This one is easy, so let's get over with it pretty quick. Here're a few reasons why you should throw away your Nikonos (or send it to me for my person...more

Published on 2010-04-03 10:44:23

There's no secret, if you want to shoot high quality pictures, your choice should be DSLR.Unfortunately, it comes with a price. Actually many prices.....more

Published on 2010-04-03 11:32:15

Lots of point-and-shoot come with very basic shooting modes. If you can only see an "Auto" button, stay away from these, there're the secret for blue ...more

Published on 2010-04-04 10:09:25

Let's make it clear here now: YOU NEED A FLASH. As a beginner you can shoot very decent pictures with the internal flash of your point and shoot. Exte...more

Published on 2010-04-04 10:11:09

A lot of hardcore underwater photographers will insist that manual white balance is mandatory for successfull colorful shots. This is only because the...more

Published on 2010-04-04 10:54:43

Let's not start a war here. Just don't waste your money on a brand that specializes in vaccum cleaners and have a cheap line of cameras. Canon and Nik...more

Published on 2010-04-04 10:56:14

Unless you like blue blurry pics, stay away from both digital and optical zooms (especially digital). The only zoom setting you should be using on an ...more

Published on 2010-04-04 10:57:33

The format of the media actually does not really matters. CF is bulky. SD is fragile. Both store zillions of pixels and do their job pretty well. Howe...more

Published on 2010-04-04 11:23:41

Just like films in the old days, batteries cannot be changed underwater (it would be neat but probably not really environment friendly). So when you c...more

Published on 2010-04-04 11:25:18

The case is also a significant piece of your gear. There's also many factors to take into consideration when selecting a case such as the depth rating...more

Published on 2010-04-04 11:27:12

Here you are, you bought your dream gear. A nice compact point and shoot digital camera and a perfectly fitting underwater proof case. This very simpl...more

Published on 2010-04-04 22:16:11

Unless you want to print posters of your fantastic whale sharks encounter in wide angle in Coco's, you can surely live with less than 8 Megapixels. Ho...more

Published on 2010-04-04 22:53:28

Just like everything you do while diving, shooting pictures underwater requires some skills not necessary while shooting on land. This short tutorial ...more

Published on 2010-04-04 23:10:01

Light and composition are two main elements of a great shot. This tutorial will help you compose your shot by taking into acount the scene you're tryi...more

Published on 2010-04-05 08:43:13

The properties of light underwater differ from on land. Past 5 meters (15 feet), the color red disapears and we need an external source of light (a fl...more

Published on 2010-04-05 14:06:39

Your case's o-ring is what separates a fun day of diving from a terrible-day-when-my-camera-flooded of diving. Proper maintenance is necessary to keep...more

Published on 2010-04-11 22:08:28

  As water absorbs a vast quantity of the light that passes through it, an external source of light such as a flash is needed to get the best out of...more

Published on 2010-04-21 00:18:38

Backscatter is the result of tiny particles such as sand or plankton reflecting the light from the flash close enough to the lens to be captured by th...more

Published on 2010-04-21 23:58:40

Don't use Microsoft Internet Explorer on our website. The best experience will be with Google Chrome or Firefox. Consider upgrading your browser to o...more

Published on 2010-04-22 00:23:43

Diving with photographers or a videographers when you're not one is a pain. You have to wait for them all the time, they never pay attention to you as...more

Published on 2010-04-23 23:27:00

I heard that trick at the Scuba Show in Long Beach a couple of years ago and have been using it since then. When I see a cool fish and I know I need t...more

Published on 2010-04-23 23:34:58

Pissing off Garibaldis is hilarious. Do you know how many shots these little guys ruined by getting in the way? Zillions. So now it's time for payback...more

Published on 2010-04-24 09:04:43

If there is one thing important when shooting underwater, it's shooting in non automatic modes. Point and shoot automatic modes are optimized for land...more

Published on 2010-04-24 18:48:41

My video camera shoots in HD. Sort of. It's a Sony camcorder with a built-in 60GB hard drive that stores what it shoots in AVCHD.AVCHD is a very powe...more

Published on 2010-05-12 18:52:49

One of my pictures I took at the 2009 PADI Total Submersion in Grand Cayman was published today in Range Finder Magazine in the US! My friend Jim Corn...more

Published on 2010-05-12 19:27:55

After 15 years of wet-suit the arctic temperature of the Pacific finally took its toll and I invested in a dry suit. Now I have to learn to ...more

