I’m not embarrassed to admit I was severely overweight for my first 40-plus dives as an open water diver. Even the best low-fat diet wouldn’t have helped me. I needed to shed more than ten pounds of lead weight. During those first dives I discovered the aerobic side to diving — kicking constantly and struggling to stay off the bottom,Read more »...

Lionfish can reduce a flourishing coral reef to a wasteland in a matter of weeks. Native fish, unfamiliar with the new arrival, do not know to avoid it, and the predator gorges to the point of obesity. The Lionfish sits at the top of the food chain, unthreatened by any other creature. They breed rapidly, and are extremely resilient andRead more »...

Thanks to club members Scott Weber, Rex Theobald, and Gary Nugent, renewing your Barnacle Busters membership just became a whole lot easier! We now offer an online renewal option for our members. Before your membership expires, you will receive an email from us letting you know its time to renew. Within that email will be a summary of the contactRead more »...

We need to give everyone a “heads up” about a date change in the works. The Cee Ray has changed our October dive boat date from Sunday, October 22nd to Saturday, October 21st.  Our members typically prefer to dive on Saturday so that they can have Sundays free.  The date change should be good news to most of you! IfRead more »...

The fireworks started the moment we stepped aboard: eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, hot coffee and friendly greetings. This was the Barnacle Busters’ fifth Independence Day dive trip to Catalina aboard the Cee Ray. Ten club members set up their gear and settled in for the two hour trip to the island. In addition to our group, the guest list includedRead more »...

It’s certainly NOT a night of your parents’ bingo…and that’s a good thing! Hamburger Mary’s Legendary Bingo featured a very full house on Sunday the 25th. Club members and a surprising number of single women celebrating birthdays with their gal pals made sure that the house was rocking and ready to roll for the evening’s festivities. Bingo-Boy was not ableRead more »...

Well, another CSW festival has come and gone. While we’re all exhausted and ready for some relaxation, it’s hard not to be excited about how well everything went for the club. First of all, a big, hearty “Thank You” to everyone who came out to help support the club presence over the weekend. YOU are the reason we have soRead more »...

By all measures our latest SPLASH Day gathering was a huge success!  Following close on the heels of PRIDE, we managed to welcome over 60 people who were interested in diving. That is a new record for us!  Some were members (lapsed and otherwise), some were previously certified divers who just found out about us and a large number wereRead more »...

CoCo View Vernacular A strike in baseball is bad; but to a bowler, it’s good. Similarly, having an old, rusty clunker in your front yard is frowned upon, but at CoCo View having a wreck in your “front yard” is amazing Picture a landscape of aqua clear blue water, hammocks swaying in the breeze, parrots cawing in the distance, andRead more »...

Scientists are taking 3-D Printing to a whole new level. A sea turtle seriously injured in a boating collision has been given the ability to eat again — after receiving a 3D-printed prosthetic jaw. The endangered loggerhead turtle was hit by a boat propeller while swimming in its natural habitat in Turkey. As a result of its injuries, the turtle was unable toRead more »...