Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary:Official site of CINMS. Information, maps, photos on the Channel Islands.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:Official home page for MBNMS. Information on research, education and for visitors, including kayaking and diving.
Abreojos Diving Adventures: SCUBA diving club based in Monterey. Diving related travel, instruction, photos and video.
Absolute Adventures: Pacific Great White Sharks Expeditions off the coast of California and Mexico.
Adventure, Depth & Technology: Wings Stocks technical diving instruction, charters, and diving servicesin Monterey Bay. Deep, mixed gas, and rebreather technologies are a specialty.
Adventures in Diving: Full service scuba diving facility in So. Laguna, So. Orange County. Equipment, rental, dive trips, and EAN-Nitrox training facility.
Alacosta Divers: A San Francisco East Bay SCUBA diving club based with meetings in Orinda.
Aloha Dive: SCUBA diving instruction, equipment sales, rental and repair, on-site pool, children's programs, technical and rebreather training.
Anacapa Dive Center: Dive shop in Santa Barbara, California, gateway to the Channel Islands.
Anderson's Scuba Diving: A full service dive shop in Pacifica, offering Classes, a warm indoor heated pool, Sales, rentals, repairs, airfills & service!
Andrea's Aquatics: PADI scuba diving school based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Anthony Wiley's Scuba Locker: 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.
Any Water Sports: A dive store in San Jose. Class schedules, activities, travel, gear, rentals.
Aqua Adventures Unlimited: Offers PADI courses group, semi-private and private in Burbank. Boat charters, sales and equipment service. Nitrox fills available.
Aqua Safaris Scuba Center: A Santa Cruz dive shop with in store and online equipment sales, instruction and exotic dive travel.
Aquarius Dive Shop: PADI dive store in Monterey. Rentals, sales, dive guides, & classes.
Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo: Carry and service new and used underwater photo and video equipment. Distributors of Top Dawg video housings. Located in Monterey.
Bamboo Reef: A dive store with locations in San Francisco and Monterey. Classes, trip schedules.
Bay Area Scuba Diving: PADI SCUBA diving lessons and certifications, air fills, SCUBA equipment rentals, repairs, and sales, in Burlingame
Blue Water Aquatics: Professional Full-Service Dive Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. Classes/Trips/Rentals/Repair.
Bottom Dwellers: John Martin, Scuba Schools International Instructor in Madera, Fresno, and Visalia.
Bottom Scratcher Diving Charters: 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.
Bubble Blower's Scuba Site: A small underwater photo gallery, a good assortment of Monterey and SF Bay Area dive links, and assorted other diving links.
California Dive Boats: Comparison table of all California dive boats with links, phone numbers, location, size, air fills, bunks, heads, showers, and other features.
California Dive Center: Full service dive center in San Bruno, classes from beginning to pro, family and kids programs, and Nitrox
California Diving News: Publication dedicated to California Scuba Diving Since 1984 and sponsor of annual Long Beach SCUBA Show
California Scuba Diving: 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.
Captain Aqua's Scuba Diving Centers: Retail dive centers offering equipment sales, classes, repairs, rentals and dive travel.
Cee Ray: Charter Dive Boat based in Long Beach
Central YMCA San Jose: Learn to SCUBA dive in our pool and Monterey Bay.
Cove Diver's Homepage: 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.
Cypress Charters: 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.
Dive Captain Ron: NAUI/PADI instructor of beginning and advanced certification classes in Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park and Novato.
Dive Central: Monterey California Dive Charters on the "Escapade" which visits all the premier sites of Monterey and Carmel.
Dive Connections: San Diego dive boats; Dn'DII (One Eyed Jack), Ocean Express, & Molly Anna with dives to wreck alley, the Yukon, kelp forests, and the Coronado islands.
Divebums: San Diego scuba diving information: Fish photo ID guide, dive site guide and maps, and current conditions reports.
Diver Dan's Wet Pleasure: A dive store in Santa Clara. Classes, travel, seminars, equipment.
Diver's Emporium: Full service retail dive facility in Crestview. Includes classes, charters, and trips.
Diving Beyond Adventures: Travel organization in Sausalito. Includes biography of trip leaders, expeditions, and adventure stories.
Diving Singles Club: a dynamic group of men and women in the Silicon Valley area of California who are single (unmarried) and who love to SCUBA dive.
Dolphin Dive Center: Dive store in Arcadia. Class schedules, charters, travel.
Dolphin Divers of Sacramento: Sacramento based dive club, since 1981.
Eco Dive Center: Scuba diving school, dive gear rentals, sales, service and repairs, local trips, and travel in Culver City.
Elk Grove Diving Center: SSI dive training, SCUBA equipment, individual attention.