Published on 2010-05-19 02:31:40

A few cameras offer special scene modes that are supposedly optimized for underwater imaging. They are to be used in replacement for manual ...more

Published on 2010-05-28 01:49:55

Three days after DAN's CEO Dan Orr came to our dive club to talk about all the nasty things that can happen while diving, our dive boat off Cabo Pulmo...more

Published on 2010-05-28 02:02:30

Macro photography is the art of shooting small stuff. Nudibranchs are a very nice subject for macro but other subjects not necessarily minuscule also ...more

Published on 2010-05-30 18:25:04

So you think only DSLR can shoot wide angle pictures? Think again! There is a way to make fisheye blush with a point-and-shoot. Let's unleash the powe...more

Published on 2010-05-30 19:02:30

Resizing and cropping is probably the easiest to use tool in your digital darkroom. It allows you to keep only the part of the image you are intereste...more

Published on 2010-05-31 15:47:25

Just like underwater photography, underwater video requires a certain amount of specialized gear. This  tutorial is all about the bare minimum to kno...more

Published on 2010-06-06 16:40:52

We left Orange County on Friday night and spent the night in Oxnard. I don't like sleeping on dive boats, especially only one night. The rest of our g...more

Published on 2010-06-15 21:35:26

  That was supposed to be a great day of diving. It was not. Not really.The arctic temperatures of the Pacific seem to be gone now that Summer is ju...more

Published on 2010-06-19 22:38:46

On the first dive I did not take my camera. Of course we saw two Giant Black Sea Bass. Of course.As the red tide keeps on messing the conditions on ...more

Published on 2010-06-28 21:56:22

What best place to spend Independance Day than on a boat to Catalina?We left the house at dawn and I had to turn around 2 minutes later when I realize...more

Published on 2010-07-07 19:38:28

There can be only two explanations: either I need a powerful prescription mask or there was really nothing worth seeing that Saturday in Catalina.That...more

Published on 2010-07-27 21:30:49

I usually don't do night dives.I did last night.I wanted to test that contraption I built 6 months ago for my video case which adds two Princeton Tec ...more

Published on 2010-08-14 00:44:12

We went to Fiji in December 2008. We spent Christmas and New Year over there. For Christmas, we were staying on Beqa, that's a small island south of V...more

Published on 2010-08-26 22:42:44

With my wife off to La Paz, Mexico playing with whale sharks and no buddy to dive with in the middle of the week, I've decided to dive Shaw's Cove sol...more

Published on 2010-09-02 19:06:31

So yesterday I dove solo at Shaw's. Today I had a buddy. We did two dives and my electrical tape patched dry suit stayed dry. On the first dive, we we...more

Published on 2010-09-03 23:23:49

To celebrate one of my buddies 400th dive, we dove Dead Man's Reef in the morning and Shaw's in the afternoon. Dead Man's was gastly as it should be w...more

Published on 2010-09-11 21:25:47

Sunday was supposed to be the monthly Laguna Sea Dwellers Beach Dive & BBQ. Well it ended up being simply the BBQ.We had been warned that two Sout...more

Published on 2010-09-19 09:50:36

As an ex-president of Laguna Sea Dwellers was getting married on the exact day the same Laguna Sea Dwellers very active dive club for over-active dive...more

Published on 2010-09-28 13:09:12

It seems the conditions have not been that bad. However, who would want to risk the high bacterial levels that usually follow rain to see a couple of ...more

Published on 2010-10-18 20:36:58

In 1998 I went to Guadeloupe, an island in the French Antilles and dove the "Réserve Cousteau", a national marine protected area. The diving there wa...more

Published on 2010-11-07 18:23:17

Saturday was a gorgeous day, sunny and midly warm and we all met at the top of Shaw's Cove stairs. The ocean down below looked like a lake, only distr...more

Published on 2010-11-14 11:38:08

Two weeks ago I received my new Canon Powershot G12 and its Canon WP-DC34 underwater housing. The G series is Canon's high end point & shoot line ...more

Published on 2010-12-01 01:51:26

Laguna Beach will be closed for diving for the holidays. The major storms that hit the coast on December 21st and 22nd made landfall on Laguna. For tw...more

Published on 2010-12-27 18:52:21

I was worried. I had just came back from Saba in the Dutch West Indies with rather mixed feelings. The island itself was gorgeous but the underwater e...more

