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UCSD offers excellent deals on scuba classes. I teach the following PADI courses: Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Emergency First Response (first aid/cpr), Rescue Diver, Divemaster, as well as a bunch of specialties: U/W Photography, Deep-, Night-, Drysuit-, NitrOx-, and Wreck-Diving; Master Scuba Diver, skin diving, as well as refresher- and area orientation courses if you haven't been diving in a while. Since I'm not in town at the moment, contact UCSD's Rimac if you are interested in any diving courses. |
| UCSD also is home of the Seadeucers scuba club, a fine bunch of divers indeed. |  |
Join us on our dives into Scripps Canyon, a boat dive on our zodiac Little Red, or on weekend excursions to Mexico. Members get free tank fills or tank rentals from my buddies at Ocean Enterprises. |
If you are into photography and want to mingle with the pros, visit the San Diego Underwater Photographic Society. It's home of some of the very best in the field, like Phillip Colla, who took the amazing kelp picture below.
Check
out weather- and
diving conditions here before you go. Also make sure to visit
the tide
calendar so u know how high you have to put your towel on the beach
:-) Pretty much all the info you'll ever need about San
Diego's Ocean (and probably quite a bit more) is hosted at this
excellent site, care of Scripp's Institute of Oceanography. It has
weather, tides, scuba & surf reports and even far out stuff like grunion
run predictions. Another good page is maintained by Virtual
Voyages.
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My bro Thorsten hanging in the Big Blue.
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See
a description of a couple of my favorite dive spots here such
as Swamis in Cardiff,
the Canyon,
Windansea, the classic La
Jolla Cove, and of course Quast
Rock (I'm not making this up) in the kelp beds off La Jolla.
More local dive site descriptions are at the
Scuba Diving in San Diego
pages,
at the UCSD's Seadeucer's
Dive Site
Line-ups,
and at John Moore's Divebums
Dive Sites
descriptions.
| Here is Stephen Pazan's map that has some spots around the La Jolla Shores reserve in it: |  |
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One of the coolest sites in town is the wreck of the Yukon. That's a big ass, 366 foot Canadian battleship that the San Diego Oceans Foundation in conjunction with some unexpected help of the ocean sank off Mission Beach shores on July 14, 2000. I was able to dive the baby the next day as a member of the inspection team and let me tell ya, it's an awesome underwater playground! |
If you're too lazy for shore diving, kicking out and tank carrying, there's
a bunch of boat charters that can take you out to places like
the Coronado
Islands off Mexican coasts or
the Point
Loma kelp beds. I've always gone out with Barry's Dive Connection/Ocean
Express, good scuba. See a list of San Diego
boats here or
go to this link for a bunch of boats
in all of California.
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All
right. That's my dive page. There's quite a number of links
in here, so if any of 'em cease working, let me know. Stay tuned
for up to date info about diving in San Diego. Until then,
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