2025 Wrap - A Big Thank You
Reflection and appreciation for our donors and supporters as we wrap 2025. See how your tax-deductible contributions directly funded our zero-cost, volunteer underwater recovery missions in 2025.
Tale of a Work Boat
When grant makers fell through, our donors stepped up. Read the story of how our custom work boat was funded to support safe, highly efficient underwater recoveries.
Recovery Diving in Baltimore
Our thoughts on the tragic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. A professional perspective on the incredibly dangerous, zero-visibility recovery diving required in Baltimore.
A Look Back
Looking back at 2023, a year of tremendous growth for California Recovery Divers. Reflecting on our missions, our volunteers, and the grieving families we were able to serve.
A shark attack. And a quandry.
A look into the difficult inter-agency search efforts at Wildcat Beach. See how teams coordinate side scan sonar and ROVs when diver safety is compromised and a recovery dive team faces a difficult search.
Why do you do this?
"Why do you do this?" It is a question our unpaid volunteers get asked frequently. Here is why our divers take on the heavy responsibility of underwater recovery.