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Episode 574
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Jim Martin of the Key West Trading Company about the history of that favourite tipple of pirates, writ…
2 years, 4 months ago
The White Vault - Ocean science and horror
Episode 573
An oceanography research vessel working to collect Antarctic deep-sea sediment cores pulls up something unexpected from the depths of the Southern Oc…
2 years, 5 months ago
Florida dolphins and toxic plastic chemicals
Episode 572
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat with Miranda Dziobak about the toxic chemicals from plastics that are being found in Florida's dolphins, …
2 years, 5 months ago
Right whale stranding at Martha's Vineyard - grave concerns for an endangered species
Episode 571
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic discuss the recent right whale stranding in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and the continuing threat that sh…
2 years, 5 months ago
Crabeater seals in Antarctica
Episode 570
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr. Luis Huckstadt about his research in Antarctica on the crabeater seal. What is it like to do resea…
2 years, 5 months ago
The physiology of marine mammals
Episode 569
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr Mike Tift about his research on the physiology of marine mammals and the effects that their deep-di…
2 years, 6 months ago
Great white Baby Shark do do do do
Episode 568
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic talk about the recent (allegedly) sighting of a baby Great white shark. Is it really the first sighting of a …
2 years, 6 months ago
Osprey decline in the Chesapeake Bay
Episode 567
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are in Colonial Williamsburg visiting taverns and Dr Smash is four sheets to the wind. In this episode they ta…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ghosts, pirates and university funding
Episode 566
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are recording a special episode in the haunted King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. In this episode th…
2 years, 6 months ago
The pirates of the Chesapeake Bay
Episode 565
Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are joined by special guest Jamie Goodall - an expert in the history of pirates! They talk about pirate histor…
2 years, 7 months ago