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 ShecklerMay 7, 2023
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ShecklerSeptember 10, 2019