Vlad Ilinsky

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Underwater and Videography

  Interested in underwater photography and or videography???  Our speakers for June are experts in both and will fill us in on some techniques, skills, equipment and how to’s of underwater imaging.  Nanette and Bil Van Antwerp are avid scuba divers who  travel all over the world in search of great diving. Luckily, they find […]

Green Abalone Restoration Project

      Our May Speaker is one of our very favorite Speakers, Nancy L. Caruso, Marine Biologist. She is quite a celebrity, not only locally, but all of Southern California, She will be speaking on the subject of the Green Abalone Restoration Project. Nancy is a Virginia native with  a B.S in Marine Biology […]

Laguna Ocean Foundation’s tidepool education program

Gerald Winkel is an avid local diver and has conducted over 350 dives in California alone and is part of REEF’s West Coast Advanced Assessment Team. Besides REEF, he is an active volunteer for Reef Check, Disabled Veterans Scuba Project, Diveheart, Laguna Ocean Foundation and the Catalina Marine Society and assists local universities in data […]

Technical Diving-Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)

Karim Hamza is our featured speaker in March. He will be talking abut Technical Diving as taught by Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). Co-owner of Hollywoodivers, Karim Hamza started diving in 1999 off Catalina island. Over the years Karim became a NAUI, PADI, SDI, TDI, NAUITEC, PADI TECREC, HSA, and GUE instructor. He is an avid […]

Fins attached

  Trisha Tyler, Fins Attached Director of Operations, The mission of Fins Attached is to conduct research, promote conservation and provide education for the protection of marine ecosystems.  The health of any ecosystem is controlled largely by its apex predators.  So, while our work aims to impact the marine ecosystem as a whole, much of […]

Aqua Lung

Our Speaker for January will be a representative from Aqua Lung will talk to us about all the new equipment available and what is coming down the pike. Aqua Lung is the name that first introduced the world to Scuba diving in 1943 when Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan developed the first “Aqua-Lung.” The excitement […]

Ghostfishing.org

  “Derelict fishing gear, sometimes referred to as “ghost gear,” is any discarded, lost, or abandoned, fishing gear in the environment. This gear continues to fish and trap animals, entangle and potentially kill marine life, smother habitat, and act as a hazard to navigation. Derelict fishing gear, such as nets or traps and pots, is […]

Semi-Closed and Closed Circuit Rebreathers

  Ray Bullion is the owner of Ray Bullion Sports, a manufacturers representative for a variety of SCUBA manufacturers. Ray is a retired US Navy Senior Chef Petty Office and an Eagle Scout. The highlight of his Navy days would be being part of the crew that re-commissioned the USS Missouri BB-63 in 1986. For their first cruise […]

Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Facility at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Cener

The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber is dedicated to the promotion of underwater diving safety and treatment of Southern California diving casualties and is part of the University of Southern California, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization: The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber’s primary mission is the treatment of scuba diving casualties, and to this end the organization maintains […]

Reef.org

REEF (www.reef.org) provides an easy, free and fun way of getting your fins wet AND collecting meaningful data which is then provided to a variety of groups such as REEF members, the general public, and several conservation groups and management agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Park Service, and the […]

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