Clubs

Portland Sea Searchers is an active Portland, Oregon dive club to this day. The Sea Searchers of Portland were formed by diving instructor Pete George in 1963. For the first three years (63 – 65) the club met at Mr. Carol Godat’s dive shop on NE Union Avenue Portland Oregon. Godat’s shop closed in 1965 and all of the records […]

Seattle, Washington: 1961 – present Marker Buoy Dive Club traces its roots to 1961 as a shop-sponsored dive club in Ballard, WA. The club was founded by John T. Miller, who together with his wife Alma, owned and operated the Marker Buoy dive shop in Ballard. The club was originally called “The Marker Boys” because in the early 60s, scuba […]

Camas, Washington: 1954 – 1979 By Tom Hemphill Ed Palamounter, a former Navy UDT diver (Frogman) in WWII, founded the Aqua-Neer Dive Club in the early 1950s. Ed was enthusiastic about diving and he was a master teacher. Ed had no desire to make a living from diving. He simply wanted to share his skills and knowledge with anyone that […]

The 1963 issue of Skin Diver Magazine lists over 1100 diving clubs and organizations. Click here to view the roster