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Recreation, Outdoors, Scuba Diving, Regional, North America, United States, California
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- Official home page for MBNMS. Information on research, education and for visitors, including kayaking and diving.
- Official site of CINMS. Information, maps, photos on the Channel Islands.
- Links to some liveaboard dive boats with multiple day dive trips.
- San Diego based dive club affiliated with Ocean Enterprises; organizes local shore dives, boat dives, and other diving trips.
- SCUBA instruction in Oceanside since 1964. NASDS affiliated dive store and ANDI Safe Air / Nitrox Facility.
- PADI SCUBA instruction, course schedules, staff biographies
- San Diego Scuba instructor offering nitrox,wreck diving,deep diver,and advanced PADI certifications in and around San Diego's wreck alley.
- Scuba diving lessons, sales, and trips in Visalia.
- Dive training in Huntington Beach.
- Great white shark diving expeditions to the Farallon Islands from San Francisco or to Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico from San Diego.
- Sausalito scuba diving center offering retail sales, equipment service, rentals, and 5-Star PADI Certification classes.
- SCUBA diving club based in Monterey. Diving related travel, instruction, photos and video.
- Dive conditions for the Monterey and Carmel area
- Offers PADI courses group, semi-private and private in Burbank. Boat charters, sales and equipment service. Nitrox fills available.
- Private and semi private PADI scuba instruction by San Diego Instructor Jeff Moore.
- A dive store in San Carlos. Classes, travel, on-line book catalog.
- Non-commercial club for SCUBA divers who want to dive Southern California and the world at low cost.
- Full service retail dive facility in Crestview. Includes classes, charters, and trips.
- Orange County Dive Store, with equipment and supplies for all levels of divers, including rebreathers, and Enriched air Nitrox, and monthly dive trips.
- A non-profit recreational SCUBA diving club in Southern California that schedules 12+ dives a year on the Great Escape and Peace Dive Boats.
- Private PADI instructor serving Patterson, Modesto, and Turlock areas offering flexible scheduling for courses.
- Scuba and snorkel dive instruction, tours, and boat dives in San Diego.
- Dive store in Arcadia. Class schedules, charters, travel.
- Wings Stocks technical diving instruction, charters, and diving servicesin Monterey Bay. Deep, mixed gas, and rebreather technologies are a specialty.
- Dive charters from Monterey. Operates two dive boats - Cypress Sea and Cypress Point - doing day trips in Monterey, Carmel and the Big Sur coast. Schedules on-line.
- Six Pack dive boat operating from San Pedro. Visits oil rigs, Catalina, Santa Barbara, San Clemente, and San Nicolas Islands. Features shark cage dives.
- NAUI Scuba Diving lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area plus information on dive sites from Mendocino to Monterey Bay.
- Full service dive center in San Bruno, classes from beginning to pro, family and kids programs, and Nitrox
- A dive store in Santa Clara. Classes, travel, seminars, equipment.
- A full service and technical dive shop near Universal Studios in Hollywood.
- Dive store in Mountain View. Class schedules, rentals, gear, travel.
- Dive charters from Ventura. The liveaboard dive boat Peace dives the Channel Islands. Schedule on-line.
- A full-service scuba shop in Vacaville, with sales, rentals, and lessons.
- Guided scuba & boat tours, new & rental scuba gear. Located on the breakwater in Monterey
- San Diego technical dives and dive training.
- A few lobster pictures and links to Sport Chalet.
- Contains a plethora of information pertaining to scuba diving in and around San Diego.
- Three San Diego dive boats; CV Dn'DII (One Eyed Jack), CV Ocean Express, CV Molly Anna with dives to wreck alley, the Yukon, kelp forests, and the Coronado islands.
- National Weather Service's site collecting coastal and offshore marine forecasts, buoy reports, tide tables, and swell and wave models for Los Angeles Area and Southern California coast.
- Diving in the Santa Barbara Channel. Commentary on Catalina and Anacapa Islands, dive instruction, the diving industry, wreck diving, and state of the aquatic environment.
- Independent instructors teaching the YMCA SCUBA program for all levels of recreational diving in silicon valley.
- Pacific Great White Sharks Expeditions off the coast of California and Mexico.
- SSI/ANDI training from Open Water Diver to Professional Diving Instructor, Rebreather thru Trimix. SSA has a heated pool, mixing facilities, repair center, and retail store.
