• Conservation

It's time for this year's Extreme Clean Up! Each year, thousands of volunteers head out into their section of Rock Creek Park and conduct clean ups as part of this movement. Anyone joining this clean up will need to complete the RCC online wa.. Read More

• Events

Does this describe you? Are you passionate about diving and love to share stories of your dive adventures with everyone you know? Or maybe you love a challenge and want to expand your diving knowledge and underwater skills beyond that of a recreation.. Read More

• gear
• wetsuits

Suitability: Ensuring Comfort Underwater In order to fully enjoy your time underwater, you need to be comfortable. We all know this as divers, but figuring out exactly how to make that happen for us individually can be somewhat of a challenge.  .. Read More

• conservation
• travel

Tips For Planning An Eco-minded Dive Trip Have you ever been on a vacation and been shocked at the amount of debris floating in the water and littering the beach? Or wondered if the local people are benefiting from your tourism dollars? As divers, we.. Read More

• fish id
• fish
• critters
• photography

  How To Spot Some Of Our Favorite Cryptic Critters On Your Next Dive Remember when you first started diving? There was so much to see that you hardly knew where to look! Colorful parrot fish chomping on corals. Schools of wrasse streaming over .. Read More

• fish
• behavior
• photography

  7 Secrets To Better Underwater Photos (and Encounters) By Understanding Fish Behavior   We know how it goes: you dry off from a dive, eager to load your photos onto your laptop or iPad to see if THAT SHOT actually came out. The one with t.. Read More

• drysuit
• diving
• gear

  Drysuit Diving: A Hassle Or A Whole New Way To Dive? Photo: Byron Conroy With COVID-19 upending much of the world’s diving plans for the year, many of us are looking for ways to get in the water closer to home. For a lot of us, this mean.. Read More

• sunscreen
• conservation

  What's The Deal With Sunscreen? You’ve probably seen headlines popping up all over saying things like “Palau is first country to ban ‘reef toxic’ sun cream,” “People over Coral: Florida could b.. Read More

• Conservation

Looking for a great volunteer opportunity while it's chilly outside? We have rescheduled the MLK Day Cleanup for Feb. 20th! Join Blue Planet divers to clean up Rock Creek and give back to our community and the ocean by keeping our waterways clean.. Read More