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A Good Place to Start
This web site is basically for a few purposes. If you are visiting California
and want to know where to dive and what to expect, this should tell you in
detail. If you like to read about diving, this is an excellent collection of
dive stories by myself and many others who have contributed stories from
California and around the world. If you
want to find out anything about California Diving, it should be in here
somewhere. There are a number of photo galleries as well. Most of all, this
site is to celebrate the fun, beauty and wonder of diving.
It has been created over a period of many years and so the style of the essays
has changed greatly over time. ... My writing has certainly improved. There is
a line put in below that shows the most recent essays. That's a good place to start if
you are new to the site. I'll mark a few of the best reports in bold or start here,
Sea Ranch Diving '05 or this recent one with videos and big bugs -
Foggy New Year Lobster Dive with Mel - 12.5 lb.
Bug.
This is a collection of great diving stories. Before the web, to tell this story, you
would have needed to publish a book, which would never have come close to making a
profit. Now these stories can be published on the web for people to enjoy at no cost.
There is something new and special about that. Anyone who wants can enjoy what we
experienced.
If you are coming to California and want to try the diving, here are some essays
that should give you the information you need. If it's not here, it's in another
essay.
There is more below, including local useful links, photo galleries, a complete
California Coastal Diving Guide and far more information about California
diving.
If you have a dive story or photos that you think belong here, please
Send Me Your Comments
With eight offshore islands and about 1000 miles of shoreline, there is an
awful lot of diving available. The cool nutrient rich waters produce a
lushness of life matched almost no where else. It is some of the best
diving in the world.
California diving is different from most other places and
created a different kind of diver. It is fairly cold water, which
promotes lush growth and makes more physical demands on the divers.
Because of the cold water and because the Sea Otter was almost
removed from California, game became incredibly abundent. In the
early days of diving, most California divers were hunters. This
made for very dynamic, skilled divers, many using very old hunting
instincts to adapt and move as predators of the underwater reefs,
not just as visitors. For divers like this, whose instincts are
liberated and enervated by the underwater realm, the vast exotic
diving of California becomes an endless adventure and inspiration.
It is their natural place. The concept of taking continuing scuba
classes to get more comfortable diving, is a bizarre idea to them.
How do you become more comfortable in your own home? They have
little interest in equipment, because the most important element
of their diving is the diver, not the gear. Actually, what I try
to describe here, diving as an exciting adventure, can be true of
divers anywhere. There are adventurers who enter the water many
places, but California diving has promoted this more than anywhere
else.
One other thing about California Diving. When cold water diving, you do not have to be quite as careful of the bottom life as in the warm water. Coral is incredibly fragile. Algae is among the fastest growing plants in the world. It is never good to be careless about it, but pulling along the bottom by grabbing rocks or kelp holdfasts, does minimal damage in the colder waters and allows the diver a completely different way to move through the reef. Often the diver ends up in places that are actually too confined for really swimming.
Some people know the spots. You have to be a gutsy diver to go where this guy goes.
While I am trying for the most accurate stories I can get, some
may sound pretty incredible. That is why they are in here though.
That is why we dive too. When diving, sometimes we are lucky
enough to see the incredible.
This seems like a good place to thank Chris for hosting this site at Diver.net for so long. Thanks Chris!
I hope that you enjoy reading this.
California Diving Lore
Whatever is listed just above this line was my last dive report.
Lets try an older picture here... Joe, Sheldon and company have been picking on the bugs again.
Carribean Diving and Beyond
The Hunters -
Well, a little bit more so anyway.
Beyond Sport Diving
Picture Gallery -
A Variety Of Photographs From The Sea..
California Diving Web Sites
Chris Grossman's California Divers Network
From Beyond California - These are Great Stories