- Complete NASDS training and a good selection of quality diving equipment. EAN-Nitrox training and fills, monthly boat diving trips.
- Underwater photos, video clips and trip reports from around the world but with a focus on Monterey.
- Laguna Beach California - Current dive conditions, dive sites, instruction, sales, rentals, repair within walking distance from Shaw's Cove.
- Offers a full range of PADI scuba diving training programs including combination home-study and on site-training classes.
- Guide to diving in the Point Lobos State Reserve just south of Carmel. Rules and regulations, dive spots, reservations.
- NAUI Scuba diving lessons, refresher courses, and Monterey Bay dive tours; San Jose bay area.
- Full service dive center located in Venice Beach.
- PADI SCUBA Diving Instruction in Patterson, Modesto, Tracy, and Turlock
- diving hints and dive site descriptions
- Established in 1954. Provides basic and advanced training. ADP (advanced) starts Summers and UICC (Instructor)in winters.
- Map of dive sites and some underwater photos.
- Single and Multi-day Southern California Channel Island scuba diving trips departing from San Pedro. Great meals, air cylinders, and weight belts included, Air conditioned, EAN-Nitrox refills available. Schedule on-line.
- Sacramento based dive club, since 1981.
- Dive charters from Santa Barbara. Operates three liveaboard dive boats - Truth, Conception and Vision - doing overnight trips to the Channel Islands. Schedules on-line.
- Full service, fully certified Riverside dive shop. Weekly trips to Southern California Channel Islands and exotic multi-day liveaboard dive trips. Training, new/used equipment.
- a dynamic group of men and women in the Silicon Valley area of California who are single (unmarried) and who love to SCUBA dive.
- Live-Aboard and single day dive trips to US and Mexican waters aboard the Horizon and Ocean Odyssey departing from San Diego. Many trips to San Clemente Island. Schedules on-line.
- NAUI scuba diving classes and training in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Dive charter boat in Monterey. Day trips in Monterey and Carmel area. Schedule on-line.
- San Diego scuba diving information: Fish photo ID guide, dive site guide and maps, and current conditions reports.
- Carry and service new and used underwater photo and video equipment. Distributors of Top Dawg video housings. Located in Monterey.
- Meet the Great White and Pacific Blue shark in the safety of unique diving cage near the Farallon Islands, off San Francisco.
- Dive training and support services, located in Monterey, specializing in advanced dive/rescue medicine support and training. Also offering basic scuba courses and guided tours of the Monterey National Marine Sanctuary.
- Retail dive store in San Jose. Class schedules, specials, trips.
- San Diego SCUBA, kayak, and snorkeling instruction/tours in english or german.
- Offers Scuba classes, gear, charters, boat trips, special events, swimming, surfing, kayaks, tanks, regulators, BCDs, Wetsuits, Drysuits, SSI, NAUI, and discounts.
- Comparison table of all California dive boats with links, phone numbers, location, size, air fills, bunks, heads, showers, and other features.
- PADI dive training, equipment sales, and Monterey Bay guided tours.
- A general sporting goods and dive store chain in Southern California. Gear, rentals, classes, local charters. Online sales of dive gear.
- PADI SCUBA diving lessons and certifications, air fills, SCUBA equipment rentals, repairs, and sales, in Burlingame
- General information about boat diving in Southern California
- Publication dedicated to California Scuba Diving Since 1984 and sponsor of annual Long Beach SCUBA Show
- Includes a large collection of underwater photos, and the California Scuba Diving BBS which is a forum for the culture, history, sea life, practice, and experience of California diving, and diving conditions.
- A dive store with locations in San Francisco and Monterey. Classes, trip schedules.
- 25 year old non-profit community sports club dedicated to the safe practice of SCUBA and free diving located in San Francisco.
- Retail dive centers offering equipment sales, classes, repairs, rentals and dive travel.
- A Full Service PADI SCUBA Shop in El Cajon.
- dive trips from Long Beach, California to sites including Catalina, Santa Barbara, and San Clemente, San Nicolas islands, Tanner, Cortes, and Farnsworth Banks, Begg Rock, oil rigs, deep reef, kelp forest, and wreck dives. Schedule on-line.
