“You have to remember, there were very few divers in those days”, Jim Willoughby recalls. “Sooner or later you would meet other divers on the beach. Eventually, five of us …
San Diego Lifeguards have closed La Jolla-area beaches after several kayakers recorded an encounter with a hammerhead shark. The encounter was caught on video. Lifeguards say the footage shows one 8- to …
Earlier today, a team of 14 scientists from The Marine Mammal Center and California Academy of Sciences arrived at Angel Island State Park to perform a necropsy on the whale carcass …
The Manta Learning Center in Kona, Hawaii celebrated their first anniversary on August 16-22 with a celebration and a wide range of educational activities for locals and visitors alike. In …
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the BBC is in Monterey this week and next to film the BBC and PBS collaboration called Big Blue Live. The show will showcase the marine life …
It is not often that I soil my wetsuit. Most of our scientific diving here at Santa Catalina Island involves counting fish, kelp stipes, and invertebrates along a 20-foot depth …
Healthy shoulders are vital to a positive scuba diving experience. The mobility of the shoulder joint exceeds every other joint in the human body. It enables divers to reach behind, …
While attending the Monterey Shootout two weeks ago, I had the pleasure to meet with accomplished underwater photographer and book author Richard Salas. In addition to attending the shootout, Richard …
Dr. Jeffrey Bozanic has been selected by the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) as the recipient of its Conrad Limbaugh Memorial Award for Scientific Diving Leadership. The Limbaugh Memorial …
Abalone season has been reopened for nearly 4 weeks now after the regular July closure. Unfortunately, the restarting of the season has led to another death, possibly due to rough …