About CWD About the California Wreck Divers Greetings, and welcome to the California Wreck Divers' website. We would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little about wreck diving, and the California Wreck Divers in particular. In Southern California we have a vast shortage of Spanish gold, coral, and cannon, but we do have some exciting and varied wreck diving. Water conditions on the wrecks range from protected areas to white-water diving with a heavy surge.
Wreck diving has something for every kind of diver.
For the game diver, the wrecks are found with an abundance with fish of all kinds as the make excellent havens for marine life. For the photographer and sightseer, a wreck has countless exciting attractions. Last, but far from least, shipwrecks offer the diver an exciting look into the maritime past when ship fittings were not only functional, but highly decorative and ornate as well. Countless hours of painstaking work have restored and refurbished many shipwreck relics, providing countless opportunities to exhibit and display interesting and useful items. California Wreck Divers was founded in the spring of 1971 in order to provide greater opportunity for the members to explore California shipwrecks and to systematically research and seek out wrecks.