Useful Websites (non-commercial!!)

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Useful Websites (non-commercial!!)

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Thought I'd share some web pages that I've found to be useful, informative, or fun ....

!!! NONE require $$ !!! \:D/

Hope you find them useful!



Tides & Currents:

http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sites_uswest.html
Select a region here, then select a site for which to generate predictions. You will get basic predictions and a form for customized predictions. Predictions may take a few moments to calculate.

http://www.pnwscuba.com/tides.htm
Gives daily information and can provide graphs as well.



Dive Sites

http://www.pnwscuba.com/reviews.htm
General Puget Sound Dive Sites

http://www.visitkitsap.com/search/thing ... ults&ID=41
Kitsap Peninsula Dive Sites

http://www.seaotter.com/marine/html/octohole.html
http://www.pnwscuba.com/reviews/octopus.htm
Octopus Hole

http://www.pacadventure.com/divesites.htm
Misc general info about Hood Canal sites



Wildlife:

http://www.elasmodiver.com/elasmodiver_home.htm
Elasmodiver is an image database of sharks, skates, rays, and chimaera's from around the world.

http://www.bobbates.net/html/archives.html
SCUBA Picture of the Day

http://ww4.doh.wa.gov/gis/mogifs/biotoxin.htm
http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/sf/BiotoxinProgram.htm
Marine biotoxin information for WA / Puget Sound. Includes area closed to recreational harvest due to significant levels of biotoxins.

http://www.pnwscuba.com/critterwatchers/comarchives.htm
PAC North West Critters

http://divephotoguide.com/
http://www.epicscuba.com/pages/frameset_main.html
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/reef/index.html
http://www.seaotter.com/
http://www.underseavisions.com/
http://www.pnwscuba.com/photogallery.htm
Photos & information



Misc Stuff

http://www.aqvi55.dsl.pipex.com/knots/knots.htm
Fishing, diving, rigging, and climbing knots.

http://www.magnificentrelief.com/dive_docs.htm
Misc diving documents

http://www.atlanticunderwater.com/index ... &Itemid=66
Spring straps

http://home.att.net/~cmeilahn/NitroxCalculator.html
NITROX calculator

http://scuba.about.com/od/beginners/
Basic info for neophytes



DIR & Hogarthian Information

http://www.thumpershole.com/dir_training.htm
DIR training videos

http://www.sandiegodiving.com/education/items/11.html
DIR And Scuba Diving- Should You Be "Doing It Right"?

http://www.e-nekton.com/
http://www.e-nekton.com/dirpart1.html
http://www.e-nekton.com/dirpart2.html
http://www.e-nekton.com/dirpart3.html
http://www.e-nekton.com/dirpart4.html
Making diving safer and more enjoyable - Doing It Right and the recreational diver

http://dir-diver.com/en/
http://gue.com/Projects/WKPP/Equipment/index.html
http://www.sfdj.com/hogarthian/hogarth1.html
Misc DIR & Hogarthian info



Dive Science & Health Info

https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medi ... /index.asp
http://scuba-doc.com/clinic/
Diving medicine information

http://www.scubageek.com/
“Although we're interested in frequently asked questions, we're more interested in questions that are NOT frequently asked, but probably should be. Most of the following articles have something to do with being in, on, or near water (e.g. underwater photography). But some have nothing to do with anything --- we just find them interesting.”



Streaming Audio

http://scubaradio.com/index.cfm?sector= ... e=archives
SCUBA Radio - “The world's first radio show devoted to diving.”



Streaming Video

http://www.camcentral.com/camviewer.php ... =1&id=1959
Manatee Cam



Dive Adventure

http://www.deepseadetectives.com/
Needs no explanation

http://www.u869.com/
U-869 history & photos



Other Diving Forums

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums.php
http://thescubastop.com/forums/index.php?
http://thedecostop.com/forums/index.php?
http://www.newdiver.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1 (sometimes hard to connect)
http://dive.scubadiving.com/talk/list.php?1


And newly listed from popular whining:

http://www.calvintang.com/blog/ (actually, its got some good stuff! Lots of time spent putting this together, Cal!!) :supz:
Last edited by diver-dad on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by DiverDown »

Whoaa!! Someones been busy.. :smt024 Thanks for taking the time to research those links. A few of them I recognise and use often!! :supz:
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Post by Joshua Smith »

Good resource. Thanks, Diver Dad! Maybe a mod could pin this for a while?
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Post by Tangfish »

Dang, no CalvinTang.com?! :crybaby:

Kidding.... nice list Dad!
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Calvin Tang wrote:Dang, no CalvinTang.com?! :crybaby:

Kidding.... nice list Dad!

Took a look & revised my list !!

Thanks ...
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Post by DiverDown »

Ok I moved this post to the education forum, Mabey at a later date we can add a seperate forum. This is a good idea to put resources in one post. Folks should just add to this post links that they think could be usefull to others. Keeping with Diver-Dads original idea for free noncomercial sites..
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