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 [...]
The California Fish and Game Commission will consider emergency action on Thursday, Sept. 15 to possibly close the abalone fishery along the northern California coast. This action is being considered in the wake of confirmed reports of dead red abalone and other invertebrates on beaches and inside coves along the coast in Sonoma County. The [...]
Beginning August 27, a very large and potent red tide reached the shoreline areas of the Sonoma Coast. Since then, as a result of this phytoplankton bloom, tens of thousands of abalone have died and washed ashore, covering the beaches at the tideline. Divers are reporting dead or dying abalone just about everywhere along this [...]
Matt Mattison, Founder of Norcal Underwater Hunters and avid abalone diver, has sent out an emergency notice, asking all Sonoma coast abalone divers to temporarily refrain from harvesting any abalone. The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has confirmed reports of dead red abalone and sea stars inside coves along the coast in Sonoma County. The [...]
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