Published on 2011-01-12 23:42:42

Now this is a camera I will never take underwater.I doubt that anybody would be crazy enough to build an underwater housing for this monster. With a ...more

Published on 2011-01-29 09:26:05

It was a beautiful day in sunny California and the Laguna Sea Dwellers had their yearly whale watching cruise off the coast of Dana Point.If you've ne...more

Published on 2011-02-02 01:19:36

It seems this year I can't get any diving. The local condition, here in Southern California have been terrible. Viz is once again measured in inches a...more

Published on 2011-03-13 12:55:41

I started writing this article shortly after the cleanup. However an ectic month of March with traveling to the other side of the world, house hunting...more

Published on 2011-03-22 23:03:18

Hi dear readers!I've entered one of my pictures to the first BlueWater Photo Contest on Facebook. It's available at http://apps.facebook.com/offerpop...more

Published on 2011-03-24 00:19:46

Every time we dive we put our life at risk. Most of us will never get in trouble thanks to basic safe diving techniques now taught almost everywhere. ...more

Published on 2011-04-05 00:19:59

Well it seems that not diving for 2 months had a slight effect on my brain. I must have lost a few cells as I forgot my diffuser when I went diving th...more

Published on 2011-05-19 19:35:29

I went to the South Orange County Dive Club BBQ this morning with my camera. This time I forgot to put a card in it. Not really smart. Maybe I should ...more

Published on 2011-05-28 18:32:07

Two years ago I traveled to Grand Cayman for the 10th Annual PADI Total Submersion. That's an international event that happens every year with divers ...more

Published on 2011-07-17 22:47:45

Last year I went to the San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition and liked it a lot. So this year I figured out I might as well register for both days of th...more

Published on 2011-09-15 22:52:01

As I have now officially decided to stay away from the water for a little while, I've started browsing my old pictures and realized I had not shared m...more

Published on 2011-10-08 23:33:03

So I had decided that I was going to join the dark side and become an exclusive warm water diver. That was before one of my dive buddies and good frie...more

Published on 2012-01-04 22:33:47

An extra benefit from living in Southern California is that you're about 5 hours away from the islands of Hawaii. After Oahu and the Big Island a coup...more

Published on 2012-02-19 22:14:02

It seems global warning, the Japanese nuclear incident or in similar likelihood Justin Bieber are having a dramatic effect on our local Southern Calif...more

Published on 2012-02-20 10:25:57

What can feel any better than waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning to go pick trash on an island off the coast of Southern California? Maybe the feel...more

Published on 2012-02-29 20:44:23

So it appears that the iPhone I found two weeks ago while cleaning the harbor in Avalon is an iPhone 4 and kind of works!Amazing.After 12 hours in a b...more

Published on 2012-03-13 23:26:19

In three weeks Laguna Beach will host the 2012 KelpFest, a yearly event to celebrate the return of the kelp forests to our beautiful coastal city. Thi...more

Published on 2012-03-31 10:45:25

So that was Easter and in this little corner of the world, this is a big deal. True, it's not as big as Christmas were gazillion of dollars are being ...more

Published on 2012-04-09 20:09:30

Last week, Nancy Caruso from Get Inspired Inc. ran out of money to fund her kelp restoration project that had been successfully reimplanting giant kel...more

Published on 2012-05-26 09:44:43

So I'm single for a week with my buddy gone to Little Cayman for some warm water excitement and after a Saturday of video games and playing with the c...more

Published on 2012-05-27 17:49:02

I was hoping for another dive at Cress this week end but the Moon and the gods were against us as the very low tide and the surf patterns of this earl...more

Published on 2012-06-10 15:55:09

So it's now official. I had suspected it on my dives in Cress three weeks ago, and in Divers Cove last week, but now there is now doubt in my mind: th...more

Published on 2012-06-16 21:07:00

  There's a couple of things that become boring when you are a diver. Snorkeling is one of them. It just seems like a whole waste of energy for not m...more

Published on 2012-08-13 23:15:46

In April 2006 I spent a week in La Paz, Mexico. I came back with images of playful but scarce sea lions out of Los Islotes, the local sea lion colony....more

Published on 2012-09-20 16:35:04

Contrary to last year San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition, this year edition of SDUFEX sent chills down my spine on several occasions. The quality of t...more

Published on 2012-10-20 10:21:17

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. This tutorial details the basics of HDR shooting and explains their applicability to underwater imaging.So I got th...more

