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Dive clubs are a great way to expand your dive community, skills and experience. Follow along with one diver as she joins one of the world's largest dive clubs for an excursion off the coast of Baja California Sur.

One diver's plans to become a scientific research diver shift to harvesting urchins for a boutique market

Learning how to snag the perfect underwater photo is a challenge, but it can open you up to a whole new world of diving possibilities.

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, often described as the “Galapagos of North America,” is home to incredible marine wildlife, kelp forests, and maritime heritage artifacts, and contains waters that sustained Chumash people since time immemorial.

A team of hammer-wielding divers cull urchins off the coast of California in an effort to restore kelp forests.

it’s difficult to reconcile how the most beautiful things you have ever experienced can be the worst they’ve ever been. But the data is clear—we've lost more than we can imagine.

Sites stretch along the Golden Coast from Mendocino to Fort Ross.

These are some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world, accoridng to Scuba Diving magazine readers.