Inside the Women Divers Hall of Fame

Join Allison Vitsky Sallmon to find the actual story behind the Women Divers Hall of Fame and how one can become involved. Join this enjoyable, fast-paced session on the Long Beach Scuba Show on 30-31 May that includes bingo, prizes, bragging rights, and loads of laughs.

Together together with her husband Andy Sallmon, Allison Vitsky Sallmon makes up a pictures/writing group that has been working collectively since 2010. Individually and collectively, their work has been acknowledged in dozens of worldwide underwater and nature pictures competitions, graced the partitions of aquariums and museums, together with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Smithsonian Institute, and extensively printed in magazines and books on diving, nature, and pictures.

Allison is the founder and president of Dive into the Pink, a non-profit group that mobilizes the diving neighborhood to hitch the combat in opposition to most cancers, and a proud member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame.

Long Beach Scuba Show

The Long Beach Scuba Show, this yr sponsored by Divers Alert Network, is celebrating its thirty ninth anniversary in 2026 (30-31 May), and it represents the primary present beneath the banner of recent house owners Rork Media Limited, which additionally runs the GO Diving Shows within the UK and Australia, and publishes the global-multi-edition Scuba Diver journal, in addition to being behind the Scuba Diver Magazine YouTube Channel, and long-established web site Divernet.

Fans of the long-running occasion shall be delighted to listen to that Rork Media plan to retain every thing that made the Scuba Show such a staple on the West Coast diving circuit, and improve it with new and improved components, together with a Main Stage with an enormous video wall proper within the exhibition corridor itself, a brand new format designed to stimulate exploration across the tons of of cubicles, and extra interactive sights together with a VR dive on a deep-water shipwreck within the Baltic Sea.

The three seminar rooms have been organised into themes, to make it simpler to search out audio system/matters of curiosity, so put together to dive into Adventure, Inspiration, and UW Imaging.

Whether you’re an skilled diver, a brand new fanatic, or simply curious concerning the underwater world, the Scuba Show brings collectively every thing you’re keen on about diving beneath one roof.

Greg Holt from Scuba Radio shall be entertaining the crowds on mornings earlier than and because the present opens, providing loads of enjoyable and video games, and the possibility to win some superb prizes.

Explore tons of of exhibitors showcasing the newest scuba gear, dive locations, underwater pictures gear, coaching packages, and ocean conservation initiatives. Attend inspiring seminars led by world-renowned dive specialists, explorers, and photographers, and join with dive professionals, journey operators, and fellow divers from throughout the nation.

There can also be the chance to increase your skillset. The PSI-PCI Visual Cylinder Inspection course is open to everybody who needs to examine high-pressure respiratory gasoline cylinders, or simply know concerning the course of. These specialty programs assist the inspection course of with formal perform particular coaching on valve upkeep and restore, and Oxygen Cylinder Cleaning. Inspectors who’re on the three-year renewal mark and need to attend the PSI-PCI Update course will have the ability to handle it on the Scuba Show as effectively.

PSI-PCI provides the one coaching that’s formally endorsed, utilized, and referred to by the cylinder producers. The coaching has been created with the enter of business professionals and specialists in every subject to give you the perfect coaching accessible to fulfill the Federal necessities for the related processes.  You can be a part of the group of PSI-PCI Professionals on the Scuba Show. Don’t wait, seats will refill rapidly! Click here for extra data and to ebook a slot.

The Scuba Show provides two full days of ocean journey, hand’s-on experiences, and unique present specials, and is the place the US dive neighborhood comes collectively to have fun the underwater world.

Get your tickets now!

Tickets are on sale now for the Scuba Show, and new for 2026, there’s a change to the price of entry – there may be now one ticket worth, which will get each attendee full entry to the Exhibition Hall, and entry to all seminars.

With most of the audio system within the devoted Adventure, Inspiration, and UW Imaging seminar rooms both solely presenting on one of many days, or giving two completely different talks, plus with the headline acts on the Main Stage, and the plethora of cubicles, interactive components and far more, there may be a lot to maintain you occupied on each days, so why not make a weekend of it?

Tickets can be found now – click here – priced at $33 for a day ticket, and $60 for a weekend move. There can also be the choice of a VIP Pass, which features a weekend move plus 6 problems with Scuba Diver journal and 6 problems with California Diving News (Magazine supply US & Canada residents solely), and a Scuba Show Dive Team T-shirt, for $100.

Under 16s go free – convey the household and let the youngsters dive into the enjoyable as effectively.

Join us for 2 unimaginable days, 30-31 May 2026, celebrating the world of diving on the Long Beach Convention Center!