I stand on the deck of the vision, soaking in the view of the big sur coast when a man wearing dry-suit underwear and ugg boots bumps into me, tossed by a lurch of the boat.

“Come here often?” I laugh. Diving off the coast of Big Sur is not something anyone does often. There is nowhere to put in a boat south of Point Lobos or north of Morro Bay and those dramatic cliffs make getting into the ocean from shore nearly impossible…..

Read more of my story about the wild people who dive off this inaccessible coast at Carmel Magazine.