Marin Scuba Club

04/22/2026

What are you doing this Saturday? If you're a diver, snorkeler, or just love the ocean, and you're near Corte Madera, California, come by Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe between 1:00 and 3:00 pm and say Hi!
Gil Zeimer will be there at the "Local Author Book Fair" with autographed copies of his new book

02/20/2026

12/04/2025

Did you dive or snorkel on Blue Friday?

11/13/2025

What are you doing the day after Thanksgiving? Our club members don't go shopping... we go diving! Join us for Blue Friday 5.0 on Friday, November 28th.

Through our contacts, divers in dozens of countries on four continents will be getting wet in:
• Point Lobos, Carmel, California, with members of Marin Scuba Club and the Dive Club of Silicon Valley
• The Big Island of Hawai'i with Kerwin Louis and Jack's Dive Locker
• Sun Divers Roatan will host a "Dive Against Debris" at its PADI Adopt the Blue dive site, followed by a beach clean-up
• Amigos del Mar in Mahahual, Mexico, will take drift divers in the Western Caribbean
• Dive-Queensland in the Coral Sea and DivePlanit Dive Travel in Australia
• DivePacific.co.nz and the New Zealand Underwater Association (NZUA)
• Palau through NECO Marine and the Black Pearl
• High Plains Scuba Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, will take divers in a lake
• The Chicago Underseas Explorer Society will have some members take a dip in a high school pool
• Jami Leslie Feldman ( ) will dive in San Diego
• Author Jeff Bozanic will dive in CA or FL
• Author Carlos Lander will dive at Chichiriviche de la Costa in Venezuela
• Service Manager Sameer Chettri will jump into the United Arab Emirates’ warm water
• NAUI Worldwide, PADI, and CORAL.org will participate
• Finally, Marin Scuba Club, Sun Divers Roatan, Green Fins, and The Reef World Foundation have formed an alliance to ask that Green Fins’ 1,,500 dive operators worldwide participate this year.

Organize Your Own Blue Friday 5.0 Event
• Plan your dive on November 28, or any day during the last week of the month.
• Post your photos, videos, and stories on Facebook and Instagram using , , and .
• Share your posts on our page and I’ll recap all Blue Friday activities in a follow-up blog.
• And support your local dive shop––every purchase helps sustain our community throughout the year.

Together, we can make history with the largest Blue Friday event ever. For more information, visit MarinScubaClub.org/blogs.

Kenneth R. Carter

04/29/2025

Here's a story asking you to think big about a symbolic marine mammal adoption. It focuses on what Virginia Bria did after a humpback whale snorkeling trip to the Dominican Republic earlier this year.

Gil Zeimer thinks big for his latest animal asset

02/19/2025

Escape The Rat Race to Live and Work in a Pristine Paradise:
Four Job Openings in Palau

The Office of the Attorney General, Ernestine K. Rengiil, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Palau, is seeking to recruit two Assistant Attorneys General and two Division Chiefs (Criminal and Civil).

As a Freely Associated State, Palau’s legal system is largely consistent with that of the United States, and U.S.-based attorneys or those with practice experience in U.S. courts are encouraged to apply.

All positions are two-year contracts with potential for renewal, recruitment, and repatriation costs, and are located in the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Palau in Koror.

Compensation is based on experience and position type, ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 U.S., with five weeks of paid vacation and 2.5 weeks of sick leave annually.

You don’t have to be a diver to apply, but why not live and work in paradise? For details, visit:

Republic of Palau: Four Attorney Job Openings Posted on January 24, 2025February 18, 2025 by Gil Zeimer Posted in BlogsTagged Attorney Job Openings on Palau, Palau Attorney Openings, Republic of Palau Office of the Attorney General Ernestine K. Rengiil Attorney Job Openings in Paradise: Open Water D...

01/03/2025

Join us for our January 8, 2025 Meeting at the Sausalito Parks & Rec Center's Exercise Room, 420 Litho Street, Sausalito, CA 94965, 7:00 - 8:45 pm.

Ana Blanco and Steve Peletz of the International Ocean Film Foundation will present: “Ocean Conservation: Inspiring Action Through Film and Photography”. MSC will again serve appetizers, wine, cheese, and more.

11/25/2024

Defying Gravity while scuba diving is wicked fun. Let us know if you'll be diving, instead of shopping, on what is traditionally Black Friday. Blue Friday 4.0 participants so far include
• Ken Carter, Marin Scuba Club, Big Apple Divers in New York City
• Members of Marin Scuba Club and Dive Club of Silicon Valley on the Beachhopper II, Monterey, California
• Terry and Cathie Cummins of Dive Queensland at Ashmore Reef, Coral Sea, Australia
• Natalie Shuman, Owner, Sun Divers Roatan
• Kerwin Lewis, Marin Scuba Club, Blue Wilderness Divers, Big Island, Hawai’i

Most Americans can’t wait to crawl out of bed extremely early on the day after Thanksgiving and maul the malls in search of the year’s best bargains. But what if there were a healthy alternative to Black Friday shopping insanity? There is — it’s called Blue Friday, it’s now in its fourth y...

10/01/2024

You’re cordially invited to our next meeting as Dan Orr presents “Safe Diving for Seniors” via Zoom. After 60 years, no one knows more about dive safety than Dan. He’s also published more than a dozen books and over 200 articles.

Where: The Exercise Room, Sausalito Parks & Rec Center, 420 Litho Street –– and via Zoom.
(Parking map: https://marinscubaclub.org/meetings/)

When: Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 to 8:45 pm PT

Zoom Meeting Info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7983463827?pwd=UGEreEJ4VFoycmZRZ2lPWnM5NGp6dz09&omn=83794326153
Meeting ID: 798 346 3827 Passcode: 755205

09/06/2024

Join MSC on Wednesday, 9/11 from 7:00-8:45pm in the Exercise Room at the Sausalito Parks & Rec Center, 420 Litho Street, and via Zoom.

Walter Marti will present “A Decade of Blackwater Diving” will focus on how he got started in Blackwater Diving, how you can do it, where you can do it, and what can be seen.

Starting with this meeting, MSC will also serve appetizers, wine, cheese, and more.

Zoom Meeting Info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7983463827?pwd=UGEreEJ4VFoycmZRZ2lPWnM5NGp6dz09&omn=81803040410
Meeting ID: 798 346 3827
Passcode: 755205

08/21/2024

Our most recent update from this month's Club trip to Bonaire. And, we're going back next year!

MSC Bonaire Trip: July 2024 by Ken Carter Posted on August 19, 2024August 20, 2024 by Gil Zeimer Posted in UncategorizedTagged MSC Bonaire 2024 At the end of July, ten members of the Marin Scuba Club traveled to Bonaire for a family-friendly week of diving and more diving, and a little bit of doing....