We all know how important it is to perform a 15-foot deep "safety stop" at the end of a no-decompression…
Dale ShecklerJanuary 1, 2022
Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I saw that our dive boat had reached the backside of Santa Rosa, the…
Dale ShecklerJanuary 25, 2020
It was a strange sensation. It was like one minute we were diving the far reaches of the Northern Channel…
Dale ShecklerDecember 6, 2019
When the crowds of summer have gone, divers can safely get into nooks, crannies and reefs of Isthmus Cove that…
Dale ShecklerNovember 7, 2019
Just the name Goldfish Bowl makes you think of a fun, cute dive site. And it is. But there is…
Dale ShecklerOctober 8, 2019
Colonial cup coral, photo by D Sheckler It’s a fact stranger than fiction: there are underwater creatures commonly found in…
Dale ShecklerOctober 2, 2019
Did you know that the moray eels found in Southern California waters (the California moray, Gymnothorax mordax) are actually semi-tropical…
Dale ShecklerSeptember 10, 2019
AT-A-GLANCE Location: On the mainland side Anacapa Island (actually a chain of three islets) that is the closest to mainland…
Dale ShecklerAugust 13, 2019
A glass globe of the earth sitting in sand of a beach with waves crashing in the background. California divers…
Dale ShecklerJuly 7, 2019
