Surface Time with Stephanie

I hope that you have been practicing mindful breathing since the last episode. Even better, you have completed your Confidence Builder Worksheet and got personalised guidance from Stephanie. Today she will delve deeper...

A bonus track of Guided Mindful Breathing Practice. This is suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Save this to your favourite. When you feel like a pick-me-up, use this track. About Surface Time...

In the last episode, Stephanie shared some tactics on managing fear. Have you managed to complete and send in your Confidence Builder Worksheet? So today, she will talk about the importance of breathing consciously...

In this new series, Stephanie has curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective about life. Which are all intricately...

Instead of my usual chinwag with other Diving Junkies, for this Series, I have curated a collection of transferrable experiences from scuba diving. Essentially, these are expressions demonstrating different perspective...

Adriana Basques, a corporate executive turned wildlife photographer. She has been using her camera to document moments of her encounters of beautiful creatures both on land and underwater. In fact, her photography...

Recently, I went diving in Coron, Philippines. This place is famous for wreck diving where you get to explore some Japanese ships that were sunk by US Task Force during World War II in 1944. We dived with Pirate Divers...

Carrie Miller, Storyteller, Author, Traveller. You may recognise her name from the previous episode with her and her husband, Chris Taylor, sharing their stories behind the book, A Diver’s Guide to the World. By the...

Hester was the person who got me off my procrastinating mode and started to produce Surface Time. When we did the recording, she has been on the “mummy’s break” from scuba diving for some time. I am sure that all mums...

Kate expresses her creativity through many media, including paintings and upcycling. Water is an element that plays a huge part in her life and how she shapes her own autobiography. I love what she said: we can all be a...

Katherine’s passion for photography fuels her, whether it is for underwater, wildlife or otherwise. Let’s listen to her recounting the incredible experience of diving in Anilao, Philippine when Taal Volcano erupted and...

Since money and investment are the two words naturally connected to her profession as a private banker, it is inevitable that we chatted at length about them. The word “investment” tends to be given a meaning limited...

You may recall from the episode with Magnus Akerblom-Wiker, where we spoke about one of his editorial photo of a diver holding a bunch of balloon in the Cenote, Mexico. Oh well, Karolina was that diver. My curiosity had...

When I first started producing Surface Time, my intention was simply to share the kind of heart-opening dialogues between divers through podcast forum. After producing a few episodes, I started to think that it would be...

During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Sam Shu Qin (founder of Our Singapore Reefs) and David Jones (from Jackson Square Aviation) about their collaboration in the project, Dive Against Debris in 2022. It started...