Once again, it’s the time of the year when we as a diving community band together for the benefit of our Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber. That’s right—Chamber Day 2012 is upon …
Dive and fitness instructors alike can now become certified to teach fitness to divers. The Padi ScubaFit® course was developed by Gretchen M. Ashton, a certified fitness trainer and Stephen …
California’s resources have brought both boom and bust in many locations throughout our golden state, and in the wake, there has always been something to be found. In the case …
Technical Diving was a term created by Michael Menduno in 1990 to categorize the types of dives being done at that time by the “crazies” in the dive community. These …
Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 20th, 7:00am to 3:30pm! Join the Norcal Underwater Hunters for their annual Big Abalone Cook Off and Abalone Network Fundraiser! This fun event is …
The Divers Alert Network (DAN) has just announced the launch of their new new online store. The DAN online store provides divers and other watersports enthusiasts with a way to purchase …
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 …
California Diver Magazine is dedicated to scuba diving, freediving, and other dive activities both above and below the water. While our focus is on California diving, divers from everywhere will …