Press & Acknowledgments


Highlights

  • 2021 Startup of the Year Finalist - Technology Impact Award - BC Tech

  • World’s First Live Underwater Broadcast to Giant Screen theatres

  • Featured as ‘#1 Breakthrough Innovations Saving our Ocean’ by National Geographic Voices

  • World’s First Thesis Defense Underwater

  • Featured as Top 20 National Changemakers on “We are Canada” on CBC


In the News

2022

Nelson company offers online answers in face of potential school closure questions - Toronto Star - 01/11/2022

2021

Company of the Year Finalist - Startup - Technology Impact Awards

2021 Emerging Rocket List - ICT - 03/21/2021

Live It is changing the way educators teach and children learn online in the midst of the pandemic - Kootenay Business - 01/20/2021

BC School Field Trips Are Going Online — and It’s Working - The Tyee - 01/10/2021

2019

Live It nominated: 2019 VIATEC Awards Finalists in the Innovative Excellence Category- 04/24/2019

2018

Classroom on the Water-Eagle Wing Tours-11/16/2018

LiveIt.Earth Offers Real-Time, Live Educational Experiences-Voices.Earth-08/31/2018

World Oceans Day is celebrated at Victoria’s Fisherman’s Wharf-CHEK News-06/10/2018

Local company will virtually connect BC students to experts in real-time- Victoria Buzz- 02/28/2018

2017

From coast to coast to coast, a voyage of joy and pain- Times Colonist- 10/22/2017

Diving Into the Arctic Ocean’s Wonders - High North News - 09/04/2017

Diving head first into a sea of Arctic knowledge - NunatsiaqOnline - 08/31/2017

UVic alumni make history with broadcast of Arctic live dive - UVic News - 08/28/2017

Underwater livestream from Arctic Ocean to be Canadian 1st- CBC News- 08/27/2017

Live-streamed underwater dives will offer watery window on Arctic life-Times Colonist- 08/19/2017

Broadcast of Nunavut live dive a Canadian first. UVic News. - 08/17/2017

UVic Live Dive from Nunavut a Canadian First. Saanich News & Victoria News. - 08/17/2017

Cette biologiste de la vie marine amène les étudiants dans les fonds marin. ILS FONT LE CANADA, Radio-Canada. Souligne les exploits de 18 agents de changements au pays. - 07/08/2017

This Marine Biologist is Bringing School Kids to the Ocean Floor. WE ARE CANADA, CBC. Highlighting young top 18 changemakers in the country - 04/30/2017

2016

Into the VR Zone: How virtual reality is changing Victoria’s world, The Martlet - 12/01/2016

Streaming Life, UVic Torch Alumni Magazine - Autumn 2016 Issue.

Fish Eye Project: Team on a Mission, DIVER Magazine - June 2016 Issue. 

8 Breakthrough Innovations Saving Our Ocean, National Geographic Voices - 06/08/2016

CTV News at 6 (Video) - 06/08/2016

World’s first underwater interactive 'movie' takes place in Victoria, CTV News - 06/08/2016

Divers broadcast Ogden Point underwater experience live (Video), CHEK News - 06/08/201

Mike Irvine, CFAX 1070 interview with Pamela McCall, Listen here (at 34:00) - 06/08/2016

Monique Keiran: We should look more deeply at the sea, Times Colonist, - 06/05/2016

Outreach at new depths – Live Dive Event at hydrothermal vents between Fiji and Tonga
‘edutains’ the next generation of ocean ambassadors. Deep-Sea Life, Issue 7, Page 20, June 2016.

Life in the deepest places of our oceans, Fiji Sun online - 04/26/2016

interactive live dives- a new way to connect with the oceans, Douglas Magazine - April/May 2016

2015

Featured in Diver Magazine - November 2015 issue

Academia goes underwater, Storify - April 2015

UVic Student makes history defending thesis underwater, CHEK NEWS -04/20/2015

Underwater Exploration. Watch Mike Irvine on CTV News - 04/20/2015  

Victoria Grad Student to defend his thesis underwater, Global news - 04/20/2015

Mike Irvine on All Points West, CBC - 04/17/2015

University of Victoria student to defend Masters thesis underwater, The Globe and Mail - 04/16/2015

University of Victoria student diving for his master's, Times Colonist - 04/16/2015

Mike Irvine defends master's thesis under water-CBC-04/15/2015

Le Week-end de la Plongée en Colombie-Britannique, Maeva Gauthier on Radio-Canada (CBC French) - 01/15/2016

2014

Maeva Gauthier on Phare Ouest, Radio-Canada Radio - 11/27/2014