Elmesie Scuba: Dive training in Huntington Beach.
Frog Divers: Independent instructors teaching the YMCA SCUBA program for all levels of recreational diving in silicon valley.
Get Wet Scuba: Full service PADI dive shop in Plam Springs
Gilroy Scuba: PADI dive training, equipment sales, and Monterey Bay guided tours.
Glenn's Aquarius II Dive Shop: Guided scuba & boat tours, new & rental scuba gear. Located on the breakwater in Monterey
Graf Diving: San Diego SCUBA, kayak, and snorkeling instruction/tours in english or german.
Great Escape Dive Boat: 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.
Great White Adventures: Great white shark diving expeditions to the Farallon Islands from San Francisco or to Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico from San Diego.
Great White Shark Encounter: Meet the Great White and Pacific Blue shark in the safety of unique diving cage near the Farallon Islands, off San Francisco.
Harbor Dive Center: Sausalito scuba diving center offering retail sales, equipment service, rentals, and 5-Star PADI Certification classes.
Holk's San Diego Scuba Pages: Water/weather/waves, UCSD scuba club, stores, sites, and grunion run prediction.
Hollywood Divers: A full service and technical dive shop near Universal Studios in Hollywood.
Horizon Charters: 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.
Jesse's dive reports: Dive conditions for the Monterey and Carmel area
Laguna Sea Sports: Laguna Beach California - Current dive conditions, dive sites, instruction, sales, rentals, repair within walking distance from Shaw's Cove.
Lois Ann Dive Charters: 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.
Los Angeles County Scuba Diving Resources: Index to current on-line diving resources for Los Angeles county and Southern California. Additional pages covering Northern, Central and Baja California.
Los Angeles County Underwater Instructor Association: Established in 1954. Provides basic and advanced training. ADP (advanced) starts Summers and UICC (Instructor)in winters.
Los Angeles Scuba Diving: PADI SCUBA instruction, course schedules, staff biographies
Manta Ray Dive Center: Full service dive shop in Monterey with guided dives.
Marin Dive Center: in San Rafael; Scuba diving lessons, equipment sales, rentals, service, and air fills. Providing family friendly service for 30 years. Heated pool and state of the art classroom on site.
Marine Weather - NWS Los Angeles Area: 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.
Mitchell Scuba College: NAUI Scuba Diving lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area plus information on dive sites from Mendocino to Monterey Bay.
Monterey Bay Dive Center: provides equipment sales, service, rentals, airfills, SCUBA lessons, and underwater tours. Located on Cannery Row, one block from the Breakwater and San Carlos Beach.
Monterey Express: Dive charter boat in Monterey. Day trips in Monterey and Carmel area. Schedule on-line.
Monterey Sea Conditions at a Glance: This site pulls together in one place the most useful pages for predicting Monterey sea conditions.
Northern California Scuba Diving: diving hints and dive site descriptions
Ocean Adventures Dive Company: Full service dive center located in Venice Beach.
Ocean Enterprises: SCUBA Diving, training, gear, vacations, and equipment in San Diego.
Ocean Explorers Society: San Diego based dive club affiliated with Ocean Enterprises; organizes local shore dives, boat dives, and other diving trips.
Ocean Safari Scuba: 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.
Openwater Habitat Marine School: Orange County Dive Store, with equipment and supplies for all levels of divers, including rebreathers, and Enriched air Nitrox, and monthly dive trips.
Orca Bob's Scuba: PADI SCUBA Diving Instruction in Patterson, Modesto, Tracy, and Turlock
Pacific Coast Divers: Non-commercial club for SCUBA divers who want to dive Southern California and the world at low cost.
Pacific Diving: PADI diver training, links, divemaster services, and travel.
Pacific Offshore Divers: Retail dive store in San Jose. Class schedules, specials, trips.
Pacific Reef Scuba: A full-service scuba shop in Vacaville, with sales, rentals, and lessons.
Pacific Scuba Center: Full service dive shop located in Oxnard.
Peace Dive Boat: Dive charters from Ventura. The liveaboard dive boat Peace dives the Channel Islands. Schedule on-line.
Peace Scuba Center: SSI dive training, SCUBA diving equipment sales and rentals, delivery to Ventura dive boats, and dive travel. Located in Ventura
Peninsula Diving Center: Dive store in Mountain View. Class schedules, rentals, gear, travel.
Pioneer SCUBA: Stock and Custom Stainless Steel Spring Fin Straps
Point Lobos State Reserve: Guide to diving in the Point Lobos State Reserve just south of Carmel. Rules and regulations, dive spots, reservations.
