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This online mini-course in Human Factors in Diving Safety is awesome! Perfect introduction to the behavioral skills crucial to diving safely in the ever-changing underwater environment: Human Factors Skills in Diving Online Mini-Course And for the next 4 hours the price is 50% off!!! Use code...

Got one to match? Been finning in circles looking for it? Contact me with the manufacturer name and it will come home to you! ~~~~~ Claudette

Were you diving at Casino Point on Saturday July 19th and were you suddenly too buoyant? Did you go all Columbo on your BC (pat.. Pat-pat-pat: "Dayem!"), discovering one side was measurably less bulky than the other? Contact me with an accurate description of what I found on the bottom of...

It's that time again: TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH! Last Wednesday's clean up dive was a lovely night of diving (Report HERE). CDIP is predicting that this Wednesday, December 5th, may be another smooth water night. Come on down to our favorite mudhole for another night of "Bring Out Yer...

Team Good Guy delivers again! Wednesday, November 28th, another 14 pounds of icky yucky trash gathered by about a dozen divers, donating time, gas, skill, and energy to clean up Veteran's Park. Awesome! 59lbs + 72lbs + 14lbs = 145 pounds of trash on three group dives, plus lots and lots and...

Come on out to help clean up the next section of Veteran's Park! Wednesday Nov. 21st, 7PM. Top Parking Lot. Last week's clean up dive was wildly successful, with 31 divers, full shore support, and 59 pounds of trash removed from the area directly in front of the main stairs. Surveys of the...

The third perfect SoCal day was trying to dawn as I zoomed down the freeway to meet Shawn B. in Laguna Beach. It was Scooter Day! Finally. We'd been trying to get his new Cuda 400 out to play for several weeks and today was the day! Bunches of dawn-patrol divers were all over Laguna as I...

Nate: "I'll be happy just kayaking. If we see whales, fine, but it's a gorgeous day already!" Blue whales are really big. Trying to find one in 9 square miles of sea, when sitting at the water line in 15-foot kayaks.... well, it may be the worlds biggest stitching implement but it's still a...

My brother and I had a wonderful encounter with blue whales a few miles outside of King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA. Click HERE for the full report from our Tuesday September 7, 2011 outing. Magnificent animals, even more so when one is sitting exactly at the water line in a silent kayak...

The 2011 Tahoe Benchmark was successfully completed on Friday July 29th at 5pm, as test diver Vic Erikson stepped out of the lake after the last test run. The three test divers (Alan Studley, Vic Erikson, and me (Claudette Dorsey)) safely completed: * 68 dives in Lake Tahoe * over 4...

Step up! Get your brain trained and your eyes sharpened! You Can Join the California ReefCheck Team Now! (It's a remarkable experience and will change your diving for the better.) ~~~~~ Claudette (Reef Checkin' Chica since '06) Class information HERE, or contact Laurel Fink, SoCal...

Ken and I had the fun of diving the Palawan for the first time this past Saturday, in extraordinary conditions. What a day for romping around with X-Scooters! 11:30 AM, Saturday October 10, 2009. 132fsw max depth, about 54F on the wreck. Vis at the bottom was about 50 feet... with so much...

All us SoCals know the facts: We live in Nudibranch Nirvana. Large biomass of ophistobranchs, great diversity, wandering-wonders blowing in on exotic currents.... it's a beauty pagent down there. And this year, The Slug Site has featured some of our gorgeous locals in unique photographs taken...

The 'Branch Of the Week (BOW) on the Slug Site features some gorgeous photographs from Mo2vation, and a discussion of some of the techniques. Check it out!! This week: Flyers: http://slugsite.us/bow2007/nudwk629.htm Last week: Light Table nudibranchs: http://slugsite.us/bow2007/nudwk628.htm...

Check it out!! Michael Miller has selected some extraordinary nudibranch images from Ken's gallery to kick-off the The New Year of Nudi's!! This week: Flyers: http://slugsite.us/bow2007/nudwk629.htm Last week: Light Table nudibranchs: http://slugsite.us/bow2007/nudwk628.htm...

Here's a post I made over on Dive Matrix in response to an excellent question from a local diver asking when was the best time to dive particular shore sites in Los Angeles. [Click HERE to link to the complete thread.] Currents, Tides, and Swell. Each site has a unique combination of limiting...

Mo2vation is DUI's DOG of the Week on the DUI website! Here's a direct link: Ken In DUI CF200. Nice suit! Woof. ~~~~ Claudette

Get the photographer out in front of the lens for a change :D Mo2vation is DOG of the Week on the DUI website! Here's a direct link: Ken In DUI CF200 Nice! ~~~~ Claudette

Ook-Ook! Time to Monkey dive the Big One: The Pinnacles at Marineland Point. Friday, July 4, 2008. 54 minutes underwater. 54fsw max depth. 61F at the surface, 55F below the thermoclines. Buddy: Mo2vation. As soon as Ken and I started test-flying the new DeepSeaSupply Monkey Diving rig (see...

Check out the SlugSite this week!!! Mo2vation's spectacular photograph of Berthella is splashed all over the Front Page of the site. Link HERE Mike Bartick's beautiful image of an Indonesian Doris sp. gets BOW ('Branch Of the Week) Link HERE Second time, boyos!!! SECOND TIME!!!! SoCal...