Adventures Less Traveled John Schwenck

Edd Sorenson gives his take on the balance between the order of having rigid training and fundamentals and the chaos of exploring the unknown.

GUEST LINKS
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edd_Sorenson
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaveAdventurers
- Cave Adventurers Website: https://www.caveadventurers.com/
- Cave Adventurers Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/divecaveadventurers/
- Cave Adventurers Training: https://www.caveadventurerstraining.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eddsorenson/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edd.sorenson/


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Oftentimes cave diving doesn't go as planned, and when it doesn't, the most likely outcome is a slow inevitable death. Wedged between narrow gaps in caves with no means of escaping, divers become trapped and typically die by hypocapnia as a result. Of the individuals who are found and returned to the surface, almost none of them come out alive (body rescue). The overwhelming majority of them end up in a body bag (body recovery).



Edd Sorenson is known to be the only person with more than one body rescue in the world… he has six. So if there is any chance of survival, there is not a more equipped and more experienced individual to return these trapped divers back to their families - dead or alive.



Edd is a cave diving instructor examiner and body rescue & recovery specialist based out of Marianna, Florida. He is the founder of Cave Adventurers, a cave diving training and exploration company, and is known for his expertise in body rescue and recovery during rescue missions to bring back individuals who get stuck inside underwater caves. Edd discusses his track record, how he got involved, differences between cave diving vs open water diving, what the allure of cave diving is, how he compartmentalizes death, and one particular experience of having to break a body apart to get it to the surface.



GUEST LINKS

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edd_Sorenson

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaveAdventurers

- Cave Adventurers Website: https://www.caveadventurers.com/

- Cave Adventurers Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/divecaveadventurers/

- Cave Adventurers Training: https://www.caveadventurerstraining.com/

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eddsorenson/

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edd.sorenson/



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- Podcast Website: https://adventures-less-traveled.com

- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LpB7vI

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-less-traveled/id1681357393



OUTLINE

(00:00) - Introduction

(02:55) - Cave Adventurers

(05:50) - Differentiating dive types

(10:30) - The allure of cave diving & Edd's background

(16:05) - The IUCRR & responding to an emergency

(23:05) - # of body rescues vs # of body recoveries

(29:05) - Compartmentalizing death & breaking a body out of a restriction



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More people have been to outer space than to the underwater caves that Jill Heinerth has explored. She is world-renowned cave diver credited with exploration of both the deepest and longest caves in the world, the first ever descent of iceberg caves in Antarctica, and helped create the first ever 3-D map of an underwater cave.



She has documented her discoveries through various TV series, documentaries, and books about life below the surface. We discuss all of this, and more!



GUEST LINKS

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Heinerth

- Into The Planet Podcast: https://intotheplanetpodcast.com

- Personal Website: https://www.IntoThePlanet.com

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillheinerth

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jillheinerth

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillheinerth



EPISODE LINKS

- Upcoming Documentary: https://divingintothedarkness.com/



BOOKS

- Into The Planet (Hardcover): https://amzn.to/3DJdIAv

- Into The Planet (Paperback): https://amzn.to/45goFW3

- The Aquanaut: https://amzn.to/43WUpP8



PODCAST INFO

- Podcast Website: https://adventures-less-traveled.com

- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LpB7vI

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-less-traveled/id1681357393



OUTLINE

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:30) - Into The Planet - My Life as a Cave Diver

(02:50) - The allure of cave diving

(05:15) - Interweaving fine arts, visual communications, and lust for adventure

(07:15) - Breaking away from orthodoxy

(12:35) - Jill's chip on her shoulder

(15:30) - Wakulla Spring incident

(22:40) - First cave dive in Antarctica

(27:35) - Compartmentalizing when things go wrong

(30:40) - New directions & upcoming documentary (Diving Into The Darkness)

(33:05) - Jill's legacy

(34:15) - Defining adventure



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** All videos and photos provided by Jill Heinerth with consent (Heinerth Productions)

Where are my adventure book worms at?? My 2024 reading list covering exploration, resiliency, escape, research, and everything in between!

EPISODE LINKS
- Charlie Walker JRE #1832: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0s6MNrgR48HxhoZpLZaJUn
- Yeonmi Park JRE #1691: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2x



OUTLINE

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:30) - Endurance - Alfred Lansing

(03:00) - On Roads that Echo - Charlie Walker

(03:10) - Through Sand & Snow - Charlie Walker

(04:15) - Marathon Man - Alan Cocoran

(04:20) - Unsinkable - Alan Cocoran

(05:10) - In Order to Live - Yeonmi Park

(06:10) - I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai

(07:25) - The River of Doubt - Candace Millard

(09:15) - Madhouse at the End of the Earth - Julian Sancton

(11:20) - Adventure Psychology - Paula Reid

(12:15) - The Two-Mile Time Machine (by Dr. Richard B. Alley) - Dr. Alison Criscitiello

(13:30) - Mountains of Fire - Dr. Clive Oppenheimer

(14:25) - Into The Planet - Jill Heinerth

(15:40) - Adventureholic - Neil Laughton

(16:40) - Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer



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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-less-traveled/id1681357393



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Few people on earth have ever seen erupting magma from an active volcano, been to North Korea, or been to the Mount Erebus volcano on Antarctica. One man has been to all three while pioneering academic research in the field of Volcanology - Dr. Clive Oppenheimer. He discusses the technical aspects of his field with respect to the importance of volcanoes and how to measure their activity, along with his approach to adventure and stories from around the world.





GUEST LINKS

- Twitter: @ultraplinian

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Oppenheimer

- University of Cambridge Faculty Profile: https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/oppenheimer/

- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P1sG2NQAAAAJ&hl=en





EPISODE LINKS

- Into the Inferno documentary: https://www.netflix.com/title/80066073

- Mountains of Fire: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo205711457.html





PODCAST INFO

- Podcast Website: https://adventures-less-traveled.com

- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LpB7vI

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-less-traveled/id1681357393





OUTLINE

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:20) - Importance of volcanoes & how to analyze them

(06:40) - Inspiration

(08:45) - Equipment used to measure volcanoes

(16:30) - Volcanoes' role in our lives

(21:15) - Research in Antarctica on Mt Erebus

(31:15) - Research in North Korea on Paektu San

(40:20) - Cultural reverence for volcanoes around the world

(45:40) - Dr. Oppenheimer defines adventure





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** All videos and photos provided by Dr. Clive Oppenheimer with consent

And just like that, 2023 has come and gone and the first year of the Adventures Less Traveled podcast in the books! An overview of guests and their respective topics, humorous mistakes along the way, top takeaways, and what to expect in 2024 is all discussed.

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- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adventures-less-traveled/id1681357393

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