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Luc in French Kiss (1995)
Promotes the #1 dive rule: Never dive alone. A free registry of more than 455 divers so you can find a buddy to dive with anywhere you want to go. Encourages divers to register and exchange ideas and tips on underwater photography, dive gear, dive locations, and any other dive-related topic of interest.
According the homepage, this was the U.K.’s first Internet directory dedicated to scuba diving. Includes a list of dive shops and clubs, a lost and found registry, and a for sale database. Although the information here is copyrighted, the site encourages visitors to print anything they find helpful for personal or club use.
Offers dive packages to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Red Sea, the Florida Keys, and every location imaginable in the Caribbean. Contains an online edition of DiveTravel magazine and includes advisor, planner, world directory, travel agents, and information exchange pages.
Dedicated to the dive industry, this site supplies information on how to become a diver, industry news, how to become a DEMA member for those involved in the commercial side of the dive business, and continuing education for certified divers. Also provides information on the annual DEMA trade show in California.
The site of this organization dedicated to making scuba more accessible to people with physical challenges appears to be updated frequently. It offers a quarterly journal, travel schedule, guides to wheelchair-accessible dive resorts, an HSA instructor locator page, and training course information for divers interested in becoming an HSA dive instructor.
Organization founded by a physical therapist to form a group of able-bodied and physically disabled divers. Has more than 100 members and offers certification classes at M.I.T., many local activities in the New England area, and an annual tropical vacation to wheelchair-accessible destinations.
A fantastic site with incredibly current information. Updated daily—it even played Christmas music and listed suggested Christmas gifts for divers when I visited the site in November. Offers the usual dive center listings, BBSs, product catalogs, news, and course listings and a wide range of information beyond the usual—a fish quiz to test your knowledge, a map of the ocean floor from NOAA, dive insurance, and more.
Visitors are offered a free trial subscription to “SCUBA Daily News.” Also supplies a guide to dive-related books available on the Web, a humorous top 10 list, and a helpful “Scuba Divers Handbook.”
A slick, high-energy site with cool background music and sound bites to pump you up. Primarily a ski club, the site also includes scuba diving, water skiing, tubing, roller blading, hiking, biking, camping, vacationing, and partying pages. You get the feeling that these people are quite actively seeking a great time, all the time. With its schedule of trips and monthly meetings complete with open bar, this is the perfect site for anyone who wants to meet people and become active around the Scottsdale, Arizona area.
The best feature is a Medical Center page with common questions and answers, tips, quizzes, and information from doctors who will answer divers’ medical questions. Also has articles on scuba topics, lots of classified ads, and an offer for a free issue of the actual magazine.
Encourages active participation from divers. Requests that visitors submit diving-related articles or stories of interest. It offers classified ads, a buddy directory, chat room, and photos.
This organization was founded more than 20 years ago by various British dive clubs to promote diving issues nationally. The site is extrememly professional and detailed, including an URL minder service to notify you via email any time the site it updated.
This site offers a link to its featured dive site of the week. Also contains a newsletter, schedule of excursions, underwater photos and video, and directory of dive shops throughout the U.S.
A visually fun site with an island theme. Click the diver as it swims across your screen to see cool facts of interest to divers. Offers an in-depth look at the Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute, which was founded by the oldest son of the infamous Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Also contains standard business information about the company’s catalog, dealer locations, and company contacts.
A good source of general information such as a list of courses offered at the Y. It also contains instructions on how to replace a lost C-card, which is a requirement for any diver. This site offers a quarterly journal too.
http://deckard.mc.duke.edu/scuba/
http://jwa.com/scubapro/scubapro.html
http://www.ats.com.au/%7Ekingy/
http://matrix.infomatch.com/scuba/