Thought I'd share some web pages that I've found to be useful, informative, or fun ....
!!! NONE require $$ !!!
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!!)
Useful Websites (non-commercial!!)
Useful Websites (non-commercial!!)
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Good resource. Thanks, Diver Dad! Maybe a mod could pin this for a while?
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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..
Who run barter town?