Links and Reference Sites

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Weather, Want-ads, Diving information, Electronic communities,
Organisations & agencies, Other clubs, Dive shops, Web shopping, Training services,
Suppliers, Dive Tourism, Magazines, Exhibitions, Fun, Software/file downloads

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Recommended sites selection

Weather for diving : Windfinder.com

Shopping : Slough Scuba, Simply Scuba, SDS Watersports, Mike's WW

Ref. info : Sportszine UK, Subaqua,  Wreck descriptions

Directories : 3Routes Worldwide, 3Routes Britain

Want-ads : UK Diving ads, SAA (see ads), RIBs for Sale

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Weather & Tides (back to categories)

	Windfinder.com - Winds, tides, wave heights and more
	Weymouth weather - uniquely long range 10 day outlook from Weather.com
	Met Office Central Southern: rolling 3-day maps and summaries
	Inshore Waters Forecast today: Very brief summary of conditions by area today (but only useful if you're setting out late)
	Shipping Forecast today: As read out on BBC Radio 4

	Moon Phase Calculator : Great monthly calendar showing phases of the moon for any month/year - helps judge springs/neaps on given dates (tip - look at URL convention to see how to go straight to a given month/year)
	Advocacy weather: huge range of links but mostly in USA

Want-ads (back to categories)

	Boat Mart: Comprehensive UK boats&bits sales/info site - includes buying guides, news, events, links, features...
	Inflatable Boat Network
	RIBs for Sale: RIB Magazine's sales database. Good listings but only updated every 2-3 months.
	RIBs4Sale and HotRIBs: More RIB want ad sites.
	UK diving: 2nd hand kit for sale: dozens of small ads evey week for all sorts of diving gear - great place to buy/sell, see kit wanted too.

Diving Information/Portals (back to categories)

	3Routes Worldwide SCUBA Diving Directory: Stunningly comprehensive directory listings for scuba operations all over the world
	3Routes Britain: How to contact most of the shops and operators you've heard of and a few you probably haven't -- brilliant one-stop-shop links to suppliers
	Andy Carrington's Dorset Underwater: Nice site with descriptions & photos of many of Dorset's most popular dive sites
	Deep Sea Directory: includes dive shops and charter boats mostly Weymouth & West Bay at present

	Dive In - dive sites
	Diver's Datalog
	Dive Pembrokeshire: Useful descriptions of dive sites in the Pembroke area
	Dive Shows: Web site didicated to telling you all about upcoming dive shows

	Knots - animated: a neat scouts web page showing animations of how to tie knots.  See also Realknots.com: undreds of links to show you how to tie all manner of knots.
	MarineData internet
	OceanLink: Lots of info about the marine world
	Subaqua: Greg Roach's handy reference site for UK divers

	Scuba Diving Explained: Lawrence Martin, M.D.
	Scubadiving.com: training info (CARE: NOT SAA MATERIAL )
	ScubaDuba
	Sportszine UK - Scuba Search: Good range of links and access to reference info with a uk bias - good reference source
	The Rebreather web site

Electronic Communities (back to categories)

	Clubs UK - Homepage
	Darryl's Scuba Services
	Diver Down!: Diving Forum
	Excite People & Chat Scuba
	The Scuba Ring: A linked loop of hundreds of dive related websites all over the world.
	UK Diving - The Diver's Resource: The long standing and very useful reference source for UK divers including and interactive map ofthe UK showing dive sites.
	Yahoo! Clubs - UK Diving Club: A Yahoo hosted virtual club for uk divers -  lots of neat facilities but sadly little used.
	SAA: Read/contribute to the Sub Aqua Association's scuba forums.

Diving Organisations & related Agencies (back to categories)

Organisations for which I cannot find a web site have their phone numbers listed instead.

	ADU: Archaeological Diving Unit
	Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites: tel 0171 211 6360
	ANDI: American Nitrox Divers Inc.
	BSoUP: British Society of Underwater Photographers, tel 0181 668 8168
	BMIF: British Marine Industries Federation
	BSAC: British Sub-Aqua Club
	Cave Diving Group of Great Britain
	CFT(Comhairle Fo-Thuinn):  Irish Underwater Council
	CMAS: Confederation Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (a.k.a. World Diving/Underwater Federation)
	Coastguard: aka MCA (web site TBA)

	Coral Cay Conservation
	DAN: Divers Alert Network
	DEMA: Dive Equipment and Marketing Association

