La Jollan parlayed his love for undersea adventures into a lucrative career that took him around the world on magazine assignments and movie sets
, and others — after the store he helped open in San Diego, The Diving Locker, became a mecca for like-minded explorers from around the world.“When you are competing for work in National Geographic or Hollywood, it’s a dog-eat-dog world and a lot of people there are wary of newcomers, but Chuck was not like that,” saidCharles Richardson Nicklin Jr. was born Sept. 4, 1927, near Worcester, Mass. His father was in the Navy. In 1942, after the U.S.
The Diving Shop opened on June 15, 1959 — one day after a shark killed a diver in La Jolla Cove. Business was not exactly brisk. “For a while, we didn’t sell much except copies of Skin Diver magazine,” Nicklin later told the Union-Tribune. “People were really afraid.” In January 1963, Nicklin was in a boat with friends, headed for undersea canyons off La Jolla, when they saw several spouts from a Bryde’s whale. It was entangled in a gill net. Nicklin went into the water and climbed on the whale to free it. A friend snapped photos.
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