Our speaker this month will be Douglas Klug. He is a SCUBA instructor, underwater photographer, and diving writer based in Santa Barbara, California. Where he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the age of 18 and never left. Since takings his underwater breaths on certification divers at the Monterey breakwater over 35 years ago. "Diver" Doug has continued to explore California's waters as well as many other tropical waters destinations. His favorite destinations are "kelp" are the kelp forests of Southern Californias Channel Islands, but his most favorite adventure has taken him to the Sea turtles of the Hawaiian Islands, the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island, the stunning walls of the Cayman Island, the coral reefs of Fiji, and even the humpback whales of Moorea.

Dougs photo-essays have been published in print world-wide, including articles in California Diving News, DAN Alert Diver, and Dive Training. His images have also been used in numerous print and digital formats including the use by the U.S. National Park Services , US National Marine Sanctuary, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Google and Microsoft. Doug has presented for dive clubs and museums in Southern California. Doug experience includes being a recreational SCUBA instructor as well as diving with Nitrox and Rebreathers. Doug hola professional level certifications from NAUI, SSI, PADI, NASDS, and TDI. Doug also participates in volunteer scientific doing for organizations in Reefcheck. He has been a former dive shop owner and SCUBA repair technician. Doug now works as an underwater guide for divers not familiar with Southern California Diving. He also still teaches private SCUBA lessons to new divers and underwater photography skills to more seasoned divers. Doug even offers an on-line NAUI certification course on Southern Californias nudibranch identification.

Doug now splits his underwater time between taking photographs and showing new divers the underwater world. You can now view Dougs underwater work on his Instagram feed: @divindk or on Flickr at www.flickr.com/diverdoug.

This month’s meeting will be over Zoom. Members will receive an email with the instructions to join the Zoom meeting when the date gets closer. For non-members who wish to join the meeting, please email your inquiry to avdesertdive@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there!