Published on 2012-10-26 22:45:26

November in Southern California is usually the best time to go diving. Water is not too cold yet (although readers from Florida will probably object) ...more

Published on 2012-11-30 11:59:37

  So this is winter again. However, here in Southern California, winter is not like in Oslo or Mineapolis. In winter, we have the best diving con...more

Published on 2013-02-03 18:43:24

Two weeks ago I went diving  with the peeps of South Orange County Dive Club and forgot my camera. Bummer, I hate getting old. And it's only the begi...more

Published on 2013-02-16 16:53:55

Spring is in the air, however cold and foggy, it's there. Garibaldis are busy eating everything but red algae to make the perfect nest for the perfect...more

Published on 2013-03-17 21:49:48

I had everything figured out: I had just received my brand new regulator, a Scubapro MK-17 and a 2013 G260, I had two fills and I was ready for two te...more

Published on 2013-03-29 21:04:30

After the fantastic dive of the day before in Shaw's Cove, I decided to join the SOCDC  morning dive group again this Saturday and I did not regret i...more

Published on 2013-03-30 18:36:11

Oil rig diving had been on my list for quite some time and I had been planning on trying this unusual dive adventure since I had sent out my dry suit ...more

Published on 2013-04-09 22:16:55

OK, it was probably not my 103rd dive at Shaw's. Or maybe it was. I have lost track a couple of years ago. It was certainly not the first one, but ev...more

Published on 2013-04-13 20:54:59

Our website has been updated to support mobile browsing. If you connect from your tablet or your smartphone, you will notice a slightly different desi...more

Published on 2013-04-16 00:14:07

This week end, Laguna Beach will host the 2013 KelpFest, a yearly event to celebrate the return of the kelp forests to our beautiful coastal city. Thi...more

Published on 2013-04-16 19:57:27

You know it's really bad when you come back ashore with more pictures you took of your buddies before the dive, at the surface, than during the dive.T...more

Published on 2013-04-20 18:57:05

The surfline forecast was looking pretty good for surfers. Not too much for divers...Despite the gloomy reports, I got up early on Monday morning and ...more

Published on 2013-05-21 20:18:09

Surf's been up for a couple of days and week-end dives had been canceled. When it started to recede, I decided to go try my luck at Mountain Street, h...more

Published on 2013-05-30 17:42:06

Surf's still up and viz still sucks, but nonetheless I went and dove Mountain Road again. It's actually how it's called, on my way back from my first ...more

Published on 2013-05-31 19:32:19

It was dead crappy today. Surf is still up, actually nastier than Thursday & Friday. It was even raining a little as I was gearing up.Not much to ...more

Published on 2013-06-03 12:59:47

Conditions are better! Yay! Surge is down a notch and visibility improved from dead crappy to tolerable. Too bad the big surf is coming...So that was ...more

Published on 2013-06-05 17:43:04

For the first time in history, I went diving with a camera and came back with no pictures. Viz at Mountain was abysmal. Should have stayed home....more

Published on 2013-06-16 22:32:03

Last week was probably one of the worse non-red-tide dive ever. I was hopeful that this week end would bring clearer and calmer waters.Well it did not...more

Published on 2013-06-22 14:05:35

I went down to the beach today to dive Mountain. Double swell wave pattern with 4ft+ crisscrossing the surf zone. I decided to call it a day.I drove...more

Published on 2013-08-03 13:21:55

Every year in the US, the Discovery Channel airs "Shark Week".During that week everything shown is shark-related. And of course it's absolute utter bu...more

Published on 2013-08-08 19:29:49

In 1988 Luc Besson directed The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu). It is considered a cult movie that touched a whole generation and just like Cousteau's ...more

Published on 2013-09-14 14:14:23

Two weeks ago I dove Montage with the SOCDC gang on Saturday and Mountain by myself on Sunday.Saturday was fun but not that great. We had a strong sur...more

Published on 2013-09-21 16:17:20

Last week I went to Catalina to dive Casino Point.We took the 8:30am Cat Express from Long Beach and did 2 dives.Conditions were good but not great fo...more

Published on 2013-09-22 13:10:22

So here it is. I have officially 500 logged dives. According to the logbook I started on the 19th of February 1995, I spent 23,928 minutes underwater....more

Published on 2013-09-23 23:44:42

This morning,  like almost every Saturday morning now, I showed up for the  SOCDC weekend dive. It was a gorgeous day in Laguna Beach but unfortunat...more

