A new TV series called “Shark Hunters” aired its first episode tonight on NBC, and that doesn’t sit right with Andrew Mills – a Scuba diver from Carmel, CA – who has …

Scuba diving is an activity that I’ve long been apart of, through working with California Diver Magazine to getting certified about two years back. I had never actually taken the …

Napa, California is near ground zero in California’s beautiful wine country – and it’s also home to the Undersea Voyager Project and their 2-man submarine dubbed “The Great White”.  With …

Dan Orr is known as a first-class educator and longtime ambassador for the diving industry. After serving with Divers Alert Network for over two decades, Orr has announced his retirement …

Around 1965, the first fiber helmets appeared on the marketing, replacing the earlier copper and brass helmets which had set the standard up to that time. One of these newer …

There are so many opportunities for things to go wrong when diving – it’s one of the reasons we’re always supposed to dive with a buddy. Even when diving with a buddy …

You may have to reconsider eating sushi made with eel after watching this video. In the early 1970’s, Valerie Taylor and her husband (Australian ocean experts and cinematographers) began scuba diving …

California Diver has just added a new discussion forum to our website! While it’s been in the works for many months, our new discussion forum is now online and we’re …

Before California’s ban on shark fins became law one year ago, 42-year old Michael Kwong was one of the area’s most vocal opponents. This week, he became the first major …

Overhead diving procedures have been developed, over time, by persons who have had to go into dark passages and recover far too many bodies. Most of these victims had no …