A Morro Bay Maritime Museum Presentation
DISCOVER the amazing true story in the first-ever documentary of the Morro Bay Abalone Fishery.
See rare 1950s era long-lost film footage of underwater hard-hat abalone diving in “Morro Bay - ‘Once’ the Abalone Capital of the World.”
From the early Chinese and Japanese divers, to the local pioneering families, experience what made Morro Bay the abalone capital of the world just a generation or two ago.
In a fabulous stroke of luck, Morro Bay’s golden age of abalone was captured in photos and film by a farm boy from Iowa, who came to Morro Bay following his California dream. He became an abalone diver and photographer. Glen Bickford caught on film the g...