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BSAC | ORGANISATIONS | WEATHER & TIDES | DIVE SITE INFORMATION | CONSERVATION | TRAVEL | EXOTIC SITES | NAUTICAL | PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO | ARCHAEOLOGY | GENERAL
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BSAC
Our "welcome to the BSAC" site.
BSAC Branch web sites list
BSAC Regional web sites list
BSAC Travel Club - masses of information on destinations, dive travel, trip reports.

ORGANISATIONS
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - Hyperbaric Medecine Unit
Army Sub Aqua Diving Association
Coral Cay Conservation
Nautical Archaeological Society
British Antarctic Survey
British Society of Underwater Photographers
DDRC
UK Sports Diving medical Committee
Historical Diving Society
NOAA - a wealth of knowledge and information regarding NOAA activities and related underwater subjects.
National Maritime Museum - a majour resource on Maritime information from Greenwich
National Water Safety Forum
The Professional Boatmans Association
Lands End Coastguard
RAC - check your route to the dive site and the traffic on the way
Raleigh International - leading youth development charity
Marine Conservation Society
Our World Underwater Scholarship Society
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society - The global voice for the protection of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and their environment

WEATHER and TIDES
Weather from the Met Office
World Wide Weather from CNN
European Weather from CNN
Medium range forecast charts - weather charts for the next few days available online
Admiralty Easy Tide Tidal predictions
Conditions at Sea - live info from weather buoys and other sources
Irish Marine Forecasts - detailed 12 hour charts and information for this region
Sea surface temperatures - Information from geostationary satellites on surface temperatures.
Weatherpost - The Washington Post's excellent weather site. International coverage, radar pictures, forecasts,etc.
Tidal Predictions worldwide
Good Weather and Tide Table service - from Yachting & Boating World

DIVE SITE INFORMATION
Wreck Diving Links - Excellent source of information on wrecks.
The Wreck Site - New site specialising in English Channel wrecks (IE only)
Vivian Quarry map - showing all the details. By Mark Wells.
Diving in the Scillies - Everything you need to know about diving in the Scilly Isles
Dive Sites of Pembrokeshire
Dive Sites of NE England and SE Scotland - Plenty of site information and GPS co-ordinates.
Boat Launch Sites - extensive details on where to launch your boat
Inland Dive Sites - Good database of inland dive sites with useful details
UK Dive Sites - The BSAC Travel Club's guide to UK diving
MapsOnline maps to help you get there

CONSERVATION
Marine Conservation Society

Dive Code of Conduct for the Firth of Lorn and Loch Creran Marine SACs
Discovery - Lots of fascinating information about the marine world including cams and a wonderful kids area.
Frontier Expeditions - marine conservation expeditions to Tanzania and Madagascar.
The Giant Squid - Everything you ever need to know in preparation for encountering this creature. Extremely interesting and well put together. Who knows what could be lurking in that low vis gloom........
Artificial Reef Association of British Columbia - sink a wreck.
The Shark Trust - promoting the conservation, study and management of sharks
Whale Watch. - More links about whales than you can believe
Basking Sharks - Excellent site with both text and photography regarding these huge creatures.
Worldwide Conservation Monitoring Centre
Monterey Bay Aquarium - Particularly good site both for lovers of marine life and also for kids. Very good photographic exhibitions and interactive pages.
Palau "Twilight Zone" Expedition - The Palau Twilight Zone expedition is an exceptionally well documented site detailing a project which explores and studies areas of reef well below normal scuba limits. The team used rebreathers to reach depths of up to 500 feet. Full logs, pictures and diagrams.
Smithsonian Ocean Planet Exhibition
Jason Project - Dr. Ballard and a team of associates dedicated themselves to developing ways that would enable teachers and students around the world to take part in global explorations using advanced interactive telecommunications. This is the website complete with interactive sessions and telecasts.
Sea Grant - promotes the wise stewardship of our marine resources through research, education, outreach and technology transfer. Sea Grant is a partnership between universities in the United States and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which was established by Congress in 1966. There are 29 Sea Grant College programs conducting marine research and the sustainable development of marine resources.
Seaweb - SeaWeb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it. We aim to provide information and opinion from a broad spectrum of sources to help us all become more connected and involved in the life of the sea.

TRAVEL
BSAC Travel Club - The BSAC's own travel site - destinations, trip reports.
Scapa Flow Information - A good source of information on one of the U.K.'s premier diving sites.
Red Sea Guide - An excellent detailed guide to the sites, wrecks of the Red Sea as well as a host of other diving information for the area.
Health & Medical advice from British Airways
Florida Scuba Connection - all you need to know before planning a trip to Florida.

EXOTIC SITES
Cocos Island - One of diving's premier locations documented in good detail complete with photos.

NAUTICAL
Flags
Boating
Marine Data Net - Just about everything you want or need to know about boats. A huge online reference library kept constantly up to date for the marine boat user.
Yachting & Boating World - another excellent boat/marine related site with info on boats, weather, tides etc.
UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency
RNLI
Professional Boatmans Association - The PBA promotes safety and information for those who go to sea.
Knots - Good diagrams and visuals for this large index of how to tie knots.
Animated knots - step by step guide to knot tieing.

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO
British Society of Underwater Photographers
Great wreck photos on Leigh Bishop's site
John Liddiard's photo site
Guide for underwater photographers
Very interesting photography site for coral lumps
The Big Blue site - has some excellent photographs and video clips of underwater life in the Monterey Bay area of California. Some of the shots are taken at quite deep depth and so show creatures not often pictured.

ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology Underwater - a really excellent site detailing wreck and other dive sites mostly in French waters, particularly the south of France, but some worldwide. A really nice-looking site.
Nordic Underwater Archaeology - a wealth of information on sites in colder waters.
Seadart Divers - The story of the Halsewell wreck in Dorset.
U-Boats - the ultimate source of U-boat information.
Naval Ships - An amazing collection of photographs of Naval vessels

GENERAL
DIVE Magazine - the BSAC's journal
DIVE GIRL Magazine - something for the girls, and their boys.
Divernet - Diver magazine on-line, and much more.
Divedata - BSAC Branch Management software - free evaluation copy available.
Diveinstruct - An instructor information resource and discussion group.
Diving Medicine - Kept very regularly updated.
Equipment configuration information - very detailed
UK REC SCUBA - Lots of general information on UK diving, and a very comprehensive set of UK diving links.
Links - extremely good collection of diving related links
Treasure seekers guide - lots of links about underwater treasure seeking.
RLSSGood place to find resuscitation manikins and such...
St John Ambulance First Aid online
St John First Aid kits, Resusie annies
Excellent scuba animations