Found a great article with Marineland history
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Do you have the date for the event? I don't know how I could have missed that.
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July 17, 1966. It would be a few more years before my first Marineland dive. 
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Thanks. I was freediving and spearfishing in that area right around that time, but it may have been just a bit later than that. The first time I used a scuba tank was near Marineland in 1968.
Never dove Marineland, but we occasionally did some collecting for them in the early 1970s
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At this time the greater LA area was the geographical center of all diving the US and probably the world.- confined to a small area was the major diving manufacturing, the most dive shops the most clubs, the most active organized divers and the majority of divers in the US and the world.
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Thanks for unearthing the article and exciting my neuro synapses of events and friends of the very distant past
Sam Miller, 111
LA Co UW instructor 11 UICC
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PADI ete etc
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Thanks for unearthing the article and exciting my neuro synapses of events and friends of the very distant past
Sam Miller, 111
LA Co UW instructor 11 UICC
NAUI #A27
PADI ete etc
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"We're expecting about 500 divers in all" - wow! I can't imagine that kind of diver turnout for anything in So Cal these days. For most beach dives, it's relatively unusual to see more than another two or three divers, and most of the time we have the water all to ourselves
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"We're expecting about 500 divers in all" - wow! I can't imagine that kind of diver turnout for anything in So Cal these days. For most beach dives, it's relatively unusual to see more than another two or three divers, and most of the time we have the water all to out
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At this time the greater LA area was the geographical center of all diving the US and probably the world.- confined to a small area was the major diving manufacturing, the most dive shops the most clubs, the most active organized divers and the majority of divers in the US and the world.
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"We're expecting about 500 divers in all" - wow! I can't imagine that kind of diver turnout for anything in So Cal these days. For most beach dives, it's relatively unusual to see more than another two or three divers, and most of the time we have the water all to out
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Attend the SCUBA Show...10,000 plus attend
Recall
At this time the greater LA area was the geographical center of all diving the US and probably the world.- confined to a small area was the major diving manufacturing, the most dive shops the most clubs, the most active organized divers and the majority of divers in the US and the world.
see PM
SDM
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The Chocolate Lobster dive at Cabrillo Beach used to draw more than a hundred divers. Other than that the largest crowd of divers I can remember at a beach were the Scubaboard meetups and SOCDC dives, or any summer weekend at La Jolla Shores.
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