Amigos Del Mar is a Northeren California dive club based in the heart of Silicon Valley. Recent activities have included trips to Cabo San Lucas, Honduras and the Channel Islands. Members try to organizes a local dive at least once a month .
Andrea's Aquatics is a small, friendly dive school in California's San Francisco Bay area. They offer PADI certification classes, from basic Open Water to Divemaster, as well as many specialty courses. Prices are inexpensive and all-inclusive, and class size is kept small.
B.E.N.T. Dive Club , or Beyond Environs of Normal Terrestrials, is based in Signal Hill, California, and was created in 1988 to provide an easy, exciting, and cost-effective way for active divers to meet new friends, develop new interests, and dive a wide range of outstanding locations, both locally and globally. In addition to monthly trips to one or more of the beautiful Channel Islands, the club has visited such world-class destinations as Palau, Belize, Roatan, the Cayman Islands, Cozumel, and La Paz, to name a few. Camping trips feature group excursions to various locales in Baja California, Catalina, and other sites along the California coast.
Cen Cal -- Central California Council of Diving Clubs is comprised of and supported by many dive clubs located in Northern and Central California. In this manner, the scuba and skindiving community presents a united front for the betterment of diving that otherwise cannot be achieved.
Diving Singles Club is a dynamic group of men and women in the Silicon Valley area of Northern California who are single (unmarried) and who love to SCUBA dive. They do several dives in the Monterey area each month, as well as many other interesting nondiving activities, including: hikes, bike rides, wine tasting, houseboat trips, potlucks, white water rafting, parties, and more.
Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART) is a non-profit, all volunteer organization whose primary mission is to save lives and recover property from the various lakes and waterways in and around Sacramento County, California. They accomplish this mission through numerous rescue, recovery and prevention activities. In this capacity, DART responds to more than 100 events each year.
JAWS , or Just Add Water, Sonoma, is a low-key dive club for friendly enthusiasts in Sonoma County, California. Members get together to discuss diving, meet new dive buddies, plan dive trips, and watch presentations, videos, or slide shows. There's also a regularly scheduled club dive held once every month.
Kubu Chindogu Divers are just a group of Northern California scuba divers who like to dive. It's that simple. They don't have a regular meeting place. They don't have a regular meeting time. Membership fees? Ha! Forget about it. Basically, they send each other e-mail simply asking, "Wanna dive this week?"
Monterey Peninsula Underwater Photographers meet at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in Monterey, California the first Friday of every month. Guest speakers to date have included: Howard & Michelle Hall, Chris Newbert, Ernie Brooks, Burt Jone & Maurine Shimlock, Jay Ireland, Norbert Wu, Chuck Davis and Clay Wiseman. Please join us.
Northern California Underwater Photographic Society , based in San Francisco, California, is a nonprofit educational organization formed to promote interest in underwater photography. Each month they have speakers on a variety of subjects concerning diving and photography, and usually will have a slide show or multiimage presentation. The club also engages in local and Southern California dives, tropical vacation trips, sessions on photography, and a host of additional activities planned by the club members.
Northern California Underwater Photographic Society , based in San Francisco, California, is a nonprofit educational organization formed to promote interest in underwater photography. Each month they have speakers on a variety of subjects concerning diving and photography, and usually will have a slide show or multiimage presentation. The club also engages in local and Southern California dives, tropical vacation trips, sessions on photography, and a host of additional activities planned by the club members.
San Francisco Reef Divers is a dive club established as a meeting place for divers of all abilities with the emphasis on safety and fun.
Members of the Santa Clarita Dive Club receive discounts on air fills, dive equipment, repairs, classes, rentals and boat charters. A buddy roster is published three times a year, and members also enjoy a monthly newsletter, entertaining and informative monthly meetings, club dives and monthly raffles.
Scuba Diving Explorer Post 265 is a Boy Scouts Of America scuba diving post located in Vacaville, California. The post is a few years old, and every year takes a scuba trip to an exotic location. Previous trips have been Cozumel, Mexico (in 1995 and 1997) and Honduras (1996). The post is oriented to help scuba divers over 14 years of age experience the best of the sport at an affordable rate.
Vaqueros Del Mar Skin and Scuba Diving Club of Livermore, California was formed more than 40 years ago with the stated purposes '...to encourage skin diving, spear fishing and underwater sightseeing for the love of the sport..., to establish training programs to ensure safe practice..., to promote fellowship, sociability and cooperation..., and to promote public good will towards skin diving...' Four decades later VDM remains true to these founding principles. Their site includes their annual calendar of events, photo geeks, scheduled boat dives, their club roster, and more.
Zen Diving Organization of San Francisco, California, is a group organized for the practice of ZenScuba. ZEN D.O. was formed by the late Sosueme Kabuki Roshi who felt the west was ready for Buddhist Diving Techniques. (He also mentioned something about the favorable exchange rates and mumbled something about the statue of limitations running out. During his lifetime, he created the San Francisco Zen 'n' Dive Centers as the retail outlets of Zen D.O. and he also founded TossYourHara Instructor Development Monastery and Sea Sickness Treatment Center. Read an excerpt from 'Zen Mind, Underwater Gold Mine,' find out about the Buddah Of The Deep and more!
