Dive SpotsFeatured California’s Underwater Treasure: 18 Tips for Diving Avalon Underwater Park When asked by out-of-towners who have never dived California waters where to begin, one of my favorite answers is the…Dale & Kim ShecklerApril 7, 2024
Marine LifeMarine Life IdentificationMollusksRecent Articles A Curious Encounter: Our California “Octopus Teacher” Chances are, you’ve watched the Netflix original film, My Octopus Teacher, which won the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary…Dale & Kim ShecklerJuly 12, 2022
Dive Tips Safety Stop Strategies We all know how important it is to perform a 15-foot deep "safety stop" at the end of a no-decompression…Dale & Kim ShecklerJanuary 1, 2022
Dive SpotsRecent ArticlesUncategorized A Freak of Nature: Anacapa Island’s Underwater Arch Divers are familiar with bubbles, so the underwater arch at Anacapa Island should not be such a big surprise to…Dale & Kim ShecklerMarch 4, 2020
Dive SpotsUncategorized Enjoying the East End Pinnacles of Santa Rosa Island Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I saw that our dive boat had reached the backside of Santa Rosa, the…Dale & Kim ShecklerJanuary 25, 2020
Dive SpotsUncategorized Mixing It Up at Santa Cruz’s Quail Rock It was a strange sensation. It was like one minute we were diving the far reaches of the Northern Channel…Dale & Kim ShecklerDecember 6, 2019
Dive SpotsUncategorized Crowd Control: Now’s a Great Time to Enjoy Catalina’s Cherry Cove When the crowds of summer have gone, divers can safely get into nooks, crannies and reefs of Isthmus Cove that…Dale & Kim ShecklerNovember 7, 2019
Dive SpotsUncategorized Two-for-One Fun at Anacapa: Goldfish Bowl Just the name Goldfish Bowl makes you think of a fun, cute dive site. And it is. But there is…Dale & Kim ShecklerOctober 8, 2019
Uncategorized The Flower Animals of California: All About Stony Corals Colonial cup coral, photo by D Sheckler It’s a fact stranger than fiction: there are underwater creatures commonly found in…Dale & Kim ShecklerOctober 2, 2019
Uncategorized The More Morays, the Better: Adventures in Eel Land Did you know that the moray eels found in Southern California waters (the California moray, Gymnothorax mordax) are actually semi-tropical…Dale & Kim ShecklerSeptember 10, 2019