A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rick Bettua: BREATHE”:
Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…
Rick Bettua served thirty-two years as a U.S. Navy diver and is back to tell us more about his incredible survival stories that are now featured in his book, BREATHE: A Master Diver’s Survival Tales. He finished his career in 2008 as a command master chief petty officer and master diver, then returned for another three-year stint as an advisor, retiring in 2011.
In October 2004, he became the Navy’s command master chief of salvage diving, and in that role, he managed the world’s largest and most diverse diving command with more than 250 personnel operating throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as Iraq and Kuwait. Rob is quite familiar with Rick’s story since he edited his book. After Rick retired, he moved to Queensland, Australia where he is married, and has two children.
One other thing, if you think this introduction doesn’t sound like a typical mystical underground interview that explores the paranormal and mysteries of the unknown, you would be wrong. Rick’s story is not without some mind-blowing synchronicities, intuitive experiences and a touch of other-worldliness as well
Interesting timing, as I just watched the new Ron Howard movie that was filmed in my home Australian state of Queensland titled ‘13 Lives’ on Amazon Prime last night, which is about the rescue by Thai navy divers of a soccer team and their coach who wandered in to a cave system before being trapped by rising flood waters.
I actually just finished writing a blog post about it –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2022/08/13-lives-and-death-card.html
It’s a good movie, and it’s a shame it didn’t hit the cinema screens first, as that’s where I was hoping to watch it, instead of on my iPad screen.
These cave divers/navy divers are a lot braver than me, as diving is something I have no interest in ever doing … especially now.
After hearing Rick’s story, diving isn’t something I want to do. Years ago, Rob and I took scuba diving lessons. But now, no thanks.