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Colonize The Ocean - Shorts : DEMA 2026 -What’s The Big Deal?

This week Babe and I are heading to New Orleans for DEMA Show 2026, the world's largest dive industry trade show and its 50th anniversary year. So what is DEMA, why is it such a big deal, and what is ASC hoping to get out of it?

We talk about how DEMA is different from Underwater Intervention, the speakers and new tech on the show floor, why we're going to network rather than set up a booth (yet), a full dive helmet with the air built in that we saw at a past show, and the startups and R&D teams we'd love to partner with to bring living, working and vacationing underwater closer.

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