Psalty V: Six Pack dive boat operating from San Pedro. Visits oil rigs, Catalina, Santa Barbara, San Clemente, and San Nicolas Islands. Features shark cage dives.
Raptor - Dive Charters: 46' dive boat berthed in Ventura Harbor
Redwood Empire Divers Dive Club: Sonoma County California Dive club. Monthly newsletter, pictures and stories of diving the North Coast of California including Abalone and Halibut dives.
San Diego Excellent Adventures: Dive instruction and guides in San Diego.
San Diego Underwater Explorers: DIR dive club for recreational and technical scuba diving.
San Francisco Reef Divers Sport Diving Club: 25 year old non-profit community sports club dedicated to the safe practice of SCUBA and free diving located in San Francisco.
San Francisco Scuba Schools: Offers a full range of PADI scuba diving training programs including combination home-study and on site-training classes.
Sanctuary Dive Boat: 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.
Sand Dollar Dive Boat (Diving Charters, Inc.): 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.
SanDiegoDiving.com: Promoting education about and conservation of the marine environment through exposure by diving.
Scuba Center Temecula: A full service sucba diving center; PADI courses, Equipment Sales, and Service.
Scuba Crossing: Private and semi private PADI scuba instruction by San Diego Instructor Jeff Moore.
Scuba Diving in San Diego: Contains a plethora of information pertaining to scuba diving in and around San Diego.
Scuba San Francisco: Detailed descriptions of 33 California Scuba and Skin diving locations in Mendocino, Sonoma, and Monterey counties.
Scuba San Jose: NAUI Scuba diving lessons, refresher courses, and Monterey Bay dive tours; San Jose bay area.
Scuba Schools of America (Montclair): 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.
Scuba With Bill: General news and advice on SCUBA diving with an emphasis on Southern California divers.
Scuba World: Sacramento scuba equipment dealer. Mares, xcel wetsuits, Dive rite, Nitrox, and all levels of training.
Scubaboard: Discussion group for a California Kelp Divers
SCUBAdive4Fun: Group and private PADI SCUBA diving lessons in Carlsbad
Scubapost: Forums, galleries, a field guide and dive sites.
Sea Divers: A non-profit recreational SCUBA diving club in Southern California that schedules 12+ dives a year on the Great Escape , Peace, Pacific Star & Sea Bass Dive Boats.
Seaclypse Dive Adventures: Scuba and snorkel dive instruction, tours, and boat dives in San Diego.
Shark Adventure: Scuba diving and cage diving with Great White sharks from San Diego, California and beyond.
Shark Divers: Luxury Great White shark diving off the coast of California aboard a private yacht.
Shark Diving International: Shark Diving Adventures to all the world's premiere destinations.
South Orange County Dive Club: Monthy meetings @ Fuddruckers, Lake Forest 2nd Wednesday at 6:30 PM. Beach diving, Raftups, Boat Diving, International trips.
Sport Chalet: A general sporting goods and dive store chain in Southern California. Gear, rentals, classes, local charters. Online sales of dive gear.
Sub-Surface Progression: Dive & Surf Shop in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, Abalone Diving Equipment, Surfboards, SCUBA, & Kayak Sales and Rentals
Sundiver Charters: Single and multi day dive trips to Catalina and the Southern Channel Islands, including San Clemente, Santa Barbara, and Farnsworth Banks. Schedule on-line.
Sunfish Dive Boat: Dive the Channel Islands. 3-4 dives on open boats and Charters. Warm freshwater shower, "easy on divestep", berthed in Oxnard
Sunset Divers: NAUI scuba diving classes and training in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Taopitek: Scuba diving classes and store in San Diego
Team Shark: California shark scuba diving and snorkeling adventures open to everyone using a floating shark cage.
The Dive Shack: A Full Service PADI SCUBA Shop in El Cajon.
Truth Aquatics: Dive charters from Santa Barbara. Operates three liveaboard dive boats - Truth, Conception and Vision - doing overnight trips to the Channel Islands. Schedules on-line.
Underwater Excursions: Scuba diving lessons, sales, and trips in Visalia.
Underwater photo gallery: Underwater photos, video clips and trip reports from around the world but with a focus on Monterey.
Underwater Schools of America: SCUBA instruction in Oceanside since 1964. NASDS affiliated dive store and ANDI Safe Air / Nitrox Facility.
Vaqueros Del Mar Divers: One of San Francisco Bay area's oldest dive clubs. Diver training, boat trips, underwater photography and special events.
Wallin's Dive Center: A dive store in San Carlos. Classes, travel, on-line book catalog.
Woody Morrison dive instruction: San Diego Scuba instructor offering nitrox,wreck diving,deep diver,and advanced PADI certifications in and around San Diego's wreck alley.