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
BC Edtech Startup Bringing Place-based Online Education to Schools Across the Province - Accelerate Okanagan - 06/14/2022
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