Open Dive Sites

10/24/2025

Love seeing my work next to

07/20/2025

"Research" trip

07/19/2025

Field research day

12/14/2024

There's still time to get your loved one the best guide to Monterey.
Most likely available at


Or else order a copy online from at www.mapcenter.com

12/01/2024

Surely you don't ALL live in there?

05/12/2024

It's here! Look for it this week at Aquarius Dive Shop, Monterey Bay Scuba, Pacific Scuba Divers, Diver Dan's and Marin Diving Center. The new issue has new text, revised Field Guide and a special page for diving with sea otters.

The definitive guide to enjoying the Monterey Peninsula under the waves. Snorkelers, free divers and scuba divers alike will find full page, full color maps of all the best dive sites with text descriptions, parking information and field guide. First released in 2021 and reprinted three times since,

07/17/2023

750 copies sold and this is all that's left unclaimed. I'd love to get the last couple of batches into the hands of some new shops- hit me up of if you have any leads. I'll probably do a second printing in December so let me know if I missed or need to update anything before I go back to the printers.

Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm- it's been so much fun to do all this with you all. Drop a comment if you used any of these maps to go someplace new or see something you otherwise would have missed!

07/13/2023

New poster of La Jolla and Scripps Canyon

Scripps Canyon is one of the most studied marine canyons in the world, owing to proximity to the eponymous oceanographic institute. But before the canyon was mapped with sonar, La Jolla Cove was already a diving destination. Modern diving began here and th

01/12/2023

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January’s speaker: Andrew Middleton - Mapping Monterey. 7pm Friday via Zoom. Andrew has been making maps of the seafloor around Monterey since 2016 and he released his first atlas this year. So how do cartographers like Andrew make maps in the 21st century and why is it so difficult on Earth's last frontier? Andrew will talk about the history of marine geography, transoceanic cables, tectonic plates and the cutting edge of satellites and remote sensing that help us explore in new, drier ways. Andrew Middleton is a cartographer and Geospatial Information Systems specialist with ten years of experience making maps. He's also an Advanced Open Water and former Reefcheck diver who is thoroughly in love with diving in Monterey. Self publishing "Diving Monterey: an Atlas" was only a matter of time.
When he's not making maps or teaching GIS, he flies kites, writes and cohosts the podcast Measure for Measure. He lives in Oakland.

01/04/2023

Santa Cruz Natural History Museum gift shop now has Diving Monterey! They're the first retail outlet to stock it that isn't a dive shop.

12/30/2022

At Pacific Ocean Water Sports we are known for our innovation in diving, testing and promoting new products that hit our SCUBA market every year.

This month we are featuring the latest Monterey Bay SCUBA diving guide created and produced by local cartographist Andrew Middleton (in the picture).
The guides sold very well over Christmas!

So many times we have heard "we are tired of diving the same dive site" or "we wish we knew other good dive spots"....well, wish no more!
This guide features the main dive sites in Monterey Bay, from Del Monte Beach down to Point Lobos, with great graphics and mapping of the entrances and exits to conduct shore diving in our area.

There are a few guides left and we will be open Friday 12/30/22 from 11am to 7pm and Saturday 12/31/22 from 11am until 5pm, closed on 1/1/2023 and open again on 1/2/2023.
Come get yours before the year ends!

Happy New Year everyone!

12/16/2022

I'll be selling Diving Monterey atlases at Steele's Discount Scuba on their last open day. Come by and celebrate with us!