Published on 2013-09-28 14:59:21

There's a wide variety of non-profits which try to educate the masses on the beauty of the ocean. Every year I try to help the Kelp Festival in Laguna...more

Published on 2013-10-18 22:35:26

I had been monitoring the conditions for almost a week and it was going to be awesome. Not much surf, no wind, sunny and hot, and most reports posted ...more

Published on 2013-10-19 17:02:47

Two weeks ago I went down to San Diego for the 14th annual San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition, aka SDUFEX. This is a two evening showing of high quali...more

Published on 2013-10-27 11:43:37

This is Halloween, pumpkins scream in the dead of night!Well, with the South Orange County Dive Club, there's no one to hear them scream underwater!I'...more

Published on 2013-10-29 20:47:56

Every year in November, right near the end of the hurricane season, the small island of Grand Cayman in the Caribbean is having a week where everyone ...more

Published on 2013-11-25 21:26:52

Little Cayman is a puddle jumper half hour away from Grand Cayman, flying East. Its sister island, Cayman Brac, which I have not visited yet, is only ...more

Published on 2013-11-29 12:33:44

The weather had been perfect the whole week.Visibility had been reported in the 30ft range, surface had been a lake.While I was working.Then came Than...more

Published on 2013-12-04 22:47:31

While the rest of the country is fighting sub-zero temperatures, here in Southern California, balmy 70F (20°C) greeted us over the week end. Surf was...more

Published on 2014-01-13 21:22:12

Winter is still running pretty hard on us here in Southern California. 75F at the beach (24°C), 82F inland (28°C), high surf coming tonight only (it...more

Published on 2014-01-18 16:54:53

Last year I dove the oil rig Eureka. Unfortunately, conditions were awful and we had to abort the trip after the first dive. So this year, I decided t...more

Published on 2014-01-25 21:59:52

As I mentionned in on of my previous local dive reports, I submitted one of my pictures taken during our recent dive at Heisler Park with  specta...more

Published on 2014-02-02 12:30:08

I've been sick. Hence the one month hiatus in my diving and my dive reports. Oh and I've been traveling a lot too. Coast to coast, across the Atlantic...more

Published on 2014-03-17 14:53:28

Two months ago, I dove the oil rigs and loved it. Visibility was fantastic and the experience was quite unforgettable.Today, the South Orange County D...more

Published on 2014-03-22 18:53:09

 Today was a crappy day. Went to the beach, met with the SOCDC peeps and decided to go back home as numerous divers were reporting viz under 5ft....more

Published on 2014-03-29 12:52:22

Today, like every Saturday (weather permitting) the South Orange County Dive Club had their beach dive in Laguna Beach. Conditions were reported not g...more

Published on 2014-04-12 15:43:46

Saturday SOCDC dive at Crescent Bay was not that great. Conditions were relatively poor, visibility in the 10ft range, sometimes slightly better, some...more

Published on 2014-04-20 09:23:43

It was one of these days.The morning started slowly, I made it on time to the Vons parking lot for the SOCDC Saturday morning beach dive. Two other di...more

Published on 2014-05-17 22:25:56

Every year the local diving community around Los Angeles raises funds for the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber. This is "Chamber Day".During that one-day e...more

Published on 2014-06-05 21:06:11

I had planned an extended week-end on Catalina Island, a little break before the real vacation in a few weeks.Topside, the weather had been pretty goo...more

Published on 2014-07-22 21:35:35

It could have been a disastrous trip.We  had a group of 46 people, 36 of them divers from the South Orange County Dive Club (SOCDC), booked on a ...more

Published on 2014-08-16 14:49:36

It's not because I don't post anything here that I don't go diving. OK most of the time, it means I don't go diving. But over the last few weeks the c...more

Published on 2014-10-11 16:53:48

While the rest of the country is battling arctic freeze, lake effect snow falls, torrential rains, flash flood warnings and other nature's own seasons...more

Published on 2014-11-30 14:53:39

So yeah, it has been almost 7 months  since my last post.To my defense, conditions have sucked and although I dove twice in March, I also got lazy.An...more

Published on 2015-06-27 22:13:39

It was supposed to be the end of the world.Depending on the weather forecast agency you looked at, doom was upon us, or at least some pretty nasty con...more

