Hyperbarics
International - Advanced Diving Medical, Hyperbaric Chamber Operations
and Undersea Medical Team Training Programs For Physicans, Diving Medical Officers, Diving
Medical Technologists and Diving Chamber Supervisors and Operators.
Naval Surface
Warfare Center (Carderock Division) has a home page for the Submarine Systems
Department. They provide Acquisition, Life Cycle Management, In-Service Engineering,
Design, Test and Evaluation for maritime systems.
The Accrediting Commission
of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT) was created to maintain
educational excellence and integrity its member schools. ACCSCT accredits nearly 900
postsecondary schools and colleges in the United States, including some member schools of
the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE).
The International Maritime
Organization is the United Nations' specialized agency responsible for improving
maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships. IMO's website includes: The ISM Code,
IMO Conventions and News, IMO Library, publications catalogue and much more.
The Commerce Business
Daily lists notices of proposed government procurements and requests for bids. All
Federal procurement offices are required to announce in the CBD proposed procurement
actions over $25,000, as well as contract awards over $25,000 that are likely to result in
the award of any subcontracts. There also exists a searchable form.
The NOAA Diving Program
(NDP) is headquartered at the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle, Washington. NOAA's
mission requires a variety of tasks be carried out underwater by NOAA scientists,
engineers, and technicians that are trained and certified to dive as needed. With more
than 300 active divers, NOAA has the largest complement of divers of any civilian Federal
agency.
NavyOnLine has dozens
of links that act as a cyberspace gateway to United States Department of the Navy.
As one of the world's leading maritime classification
societies, Det NorskeVeritas establishes Rules for the
construction of ships and mobile offshore platforms.
Click here to visit the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).
NOAA's National
Undersea Research Center supports in situ research using divers, ROVs, underwater
laboratories and manned submersibles. The site even features an MPEG of an ROV in action!
NASA has a Web Page bio of astronaut and former commercial
diver Mike Gernhardt.
The Diving
Medicine page offers an archive of articles on the study, diagnosis and treatment of
illnesses related to the undersea environment. This page is derived from 30+ years of
experience by Scuba Times Online. The author is one of the online diving medical doctors.
The Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society (UHMS) is the primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric
medicine and physiology worldwide. It was founded in 1967.
Dive Rescue
International is a certifying agency that provides RSTC and NFPA 1670
compliant training programs to members of the EMS, fire and law enforcement
services. We offer 28 programs that encompass all aspects of aquatic rescue,
recovery and investigation.
HSE's
"Hazards at Work - Diving" is a rich source of information on UK diving
regulations, with sections on diving system winches, breathing gas management, chambers,
and bells.
This resource provides information of interest to public
safety divers. DiveRescue.COM is maintained by
Chris Hemingson, president of the Whatcom County, WA Dive Rescue team.
Sub Ocean Safety--We
exposed the human rights issue of diver abuse in the developing nations. Learn more about
this problem and our organization's efforts, as well as hyperbaric medicine and diving
safety.
The Institute of Diving
is an independent, voluntary, educational, non-profit corporation that operates the Museum
of Man in the Sea in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Ocean
Planet is an impressive cyber-exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Natural History.
"The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident,
a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten." So
begins 20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea by Jules Verne, the entire text of this underwater classic is available
on the web.
Does anyone remember the TV show "Diver Dan"?
Debuting in 1960, it was an interesting and unusual children's TV show. "Caught in an
era, somewhere between Kukla, Fran & Ollie and Stingray, Diver Dan reflects a gentler
time..." states this webpage
dedicated to the show, which featured hardhat diver "Dan" and his beautiful
and elusive mermaid "Miss Minerva."
You will enjoy Mel
Fisher's Treasure Hunting Exhibit. The site features the fabulous treasure of the
Atocha, Santa Margarita, and other amazing shipwrecks discovered by Mel Fisher, the
self-proclaimed "world's greatest treasure hunter."
A page dedicated to the Bravest Fighting Men who ever walked
the Earth, the U.S. Navy SEALs.
Underwater with an attitude!
Navy frogman Buster Crabb was the subject of a
major Cold War incident when he disappeared in the water during a covert mission. Wild
rumours circulated, suggesting that Crabb had been abducted by the Russians. Now the
former head of Soviet Naval Intelligence reveals what really happened.
Dirk Pitt is the well
known alter-ego of Clive Cussler, both underwater adventurers and bearers of the wreck
diving banner to the world. Diver Magazine writer Stephen Weir reflects on Cussler, who
first dove in 1951 while in the Navy, and later founded the National Underwater &
Marine Agency (NUMA).