	DDRC: Diving Diseases Research Centre (hyperbaric medical centre)
	English Heritage
	Environment Agency, Thames Region (formerly NRA): tel 0118 953 5000
	Historical Diving Society: aims to preserve heritage, informative site
	IANTD: International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
	Landmark Trust: trustees for all bookings on Lundy island - link is direct to Lundy page of their website.
	Met. Office: UK Meteorological Centre
	MCA: Maritime and Coastguard Agency (web siteTBA)
	MCS: Marine Conservation Society
	MSA: Maritime Safety Agency (do a "find" within the linked page), or tel: 01689 890 400
	Marine Technology Directorate (web site TBA)
	NAUI: National Association of Underwater Instructors
	NAS: Nautical Archaeology Society (new URL)

National Lottery of the UK

	PADI: Professional Association of Diving Instructors
	Professional Boatmans Association: very useful and informative site
	RA: Radiocommunications Agency, tel Wyndham House: 020 7211 0211
	Receiver of Wreck (just a descriptive page), tel 01703 329 474
	Resuscitation Council (UK): tel 0171 388 4678
	RLSS: Royal Life Saving Society, tel 01527 853 943
	RNLI: Royal National Lifeboat Institute
	Royal Navy Submarine Museum: plenty of info on the museum
	RYA: Royal Yachting Association
	SAA: the Sub Aqua Association - ace website with reference info, contacts, news, articles, and a scuba forum for public debate.

	Scottish Sports Council: Caledonia House, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ, tel: 0131 317 7200
	SSAC: Scottish Sub-Aqua Club
	SSI: Scuba Schools International
	Thames Valley Police Underwater Search Unit, 0118 953 6780
	TDI: Technical Diving International (www.tdiusa.com?)
	UK Hydrographic Office: Admiralty charts and the like
	War memorials: a site that lists (or soon will) wrecks classed as war memorials that should not be entered or tampered with
	WASAC: Welsh Association of Sub-Aqua Clubs
	Welsh Sports Council: National Sports Centre, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Other clubs (back to categories)

	AquaWorld - PADI club site fairly interesting but low on useful info
	Berkshire Buddies BSAC: have their own hardboat - wonder who tows?
	Demon Technical SAA 666
	Hastings SAC SAA 44:  cool wrecks map and database for wrecks in SE England
	High Wycombe Sub-Aqua Club: large BSAC club
	Kingston BSAC
	Meadurst Sub Aqua Club
	Newbury SAC: nicely designed website of one of our neighbours - note new URL.
	Reading University BSAC
	Reef Scuba: UK PADI based club with diverse activities.
	Rother Diving Club
	Slough SAC: go to southern region clubs on the SAA website
	White Rose Dolphins: Large number of links and dive jargon dictionary

Dive Shops (back to categories)

	Slough Scuba - The store for all your Scuba and Snorkelling needs! Call 01628 666833
	Bear Divers - Scuba cybershop & courses
	Berks Dive Crew, Bracknell
	Blandford Sub-Aqua, Watford (www.divernet.com/blandford?)
	Croxley Divers, Herts
	Day's Diversified Services (formerly Day's Fire Protection) no web: tel 01792 579 777
	Maidenhead, Eton and Windsor SAC - very active local BSAC lot

	Mikes Waterfront Warehouse, Chiswick - the price reference in the south
	Ocean Leisure, London
	Orca Dive Centre, London
	Portland Oceaneering, right opposite Budgies on Portland, good prices, varied stock. E-mail dive@portlando.demon.co.uk
	Reading Dive
	SDS Watersports, Sheffield - cheap & helpful

Web-Shopping (back to categories)

	Chartsales - books, charts, flag including v.cheap "cancelled" charts @ £2.50
	eWetstuits: order your wet-suit on-line
	Fins Direct: low-price web shopping by credit card
	Mikes Waterfront Warehouse: mail order too
	RIBs4Sale: online RIBs and Engines, new and used
	SDS Watersports: compare prices - they're good
	Simply Scuba: online dive store

Training Services (back to categories)

Fathom & Blues: training operation with big fast RIB

Manufacturers, Dive centres & Charters (back to categories)

	AP Valves / Buddy
	Aqualung
	Aquatec

	Dacor Scuba Equipment - recently changed home page address
	Dive Rite
	Hardboat/Skippers for Charter
	Ikelite
	Inflatable Boat Specialists - Deals

	Blue Turtle Dive Charters - Reef and wreck diving in Lyme Bay. email: doug@blueturtle.uk.com Call to book: 07970 856822
	JBC Charters
	Michelle Mary charters: gimmicky site with music etc
	Nationwide Boat Sales
	New Dawn Dive Centre, Woking based operation that runs a superb dive boat round western Isle of Wight
	O'Three
	PBA boat charter page: great list of hardboats for charter, fast access, map based
	Poseidon
	Ribcraft Online: fulldetails and spec of their range of RIBs
	Robin Hood Watersports
	Scubapro
	Suunto
	Top Cat charter: simple poster type web page for Weymouth based catamaran dive boat
	U.S.Divers
	Undersea Adventures: shop, school, hols, dive site info photos, nice site
	Uwatec
	White Horse Charters: Diving Charters to Normandy, Brittany, Weymouth and South West
	Wight Wreck Charter: includes useful summary of good dive sites round IoW
	Zeagle

