@Shvonne
I totally agree with
@Trailboss123
A Catalina trip is possible but would be difficult
Beach Cities is probably your best bet-- Shaw's cove ? -- there are better coves for diving
@Scuba Lawyer was born raised in OC and is possibly the best living expert on OC diving . He is familiar with OCs contributions to national and international dive history, has dove Laguna his entire life and is one heck of a diver, a NAUI Instructor & SSI Pro 5000, and all around good guy -
Please bear in mind most popular OC dive locations are south facing beaches and summer storms are generated in the south travel up Baja slamming into OC south facing beaches and coves playing havoc on diving. Therefore you might want to consider sheltered coves
Garden Grove is just west of Anaheim .. there are several routes to Laguna beach;
Staight down Brookhurst street to PCH to Laguna beach
Freeways -- can be fast or a parking lot
Some interesting historical diving facts about Orange county (the OC!) California extracted from one of my articles from long long ago-- in the geneses of recreational diving it was ground zero for diving and diving manufacturing
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Orange County ...DID YOU KNOW....
Orange County....
A few little known facts about Orange County;
In the genesis....Orange County was the fountain head of recreational diving in California, the US and for the world.
It had the most manufactures -- US Divers, Voit, Sea Tec, Inflatable systems, JBL, Mares, Spearfisherman, Mark V, Newport divers, Sea Quest, Del Mar, Sea Suits, Water Wear, Kettenhofen Wet suits, Sampson world record spear gun , Samson (Hall) professional UW camera systems, Sea Pro, Riffe International spearguns, Alexander Spearguns, and many more lessor known and now forgotten manufactures
Divers cove/Pic nic cove was selected as the location for the world's first Competitive Spear fishing meet in 1950 and every year to the early 1960s.
Divers Cove was not named as a result of recreational diving activity
Two world record fish were speared off Orange county's coast; the white sea bass and the giant black sea bass
It's waters did contained a variety of shell fish; Mussels, Oysters, Pismo Clams, Scallops, & Lobsters
It has a train and several airplanes, an ocean going barge and several WW 11 landing craft sunk off it's coast.
It has an underwater canyon
It had the frist recreational diving ordnance in California. (Aka the Laguna beach dive ordinance)
It had one of the first California game reserves at Heisler park, named after Glen Vedder, the architect and driving force behind the Laguna beach diving ordinance.
It has a number of piers that are dive able.
PADI's first office was in Orange County.
In the genesis of instruction Orange County had more LA County Certified Underwater Instructors than LA County.
It had one of the first dive shops in California; Lyle Hoskins and sons
Three OC residents were honored as "Fathers of Spearfishing" at the 2000 Millennium Free Diving conference ( The late Ron Merker (Dr. Bill's Instructor.) Allan "Omar" Wood and Dr. Sam Miller,111).
Now you know!
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