Channel Islands Dive Adventures

Oxnard, United States

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8 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 805-469-7288
Website:
www.channelislandsdiveadventures.com
Address:
1908 Arcadia St, Oxnard, CA, 93033
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
1.4 miOxnard
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Today

Today 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Open now
Local time (Oxnard) 7:21 AM Saturday, May 31, 2025

Business hours

Monday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Tuesday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Wednesday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Thursday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm

Description

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Scuba trips-​Channel Islands Dive Adventures mission is to offer well organized dive trips to unique and interesting destinations with a dive/​travel guide present, to help foster new friendships with other like minded divers and above all to promote safe and fun diving.

History

Established in 1999.

Channel Islands Dive Adventures is coming up on its 7th year in business in Sept/​October and we have come a long way since starting out. Over the last 6 years we went from chartering 7 trips on one boat to an aggressive schedule in 2015 of 37 trips using four boats out of Ventura & Long Beach.

Along the way we have tried to do our part in helping the dive community by offering 10% military discounts and 5% discounts to clubs that help promote CIDA trips. We have been donating to the Avalon Underwater cleanup the past 5 years, donated lots of trips to clubs for meetings and yearly banquet/​parties, do our best to help educate divers while on dive trips, sponsor the SoCal Shootout and more.

To top all this off we are the proud recipient of the 2013 Divers Alert Network «Rising Star» award handed out at DEMA in Florida-​Thank you DAN!

Now 2016 is getting closer who knows what we will do next? We have more BIG plans and the best way to find out is keep looking at our website & FB page.

Meet the Business Owner

Ken K.

Business Owner

Channel Islands Dive Adventures is owned and operated by Ken Kollwitz. Ken was certified at 16, had a 10 year surface interval and has been diving the last 25+ years mainly around the Ventura-​Monterey-​Channel Islands area. He considers himself a true cold water diver with his favorite diving around Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Other places Ken really enjoys to dive are Jade Cove, Port San Luis /​Avila /​Morro Bay area, Monastery beach and San Clemente Island. Ken has a sense of adventure and enjoys all types of diving such as; hunting, wrecks, photography, drift, deep, tech, deco and more. Ken is always looking for new exciting out of the way dive sites and hard to get too dive sites.

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8 reviews of Channel Islands Dive Adventures

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Place rating: 5
Santa Barbara, CA
Excellent trip to Santa Cruz on the Truth. Well orchestrated and everyone had a great time. Thank you!
Place rating: 5
Torrance, CA
Very accommodating, knowledgeable staff and management. Will continue to look for trips on their schedule. Ken, Billy Jean, Steve are professionals and are willing to help you in any way to make your trip enjoyable. I have been to Begg Rock, Santa Cruz Is., San Nicholas Is., San Clemente Is. and other other trips and will continue to seek them out for trips. You can book trips online or calling.
Place rating: 5
Lake Arrowhead, CA
Another well run trip by CIDA, this time on the Asante. We were hoping to get to Farnsworth but alas, it was overrun by about 10 fishing boats.
Instead we dove 3 completely different locations including the Midnight Hour wreck, Blue Caverns and the backside of Bird rock.
CIDA dive trips are always well organized and a lot of fun to be on.
Place rating: 5
San Luis Obispo, CA
Top Notch dive organization! They have made it possible for so many divers to meet and travel to places in the waters around the Channel Islands, that otherwise may not be accessible. They have put together amazing charters, have hosts on each trip that assist, inform, lend gear, and make EVERYTHING enjoyable and fun. I fall more in love with diving each trip I go on with these wonderful people. I can’t say enough great things about Channel Island Dive Adventures. After one trip, they had me hooked! Thank you Ken, B.j. & Steve!
Place rating: 5
Lake Hughes, CA
There’s not much I can say about Ken except diving with anyone else at the helm is just not acceptable. I have known Ken going on 4+ years now, dove with him maybe 70+ times, and have been on many, many trips — both locally in Southern California and those more exotic.
Ken is the consummate professional going to great lengths to make sure everyone on a CIDA trip is treated to a superb diving experience. Having dove the area for years, he brings an enormous amount of knowledge to all the trips. CIDA trips are for divers — you won’t find students or «cattle-​car» conditions, but you will find self-​minded people who thoroughly love the opportunity to enjoy the ocean.
Better still, Ken works behind the scenes with every boat he charters to ensure the customer experience is what the demanding diver expects. We have tremendous boats here in SoCal, and when coupled with CIDA, a day or multi-​day trip is even better. CIDA offers both beginner and advanced dive trips, and often to overlooked or sometimes even new, locations. If you don’t make it where you plan, not to worry — Ken and the crew will work to find something just as interesting.
So yes, I’m a huge CIDA fan but I urge you to find a charter, sigh up and have a fantastic time. You won’t regret it! For me, finding CIDA and Ken was one of the best things above diving. Thank you, Ken!
Place rating: 5
Los Angeles, CA
Did my first dive trip with Ken & CIDA a month ago and had an awesome time. Ken is super nice and helpful. He even paired up with me when everyone else already had a dive buddy, and was cool going at the pace of a less experienced diver. CIDA does a lot of wreck diving, and I am definitely going to be doing more dives with them soon!
Place rating: 5
Ellicott City, MD
I have used Channel Island Dive Adventures (CIDA) many times in the last several years and I have been blown away with this dive operation.
The gentleman who runs it is a very experienced diver and an all around nice guy. One of those guys who just makes you feel good to be around him. He puts together a variety of great trips. While he doesn’t own the boats we go out on, he charters the boat, plans the trip, and seems to find interesting things that I wasn’t able to find on other trips.
Back when I lived in California I did both single day and multi-​day trips around the Channel Islands. I had a uniformly great time every time I hit the water with him.
Now that I live in the East Coast I’m still able to go diving with CIDA because he puts together trips out here at well. Next up – North Carolina for a Megalodon Shark Tooth and Wreck Diving trip.
His prices are VERY reasonable, and his service is just fantastic. His website has a ton of information, not just about his trips, but about the areas in California where he dives.
If you’re looking for a great trip and an all around great time check out CIDA. If you sign up for one of his trips outside of Cali you might even see me there.
Place rating: 5
Pasadena, CA
I’m always pleased when I find CIDA has a boat trip scheduled on a day that I’m free to go diving — they run a great variety of trips here in SoCal and I can always count on them to be organized and fun!
As an experienced diver and underwater photographer, I especially enjoy their advanced trips. They often plan dives to some of the less-​visited locations in the area such as coastal sites, wrecks, and the harder-​to-​reach islands.
Their website contains good, detailed info on their dives, and they run trips on various boats and suited for all levels of diver (if a trip is recommended for advanced divers only, it will be clear on the sign-​up page).
I feel like the SoCal dive community is lucky to have them — they support a variety of dive boats, and often split charters with other groups or clubs. I haven’t had a bad day yet on a CIDA trip, and I look forward to going on many more!