Posts in category Environment

The familiar cackling sound of northern elephant seals and soft “mah, mah” vocalizations of harbor seals mark their return to local beach rookeries to give birth to their pups. With …

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, California, USA (March 8, 2022) — The Professional Association of Diving Instructors®(PADI®), the world’s largest dive training organization, and Swiss prestige watchmaker, Blancpain are joining forces with …

Cyril Derreumaux is a man who has spent much of his 44 years seeking adventure. A lifelong traveler and ultra endurance athlete, his accomplishments go far beyond the typical weekend …

Coastal Cleanup Day – the world’s largest volunteer day to protect our environment – took place on Saturday, September 21. In California, the annual cleanup wasn’t limited to the coastline …

PADI is building on their ethos of protecting and preserving the ocean planet by introducing PADI Loves, a thoughtfully curated marketplace that features apparel, dive accessories and lifestyle products from …

Early Monday, May 6, a dead gray whale washed ashore at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It was the ninth gray whale to have washed ashore in the San Francisco …

(SAUSALITO, Calif. – April 10, 2019) – Scientists at The Marine Mammal Center confirm that the gray whale that stranded near Rodeo, CA, last week died of severe malnutrition. As …

To help give a boost to the struggling abalone population on California’s north coast, divers are preparing to harvest purple sea urchins this Saturday near Mendocino. Organized by the Waterman’s …

The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences (AUAS) is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the prestigious NOGI Award. Recipients of the 2019 NOGI Awards are: Brian Skerry (Arts), …

Abalone divers and shoreline pickers will need to wait until at least 2021 to legally harvest abalone again. At a meeting in Oceanside on Wednesday, the California Fish and Game …