy Estuaries WA program, a WA State Government initiative; and Melbourne cabaret artist Amanda Buckley chats about her faaaabulous one-woman show called ‘Ethel Mermaid - Songs in...
Oct 16, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 244
Presenters Bron, Anth and Kade chat to Dave Donnelly about killer whales and recent mass strandings; Kade asks... What do we know about our Marine National Parks? Sure, they were created 20 years ago to protect representative areas of Victoria’s unique and diverse marine environments. But have they worked? And what have we learnt from marine protection in Victoria? Parks Victoria’s Marine & Coastal Science Manager Dr Michael Sams answers these questions and shares some of the awesome researc...
Oct 09, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 243
Baykeeper Neil Blake talks about his brilliant new penguin-proof plant guards that support the nests of the resident penguins from the St Kilda penguin colony; the brilliant work of Brighton Sea Scouts, plus some coastal planting Neil is leading at Middle Park dunes. Then, Nicole Mertens from Victorian National Parks Association discusses the 14th Sea Slug Census, which has just started; and Dr Beach explains the cetacean retia mirabilia, or wondrous network, which researchers now believe protec...
Oct 02, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 242
Michael Brady (not the Up There Cazaly one!), Maritime researcher and illustrator joins Cabin Boy, Jeff and Kade to talk about his business Oceanliner Designs and the work that goes into creating large scale, detailed drawings of famous ships from history. Then the team talk to Sue Crowe, the convener responsible for bringing the OZTek Advanced Diving Conference & OZDive Show to Melbourne. The conference has over 50 presenters highlighting the adventure and excitement of diving and the techn...
Sep 25, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 241
The Beach is back! Fresh from his summering in Europe, Dr Beach joins Bron and Rex for this week’s Marinara to talk about the value of decomposing whales, new tech for deep dives, the transforming power of dolphins and the beginning of the 2022 whale migration season. Rex brings us the latest techniques for diving deep wrecks using mixed gases and re-breathers. This is the new cutting edge of diving, enabling divers to dive wrecks off the coast of Australia. The 2022 east coast whale migration s...
Sep 18, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 240
