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!

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BSAC links:

• BSAC Home -
• Interactive learning -
• Heinke Trophy details -
• New training details -
• Instructors' Resources -

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Decompression planning:

• V-planner - Decompression software using the Varying Permeability Model (VPM-B) for decompression profiles

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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

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Dive shops:

• Ireland:
• DV Diving - Strangford Lough & Belfast Lough
• First Stage Diving - (Navan Road)
• Flagship Scuba - (Grand Canal Basin)
• Great Outdoors -

• On-line:
  • Simply Scuba -
  • Scuba Store -

• UK:
  • GO Dive -
  • Kent Diving -
  • Mike's Waterfront Warehouse -
  • Northampton Sub-Aqua -
  • Robin Hood Watersports -
  • SDS watersports -

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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

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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

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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 -

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Instructing:

• Visual aids for diving instructors -
• UK divers resource -

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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 -

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Magazines:

• Divernet - 'Diver' magazine on-line
• Immersed -
• Dive - BS-AC's own magazine
• FINS - Irish watersports magazine

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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

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