Dive Tourism (back to categories)

	A1 Tourism, Hotel & Guest House Directory - listing all over Britain for B&B and Hotels - handy reference for occasional travel
	Alchemy Diving - Oban, Mull, Lorne
	Anglesey on Cirrus
	Aquatours
	Berkshire Dive Crew
	Boococks B&B - handy for Mountbatten Dive Centre, Plymouth, and caters for divers, JohnM@jboocock.freeserve.co.uk
	Crusader Travel
	Crystal Seas Scuba (nitrox & tech diving in Menorca)
	Dive Guide International
	Diving & Caravans in Argyll, Scotland
	Diving Komodo on the Evening Star II
	Diving World: Miss Nouran operators and more
	GTC: Scuba Diving and Eco Tours to Belize and Latin America
	Indo-Pacific Divers
	Ireland with Omagh SAC
	Kingfisher: specialise in Thailand
	Lundy Island: official web site for the island, see also Lundy Island - saqnet
	Maltaqua: Diving in Malta
	Nielson: Part of Thomas Cook/JMC, dedicated diving brochure featuring Sharm El Sheikh, Grenada in the Caribbean, Bitez and an all inclusive Dive Gulet in Turkey, also offer scuba diving courses.
	Parcangrouse: Handy B&B on the Lizard near St. Keverne
	Red Sea Divers
	Regal Diving
	Scapa Scuba
	Scottish Diving
	Skellig Aquatics Dive Centre - SW Ireland
	Stormdrift: Scapa Flow
	Tony BackHurst: red sea liveaboards
	Trek & Dive (e-mail) - Borneo, Indonesia, Australia...
	Trans Niugini Tours: Tour info for Papua New Guinea
	Undersea: Penzance operator with special Basking Shark watch trips
	West Dorset District Council: general tourism info in Dorset
	Whitehorse: Normandy liveaboard wreck expeditions
	Wraysbury Lake: Handy training lake near Heathrow airport

Magazines (back to categories)

	"Aquanaut" - Upstart online diving magazine (not the real thing :-)
	Aqua: Monthly magazine for PADI members
	Asian Diver: On-line version of the scuba diving mag for the Asia Pacific region
	SCUBA World (TBS)
	Boats for Sale: Has searchable database of new & used boats
	Deeper Blue
	Deep Tech: Technical Diving online forum, classy graphics
	Dive Girl
	Diver
	HotRibs: Online internet magazine and RIB club
	Inflatable Boats
	MBY Motor Boat & Yachting
	Practical Boat Owner: magazine for general boating with on-line expert advice
	RIB International: Has searchable database of new & used boats
	Scuba Times Online
	ScubaWorld Online: Overseas version - not the UK magazine
	Undercurrent Online: "USA based online Scuba Magazine for the Serious Diver Reviews Scuba Diving Resorts and Dive Gear"

Exhibitions (back to categories)

TBS

Fun (back to categories)

	@quatic dreams: scuba diving photo albums
	DIY plans: how to build your own personal submarine, camera housings, and Remotely Operated Vehicles!
	Jim Tedder: Cute personal home page with music
	Multi-Map: not specifically for diving but a brilliant interactive atlas of Great Britain - try it out.
	Paul Yancey's Deep-Sea Pages
	Shark Cam: Discovery Online live pictures from Waikiki Aquarium

Software & Download Files (back to categories)

Windows PC

	AutoTide: Tide calculator & tide table generator - comprehensive European ports data
	Dive Data: Scuba Club Records Management currently BS-AC only, but DiveData2000 includes SAA/PADI etc. too
	Dive Voyager: desktop decompression system
	ReefNet Software: Dive Log and Fish ID Software available on CD ROM
	Voyager Software: desktop decompression planner program
	Deco Planner: GUE mixed gas dive planning tool - very techy

Palm Pilot All of the following programs (not files) can be tracked down through the excellent Eurocool Palm Pilot web site.   Keep an eye on the EuroCool latest applications too.

	Walt Bilofsky's brilliant freeware Tide Tool for the PalmPilot
	Alex Garza's Moon Phase Program - great for approximating springs/neaps
	Brad Goodman's amusing freeware SoftGPS program
	Ken Hancock's Dive Log program - currently free in beta version
	GUE DPlan: The excellent mixed gas dive planner for palm
	Why not keep the news/diary/dive space pages from this website synchronised into your PalmPilot using the neat AvantGo website mirror (download freeware)

 

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