Someone who has actually done the thing.
Twenty-eight years as a Navy saturation diving officer. One hundred consecutive days living under the sea as the subject of the study. A doctorate in what pressure does to people. Audiences can tell the difference between a speaker with stories and a speaker with scars.
- Fee
- Applies, quoted not published
- Formats
- Keynote, conference session, panel, school assembly
- Media
- Podcasts, documentary, interview, expert comment
- Reach
- United States and international
- Remote
- Available
- Booked via
- Joe’s team, not Joe directly
Response within one business dayInquire →
There is one. The number is not published, and that is deliberate.
It varies with the event, the audience, the travel and the preparation involved, so it gets quoted rather than posted. What is worth saying openly is that a fee exists, because otherwise every organization assumes the answer is free.
A significant amount of this work is done at a reduced rate or at no charge, particularly for schools and non-profits. If you are one of those, ask anyway. Where the time is donated, the value is recorded as a donation in kind.
If you are a school, ask. It is very often free.
If you are charging admission to hear the talk, the fee applies.
What audiences get
Talks are built for the room. These are the threads they are built from.
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Human performance under pressure
—What actually happens to a body in extreme environments, and what that teaches about limits: physical, organizational, personal.
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Brain injury and what the evidence says
—For medical, military and veteran audiences. Delivered by a researcher, with the limits of the evidence stated out loud.
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Most requested
Science wins
How to tell a real finding from a confident sales pitch, and why the ability to ask “show me the mechanism” matters more now than it has in any of our lifetimes. Works for corporate audiences, conferences and school assemblies alike.
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Exploration as a habit
—100 days undersea, the missions before it, and the argument that exploration is the single most essential human activity.
Interviews, podcasts, documentary and expert comment
Available for science journalism, hyperbaric and diving-safety comment, and brain injury coverage, with the standing caveat that Joe is a biomedical engineer, not a physician, and will not be quoted as one.
All requests route through Joe’s team rather than to Joe directly. It is faster that way, and it is how he wants it.
Expedition footage, chamber footage and Project Neptune 100 material exist and can be discussed.