Paradise Dive Club

Join us for our August club meeting tomorrow at 6:30pm Brass Bear Brewing Uptown! Information on our talk from Dr. Michelle Paddack is below—she’ll be talking about diving in Micronesia as well as introducing an opportunity for a January 2027 expedition! Come as early as 6pm to socialize and snag some raffle tickets 🎟️ can’t wait to see you all there
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Support conservation while diving gorgeous reefs! Diving in Micronesia offers an extraordinary opportunity to explore vibrant coral reefs, diverse marine life, and the close connections between island communities and the ocean. Palau established the world’s 1st shark sanctuary, allowing reefs to recover their full range of biodiversity. Join us on an Oceanic Society Expedition in January 2027 to experience these incredible reefs.

The Oceanic Society is America’s oldest non-profit organization dedicated to ocean conservation. Founded in San Francisco in 1969, it works to protect marine wildlife and habitats through research, global eco-expeditions, plastic pollution reduction, and community education programs.

For this trip, you will learn how to identify and survey sharks, reef fish, and corals & collect data to help understand and protect these beautiful and critical ecosystems. In this presentation, Dr. Michelle Paddack will share the how and why of being a citizen scientist and about diving across Micronesia.

Please join us for our July club meeting tonight at 6:30pm Brass Bear Brewing Uptown! Club member John Johnston (pictured) will be speaking about the incredible diving in Raja Ampat 🤙 Can’t wait to see you all there!

See you all for our June Tuesday club meeting at Brass Bear Brewing Uptown from 6:30-8pm! Join us to learn more about the “Finding Hal” white abalone initiative this week: This program empowers recreational divers to help locate and restore the critically endangered white abalone in Southern California. Discover how this partnership between NOAA, the Aquarium of the Pacific, and the diving community uses science to save this species from extinction 🤍

May club trip: ✔️
May club meeting: TONIGHT

Join us at Uptown from 6:30-8pm tonight to hang out, catch up, chat about diving, and hear about club member Michael Ring’s recent trip to Cozumel 🐠

Galapagos Talk from three of our club members in about hour! Hope to see you all for our monthly meeting TONIGHT from *6:30pm-8pm* Uptown 🏝️🌊

April charger was a success ✔️ We slept in, left at 8, did three awesome dives on the front side of Anacapa (90’, 60’, 45,) and were back tied up at the harbor by 3:30! 🙋‍♀️ If you want to come on adventures like this stay tuned to your inbox or DM to get signed up for our mailing list!

April charger was a success 💪 We slept in, left at 8, did three awesome dives on the front side of Anacapa (90’, 60’, 45,) and were back tied up at the harbor by 3:30! 🙋‍♀️ If you want to come on adventures like this stay tuned to your inbox or DM to get signed up for our mailing list!

Sorry for the late post folks we had a technical snafu! Nevertheless, we’re excited to have you all at our March meeting TONIGHT at Brass Bear Uptown noting our *new time* from 6:30-8pm 🌊🌊🌊

We’ll have a talk by Carol Linteau about shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, drowned forests, sinkholes, aquatic species, etc.

BEAUTIFUL first club dives of the year on the last Friday ✔️ Stay tuned for a poll in your inbox so you can help choose a date for our April trip 🛥️🤿

We had a choppy crossing with the crazy Santa Ana winds, but they should now make for some great conditions this week — get out and dive!

As usual, thanks for for capturing the vibe of the day with his excellent candid photography

Howdy PDC! Ever wanted to learn more about diving in Antarctica? 🧊 Join us tomorrow for our February club meeting featuring a talk by club member Steve Trainoff about his and club member Gretchen Beckert’s recent trip there!

They traveled with Blue Green Expeditions aboard the boat M/V Ortelius. Steve dove in the icy water and Gretchen snorkeled. As you would expect, Antarctic diving is unlike anywhere else on earth 🥶

Uptown 6-9pm you know the drill