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A brand new atlas with 9 full color, glossy pages is now available. You can get one at our event or at any of these Bay Area retail locations: Bay Area dive shop near you, visit The Map Center or check out RedBubble to browse maps and graphics available as posters, towels and other great products. Lastly, you can see a video about how the Point Lobos map was created in this YouTube Video from the Point Lobos Foundation [Other inquiries can be sent to opendivesites@gmail.com

Welcome!

ODS is a community-maintained, open database of scuba and free diving sites and dive maps for the California Coast. Feel free to edit pages to include more up to date or relevant information, or to share your knowledge! As always, have fun diving! (Incomplete sites in red. If you want to make a new site, please list it here and read the Contributing Guide beforehand, adhering to its guidelines. Thank you!)

All contributors, readers, and community members agree to abide by our Code of Conduct.

You can use this Map to help you explore all of the Open Dive Sites in California.

Raw mapping data for the seafloor can be found at the California Seafloor Mapping Project.

Help us keep our map current and up to date! Click here to add or edit any map information. Are we missing your favorite spot? Use this blank template page to copy and paste into a new page. Template Page

Monterey Bay

Welcome to the Monterey Bay!

Water Quality reports from Monterey County

British Columbia

Washington

Oregon

Humboldt

Mendocino

Sonoma

Lake Tahoe

Central Coast

Santa Barbara County

Los Angeles County

Orange County

San Diego County

Welcome to San Diego County!

Baja

Florida

Zeeland

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute and know what you want to do, please see Contributing Guide for information on how to set up pages conceptually, make an account, and jump in!

Want to help but not sure where to begin? If you know dive sites, the Monterey Area, or GIS, you can contribute! All the articles in the Needs Love category can use more information.

Editing a wiki is simple -- it's mostly plain text; just click the Edit button on the top right of the page. For most advanced formatting, see MediaWiki's Formatting Guide.


WARNING! OpenDiveSites.org is a community-run site. While we do our best to keep information up-to-date, no content on this site should be construed as authoritative, complete, or correct. Scuba or free diving and other aquatic activities are inherently dangerous and can pose a risk of injury or death; the information on this site will not mitigate that. We hope you find our information helpful, but we must never be your sole source of navigational information, awareness of dive conditions, site hazards, or legal restrictions -- it is a repository of community-submitted content, not a divemaster.