History

The Northwest Diving History Association’s mission is to record and preserve the history of the people that contributed to the development of scuba diving. To help preserve this history,

A Historical Diving Article written by Tory the Diver. Commercial gillnet fishing on the Columbia River for salmon has quite a long history. Around the turn of the 20th century, many Scandinavian immigrants settled in Oregon and Washington on both sides of the lower Columbia River near the Pacific Ocean. Many salmon fish canneries opened on the shorelines of the […]