Another Abalone season is opening soon, with closed parks, limited services, and totally different abalone tags for 2011.  What’s a diver to do?  In this article we will look at …

I have been diving for 18 years, the past few with a camera stuck to my face shooting mainly macro subjects, and I have a confession to make: I have …

In October of 2009, I began hearing reports of encounters between local San Diego divers and Sevengill sharks [notorynchuscepedianus].  Having been diving locally since 2000, I thought this unusual, since this was the …

For California divers, Catalina Island, Santa Barbara, and Monterey are among the more popular diving destinations, offering an array of full-service dive shops, dedicated charter boats, and of course, great …

California’s 840-mile coastline offers incredible diversity in its range of diving opportunities.  The southern coast has relatively warm waters all summer long while further north, in Monterey, world-class cold water …