- John Martin, Scuba Schools International Instructor in Madera, Fresno, and Visalia.
- Professional Full-Service Dive Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Classes/Trips/Rentals/Repair.
- Full Service Dive Center in San Gabriel. Scuba Diving Lessons, dive travel, and a full line of dive gear. California Dive Charters on the Great Escape and Peace and organized dive trips to exotic destinations. In both English and Chinese.
- Dive shop in Santa Barbara, California, gateway to the Channel Islands.
- PADI diver training, links, divemaster services, and travel.
- Bakersfield dive club with regular meetings, activities, and dive trips.
- This site pulls together in one place the most useful pages for predicting Monterey sea conditions.
- A small underwater photo gallery, a good assortment of Monterey and SF Bay Area dive links, and assorted other diving links.
- California shark scuba diving and snorkeling adventures open to everyone using a floating shark cage.
- Scuba diving classes and store in San Diego
- Detailed descriptions of 33 California Scuba and Skin diving locations in Mendocino, Sonoma, and Monterey counties.
- Sacramento scuba equipment dealer. Mares, xcel wetsuits, Dive rite, Nitrox, and all levels of training.
- Full service scuba diving facility in So. Laguna, So. Orange County. Equipment, rental, dive trips, and EAN-Nitrox training facility.
- DIR dive club for recreational and technical scuba diving.
- Scuba lessons in Southern California in your home or office.
- Index to current on-line diving resources for Los Angeles county and Southern California. Additional pages covering Northern, Central and Baja California.
- One of San Francisco Bay area's oldest dive clubs. Diver training, boat trips, underwater photography and special events.
- A full service dive shop in Pacifica, offering Classes, a warm indoor heated pool, Sales, rentals, repairs, airfills & service!
- San Diego Mission Bay San Diego dive boat, 28' with Nitrox. Dive trips to the kelp beds, wreck alley including the Yukon, and the Coranado Islands.
- A Santa Cruz dive shop with in store and online equipment sales, instruction and exotic dive travel.
- SSI dive training, SCUBA equipment, individual attention.
- Promoting education about and conservation of the marine environment through exposure by diving.
- Sonoma County California Dive club. Monthly newsletter, pictures and stories of diving the North Coast of California including Abalone and Halibut dives.
- A San Francisco East Bay SCUBA diving club based with meetings in Orinda.
- NAUI/PADI instructor of beginning and advanced certification classes in Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park and Novato.
- General news and advice on SCUBA diving with an emphasis on Southern California divers.
- With a 6-diver-max, Sanctuary makes relaxed, unhurried visits to all the pristine sites of Monterey, Carmel and the Big Sur coast. All rental gear is available on request.
- Travel organization in Sausalito. Includes biography of trip leaders, expeditions, and adventure stories.
- A dive store with two locations in Monterey. Rentals, dive guides, classes.
- A dive store in San Jose. Class schedules, activities, travel, gear, rentals.
- SSI dive training, SCUBA diving equipment sales and rentals, delivery to Ventura dive boats, and dive travel. Located in Ventura
- Southern California Diving. Live-aboard dive boat trips to the channel islands. Unlimited air refills, buffet meals, U.S. Coast Guard certified, single and multi-day trips. Schedule on-line.
- Programs and training in dive medicine, commercial diving, non destructive testing (NDT) and hyperbaric medicine.
- Group and private PADI SCUBA diving lessons in Carlsbad
- Charter Dive Boat based in San Pedro, California
- Northern California kelp forest divemaster-led beach dives. Ocean activist links, NoCal White Shark incidents, CD-ROM of Hawaii marine life.
- Coastal Scuba Diving resource page.
- Water/weather/waves, UCSD scuba club, stores, sites, and grunion run prediction.
- Full service dive shop in Monterey with guided dives.
- Single and multi day dive trips to Catalina and the Southern Channel Islands, including San Clemente, Santa Barbara, and Farnsworth Banks. Schedule on-line.
- Monterey California Dive Charters on the "Escapade" which visits all the premier sites of Monterey and Carmel.
- Marina Del Rey scuba instructor and group dive trips.
- Discussion group for a California Kelp Divers
- Live-Aboard dive boat operating from Long Beach. Visits Channel Islands, Cortes Bank, Begg Rock. Schedule on-line.
- PADI scuba diving school based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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