DIVING LINKS
General
BSAC links
Decompression planning
Dive centres
Dive shops
Dive sites
Diving organisations
Equipment
Instructing
Knots
Magazines
Marine life
General:
- ukdivers.net - Very good general diving site
- ukdiving.co.uk -
- ScubaSearch.com - Diving search engine!
BSAC links:
- BSAC Home -
- Interactive learning -
- Heinke Trophy details -
- New training details -
- Instructors' Resources -
Decompression planning:
- V-planner - Decompression software using the Varying Permeability Model (VPM-B) for decompression profiles
Dive centres:
- Dive Ireland list of centres -
- Aquaholics - Portstewart, Northern Ireland (for Rathlin, Inishowen etc)
- Aquaventures - Baltimore, Co. Cork
- Dive North - Malin Head, Donegal
- DV Diving - Strangford Lough & Belfast Lough
- Dingle Marina Dive Centre - Dingle Marina, Dingle
- Scubadive West - Renvyle, Co. Galway
Dive shops:
- Ireland:
- DV Diving - Strangford Lough & Belfast Lough
- First Stage Diving - (Navan Road)
- Flagship Scuba - (Grand Canal Basin)
- Great Outdoors -
- On-line:
- UK:
Dive sites:
- Muglins and Dalkey Island -
- Dive Ireland list of sites - Information from the CFT 'Underwater Ireland' book
- Wrecks:
- Compuwreck - 'Ireland's most centralised and comprehensive catalogue of shipwrecks'
- Irish Wrecks - locations (inc. GPS marks), history etc. etc
- Operation Deadlight - Technical divers' survey of the Operation Deadlight U-boat wrecks
- Uboat.net - Comprehensive WWII U-boat site
- ukdiving.co.uk - has a wreck database with hundreds of wrecks
Diving organisations:
- British Sub Aqua Club -
- PADI - The Professional Association of Diving Instructors
- Irish Underwater Council (CFT) -
- NAUI - The National Association of Underwater Instructors
- IANTD - The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
- TDI - Technical Diving International
- CMAS - Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatiques
Equipment:
- Diving equipment introduction - from ukdivers.net
- Buying diving equipment - A guide from ukdivers.net
- Gas Diving UK - Information on equipment for nitrox & other mixed gas diving
- Bitz scuba equipment guide - Lots of information on buying diving gear
- Howstuffworks.com:
- Regulators - Visual animations of how regulators work
- Two-stroke engines - Visual animations of the workings of two-stroke engines
- Manufacturers:
- Dacor -
- Apeks Marine Equipment -
- Buddy/A.P.Valves -
- Aqua Lung -
- Beuchat -
- Cressi-Sub -
- Hunter drysuits -
- Ikelite -
- Mares -
- Oceanic -
- Poseidon Diving Systems -
- Scubapro -
- SeaQuest -
- Sherwood -
- Suunto -
- Kowalski torches -
- Uwatec -
- UK - Underwater Kinetics -
Instructing:
Knots:
- Boating Safety Page knots -
- BRMRG Knot primer - how to tie knots
- Google's knot index - more knots than I don't know what
- Six Exploding Knots! -
- NetKnots boating knots -
- Knot gallery from Tollesbury Sailing Club -
Magazines:
- Divernet - 'Diver' magazine on-line
- Immersed -
- Dive - BS-AC's own magazine
- FINS - Irish watersports magazine
Marine life:
- The Aquarium Project - Guide to sea fish in UK coastal waters
- Biomar - Homepage for the BioMar survey of Irish coastal species and biotopes
- mermaid1.demon.co.uk - Guide to marine life of the Channel Islands
- Bernard Picton's hompage - Marine invertebrates
- MarLIN - Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland - descriptions of marine species and biotopes (habitats)
- British Marine Life Study Society -
- Habitas Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland - From the Ulster Museum
