The story behind the new book CATALINA ISLAND DIVE BUDDIES

(DiverWire) When Mike Rivkin, award winning publisher and former president and historian for the venerable “Tuna Club” located in Avalon on Catalina Island invited Jon Council to a breakfast meeting in the late summer of 2012 to discuss an idea he’d been pondering, it was hard to imagine where that meeting would lead. Rivkin had already published a handful of books pertaining to the history of the International Game Fishing Association (IGFA) and the 50 greatest world record catches.Catalina Island resident Jon Council, who conducted his first dive in Dutch Harbor, Alaska in 1974, has since plunged into nearly every sea on the planet as a scientific researcher for NOAA, the U.S. EPA, National Geographic Society, Institute for Naut...
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Kudos to Mike and Jon on their new book