Bonnie J. Cardone was an editor/writer/photographer for Skin Diver Magazine for 22 years, with more than 900 articles to her credit. Thousands of her photos also appeared in the magazine as well as in dive equipment catalogues, a diving medicine book, the L.A. Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

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 twice . She was the principal photographer of a Lonely Planet book, Diving & Snorkeling Southern California & the Channel Islands.

Bonnie has written two mystery novels, numerous freelance articles for three scuba diving magazines, Skin Diver, Diver and California Diving News.

She authored a column on Women Diving Pioneers for the Historical Diving Society USAs quarterly magazine for seven years and is currently the editor of the Sisters in Crime national newsletter.

Bonnie was named Woman Diver of the Year in 1999 and was one of the first women inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame. In 1999, she received the California Scuba Service Award from St. Brendan Corp., publisher of California Diving News.