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The final weekend of 2015 abalone season ended with what will hopefully be its final 2015 fatality. On Saturday afternoon, Eric Stine, 58, from Vallejo was diving about a quarter …

Where does the Mafia get their explosives? If you’re in Europe, it might be from an Italian freight ship that was sunk in 1941 by a submarine. The Italian freighter …

On Sept. 15th, journalist Erik Anderson of NPR and KPBS Public Television sent a dive team out to interview and dive with us Michael Bear and Barbara Lloyd (Founder of Ocean Sanctuaries) to document the citizen science …

Baja California has laid the foundation for its first artificial reef by sinking an old Navy patrol boat, a Uribe 121 on Saturday, November 21. The ship was sunk about 30 miles …

With less than one week left in the 2015 abalone diving season, the ocean has claimed the life of another north coast abalone diver. It’s the eighth fatality related to …

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 …

Light & Motion, based in Marina, California, offers divers a new, competitively priced GoBe Anywhere light. The New GoBe S is shipping next week. It features a powerful beam with best-in-class run …