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Certified in 1973, Bonnie J. Cardone has
logged thousands of dives in California and many other areas around the
world, including Fiji, Bonaire, Palau, the Red Sea, the Galapagos, the
Cayman Islands, the Socorro Islands, Baja California, Indonesia,
Belize, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Roatan and the Philippines.
She worked for Skin Diver for 22 years. During that time she
advanced from editorial assistant to editor and wrote more than 900
articles. Thousands of her photos were published in the magazine as
well as in dive equipment catalogues, a diving medicine book, the L.A.
Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated.
A freelance photojournalist since 1999, Bonnie edits Sisters in
Crime’s national newsletter and covers several mystery conventions for
that organization every year. She has also written several as yet
unpublished mystery novels featuring a scuba diving woman photographer.
Bonnie is co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California,
published in 1989 and now out of print, and editor/author of Fireside
Diver, an anthology of dive adventure and humor stories published in
1992 and reprinted three times. She was the principal photographer for
Diving & Snorkeling Southern California & the Channel Islands,
released in 2001.
Besides Skin Diver, Bonnie’s work has appeared in California Diving
News, Canada’s Diver, Immersed, Sport Diver and Historical Diver.
She was named Woman Scuba Diver of the Year in 1999 and received
the California Scuba Service Award the same year. An original inductee
in the Women Divers Hall of Fame, she became a member of the California
Wreck Divers Hall of Fame in 2003.
           
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Bonnie J. Cardone