Radio Marinara Triple R Podcasts

The team are joined by Cara Hull, who is currently on location at the Bass Coast on the Great Southern Reef. She has gone in search of short-finned eels, which acts as the impetus for an entertaining discussion regarding their patterns of movements and places of habitat – surprising the hosts to find out that you can find eels as close to home as the sewers of St Kilda. Next, the team speak to photographic artist Fiona Basile. Fiona provides living proof that good things come in 3’s: as she discusses the ‘immersion experience’, followed by her latest book ‘immerse’, and her exhibition at the upcoming Southside Festival. She talks alongside Freya McFarlane, the producer of the Frankston Arts Centre to talk furthermore about Southside Festival, which takes place on May 10th. They also talk to Jeff Manard, who tickles his indulgence in marine based movies by analysing the worst underwater films of all time: this week’s film posing him to ask the question – “How did we ever get to the top of the food chain”? Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/radio-marinara Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Radio-Marinara/100064257776864/

In this week's episode the team dive into ocean related topics, where Dr Elodie Camprasse joins once again to inform listerns about the spider crabs, and Richard Pensak from Earth Care St Kilda sheds light on sea stars. Dr Alessandro Toffoli also fills the team in about what's happening with the rouge waves in Vistoria and artist Anatol Pitt discusses mollusks which is the focus point of their exhibition 'All these eyes were mine' at Incinerator Gallery.

This week the team speak to Dr Vanessa Pirotta, a self-declared ‘whale addict’ and author of 'Humpback Highway'. Vanessa talks about her initial attraction to whales at a young age, leading to an indepth study of them during her PHD. What started as a fascination for those mysterious animal she had only ever "seen or heard of in children's books" grows into a career where she has gotten to swim alongside them; and get involved with the nitty-gritty of collecting samples from their snot and exrement to better understand marine-life as a whole. The extraordinary fun - and not so fun - facts of these cetaceans are teased during her conversation, including the direct and indirect ways humans are having an insidious effect on whales, and all sea life. This can all be further explored in her most recent novel 'Humpback Highway'. Unfortunately Josh Kirkman, CEO 'Surfers for Climate' was unable to join the team this week. We hope to have him join us soon to talk about how 'Surfers for Climate' have been honing in on the surf community, in order to try and spread awareness of the different types of human activities causing climate change. Program Page: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/radio-marinara Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Radio-Marinara/100064257776864/

Dr Beach and Dr Surf are joined by shaper of DMS Surfboards Dillion Milenkovich and Deakin University researcher Brady Hamilton. Milenkovich discusses his mobile surf museum and his podcast called ‘Salt of the Peninsula’. Hamilton explains his nationwide citizen science project called Pesticide Watch, which is aimed at engaging the public to monitor pesticides in our waterways.

Bron and Rachel are joined by Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake, marine scientist Kade Mills and coastal palaeontologist Ben Francischelli. Blake provides information on the predicted sea level rises due to climate change and their implications for our local beaches. Mills details his explorations in San Remo and the discoveries of a type of sea slug called the nudibranch. Francischelli discusses his curation of a fossil exhibition called ‘Prehistoric Bayside,’ which will be taking place in Brighton next June.

This week, Bron and Fam talk to Scott Breschkin from The Nature Conservancy to give an update on their big "Multi-habitat Seascape Restoration" plan. Dr. Elodie Camprasse from Deakin University also joined the team to discuss about the out of season appearance of Spider Crabs in the bay. The team also discuss about the new award-winning film The Road to Patagonia with its director Matty Hannon, and Jeff Maynard to rank more terrible marine movies as part of his segment.