Published on 2015-07-21 08:38:40

Last Friday, my buddy convinced me to take time off work and go diving Catalina Island on the Magician. With epic conditions reported every day, I was...more

Published on 2015-09-28 23:31:05

It was Pirate Week again!Just like in 2013, I went to Grand Cayman for a short week of pirate-inspired fun. On land: rum, friends, ships, Jolly Roger...more

Published on 2015-11-29 12:39:44

It's been about 6 months since my last dive in Laguna Beach. The conditions have been terrible, thanks to El Niño which has warmed up the Pacific las...more

Published on 2016-03-27 23:36:17

A couple of weeks ago I took off for Cabo San Lucas, a small  highly Americanized tourist town at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Mexico.  ...more

Published on 2016-06-04 21:33:12

It's been more than a year since my last post here and it's not because I moved to the Midwest or (worse) back to Europe, it's not because I have been...more

Published on 2017-07-28 20:57:50

Two weeks ago, after my dives at Shaw's Cove where visibility was not the greatest but critter fest was on, I thought I would dive again the next day....more

Published on 2017-08-12 18:59:51

Of the three islands I have been to in Hawaii, the Big Island is most definitely my favorite. Not only is the diving awesome, the rest is fantastic: w...more

Published on 2017-09-10 16:39:08

While most of the country was struggling with arctic bomb cyclones, I spent New Year in Maui, where the temperature was a mild 78F (26°C) and the wa...more

Published on 2018-01-16 00:15:30

After multiple attempts at the Caribbean, the waters around the islands of Hawaii, our local (depleted) kelp forests and a few trips to the Sea of Cor...more

Published on 2018-07-01 18:28:37

Magicseaweed listed surf at 1ft this week-end. They were wrong. But I did not know that when I packed my gear this Sunday morning and headed to Laguna...more

Published on 2018-08-05 18:56:53

The reports had been stellar for over two weeks with visibility in the 30 to 40 ft on most of our local beach dive sites so I was not going to miss an...more

Published on 2018-11-19 00:53:06

I can't believe I have been out of the water for so long!Our conditions here in Laguna Beach suck balls massively, with storm after storm causing some...more

Published on 2019-06-08 17:38:22

So last month we went on a trip to Maui to hike and dive. Hiking was awesome, the Waihe'e Ridge Trail is a challenging hike but we were lucky enough w...more

Published on 2019-09-23 00:23:47

This is this time of the year again, the leafs are turning a very special kind of red here in California with all our wildfires, but the pumpkins are ...more

Published on 2019-10-28 23:38:48

So yeah, life kind of blows right now. But, hey, at least I'm not stuck in a 1 bedroom apartment in a hot zone with travel restrictions and no access ...more

Published on 2020-07-19 03:10:58

I'm bored. I don't get enough dives and working from home all day wears me out.    So, what better times to update this already awesome...more

Published on 2020-07-22 00:22:28

Yesterday was Halloween, a blue moon, a micro moon and other weirdass things. But the whole week had seen reports of stellar visibility in Laguna Beac...more

Published on 2020-11-01 18:12:27

T'was the Monday before Christmas 2020, Magicseaweed had a zero foot surf in its forecast and Facebook dive reports were taunting everyone with promis...more

Published on 2020-12-22 18:16:44

A month or so ago I asked GPT-3, the most powerful textual AI in the world to generate a dive report for me based on the  one I posted last December....more

Published on 2021-06-12 00:02:30

This was my third trip to La Paz, Mexico, a quiet town in the middle of Baja California Sur, the peninsula that extends into the pacific starting righ...more

Published on 2021-12-07 19:28:55

While I was having fun with sea lions in La Paz, reports of local conditions in Laguna Beach were showing a major improvement in both surf and visibil...more

Published on 2021-12-09 21:38:56

Cozumel is a special place for me. I got bent the first time I dove there and every time I had come back this had been on my mind. A bit. With age, I...more

Published on 2022-07-28 22:04:57

Living in Southern California, Hawaii is a favorite destination: it's only 5 hours away, jet lag is not too bad, only 3 hours and the island offers qu...more

Published on 2022-09-03 19:03:45

The last time I dove Mountain Street was in September 2016 and my dive log reads "NOTHING, MEGA AWFUL" in all caps. I think I remember that dive. I us...more

Published on 2022-09-17 20:06:02

Conditions have been absolutely dramatically utterly bad over the last few months. It sucks because September to December is usually when we get our b...more

Published on 2022-10-23 20:50:51