Do you like the challenge of shooting wide angle photos in California? I love a challenge, and often times everyday life doesn’t throw enough of them at us. Real challenges, like swimming through a stiff current and trying to remain silent enough to not scare away timid creatures, or rolling overboard to chase a Mola-mola [...]
Dive and fitness instructors alike can now become certified to teach fitness to divers. The Padi ScubaFit® course was developed by Gretchen M. Ashton, a certified fitness trainer and Stephen Mendel, a multi agency scuba instructor. The PADI ScubaFit® Diver Distinctive Specialty Course offers new opportunities for instructors and dive shop owners to improve the [...]
Diver, Beware. Every dive site has its lore. Some are famous for gorgeous underwater topography. Others for their noteworthy marine life. Still others are known for being great training spots. And then, there is Monastery Beach in Carmel, California. True—Monastery is well-known for its stunning underwater landscape, astride a subaquatic canyon that drops off thousands [...]
California’s resources have brought both boom and bust in many locations throughout our golden state, and in the wake, there has always been something to be found. In the case of the once thriving oil industry, we have gigantic oil platforms. Built with pure brawn, steel and concrete to withstand the oceans unpredictable nature, these [...]
Technical Diving was a term created by Michael Menduno in 1990 to categorize the types of dives being done at that time by the “crazies” in the dive community. These divers were doing things like cave diving, deep and decompression diving, penetration wreck diving, and using gas mixtures like nitrox. His goal was to bring [...]
The Breakwater in Monterey is a well-known dive spot where many new divers complete their open water checkout dives – and for good reason. It’s well protected from ocean swells, making it possible to dive almost every day of the year. It’s gently sloping, sandy shoreline provides an easy entry and exit, and underwater, the slope [...]
Freediving is an inherently dangerous sport. Driving a car is inherently dangerous as well. Adding to this perception, whenever a person in the diving community drowns, the media nearly always emphasizes how hazardous the sport of diving can be, even while the hundreds of injuries and fatalities that occur in traffic accidents daily are rarely [...]
The theory of evolution claims that all land animals evolved from the sea. Some of them went inland, away from the ocean shorelines, while others, like humans, stayed close to the familiar and life giving waters. As we evolved more and more into land animals, we maintained a very important aquatic adaptation known as The [...]
