Diving Deep: Engineering, Ecology, and The Echoes of the Titan Incident with Shanee Stopnitzky

August 13, 2023

Stopnitzky dives: Titan’s impact, ocean’s promise.

In an episode, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Shanee Stopnitzky to explore the vast complexities of marine ecology, technology, and human exploration. From the promise of artificial upwellings to making deep-sea exploration accessible to all through the Community Submersibles Project, Shanee delves into her pioneering work in marine environments. The conversation takes a somber turn as they reflect on the tragic Titan submersible incident, discussing its implications for the submersible community and Shanee's personal relationship to the event. Gain an in-depth understanding of the Prism initiative—an underwater sanctuary designed to transform our relationship with marine ecosystems—and discover the profound wonders of our oceans. An episode that navigates the peaks of human innovation and the valleys of tragedy in our relentless quest to explore the deep blue.

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Peter Ravella & Tyler Buckingham

Peter and Tyler joined forces in 2015 and from the first meeting began discussing a project that would become Coastal News Today and the American Shoreline Podcast Network. At the time, Peter and Tyler were coastal consultants for Pete’s firm, PAR Consulting, LLC. In that role, they worked with coastal communities in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, engaged in grant writing, coastal project development, shoreline erosion and land use planning, permitting, and financial planning for communities undertaking big beach restoration projects. Between and among their consulting tasks, they kept talking and kept building the idea of CNT & ASPN. In almost every arena they worked, public engagement played a central role. They spent thousands of hours talking with coastal stakeholders, like business owners, hotel operators, condo managers, watermen, property owners, enviros, surfers, and fishermen. They dived deep into the value, meaning, and responsibility for the American shoreline, segment-by-segment. Common threads emerged, themes were revealed, differences uncovered. There was a big conversation going on along the American shoreline! But, no place to have it. That's where CNT and ASPN were born.