Recommended
Scuba diving sites worth reading
The official scuba diving sources we check ourselves, kept short on purpose. A person picks every entry and writes it up.
Official sources
Agencies, regulators and the organizations that publish the rules and the data. We use these ourselves. None of them asked to be listed and none of them link back to us.
Divers Alert Network
dan.org
The medical side of diving written for divers rather than doctors: decompression illness, fitness to dive, flying after diving, and the emergency hotline. The incident reports are worth reading too.
NOAA Coral Reef Watch
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov
Satellite sea surface temperature and bleaching alerts for reefs worldwide, updated daily. Useful for setting expectations before a trip, and for understanding why a reef you know looks different this year.
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
sanctuaries.noaa.gov
The national marine sanctuaries and what you may and may not do in each, including the wreck sites and the permit rules. Several of the best temperate dives in the country sit inside one of them.
NOAA Tides and Currents
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
Tide predictions, live water levels and current forecasts from the national network of stations. Predictions run years ahead, so this is the one to plan a trip around rather than a weather app.
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We read everything that comes in. Independent sites about scuba diving only, and a person writes the description, so there is no need to send us one.
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