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The New England Aquarium's hotline for any stranded marine animal is (617) 973-5247
All reports of living or dead marine animals should be reported to the hotline #, which is manned 24/7. Land animals and marine birds should be reported to town/city animal control.
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Tide tables

Maine Harbors Website
Excellent site for current weather and long-range tidal and moon charts. The site also includes webcams of several new england coasts

Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System.
Compare up to three buoy conditions side by side

Diving Resources
Common Hand Signals (Adobe Acrobat required)
The Recreational Scuba Training Council has put together a list of common hand signals in diving. It's a good way to refresh your memory for communication skills.
 
Local diving services
All Local Dive Stores are now on the Dive Store Locator It a comprehensive listing of all dive stores in the New England area.
Boston Diver Services
Boat Diving charter, sailing from Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina in East Boston.
Boston Harbor Diving Company
Boat diving and SCUBA instruction. Sailing out of Winthrop.
Easy Diver Charters & Instruction
Dive with New England scuba pioneer Capt. Fred Calhoun.
 
Travel Services

Aggressor Fleet
Live-aboard diving around the world.

Australia Underwater
Scuba diving portal for Australia. Comprehensive information on dive shops, boats, gear and more -
community meeting place for divers and marine enthusiasts.

Casa De Leyendas
Bed & Breakfast in Mazatlan, Mexico that caters to groups - including scuba clubs

Kangaroo Island Diving Safaris
The Leafy Sea Dragon Specialists.

ShoreDiving.Com
Shore diving sites in the US, Canada, and world-wide.

Nova Scotia Underwater Council Homepage
Information about diving in Canada
 
Websites

About Scuba
Melissa Rodriguez's diving resources.

Blue Sphere Pubs
Home of just about everything you need to scuba dive in New England, by the publishers of: A Shore Diving Guide to New England

Dive Inn links page
A useful collection of SCUBA-related links.

Dive the USA
Domestic dive sites, club list, Scuba Yellow Pages, and more

Divers Down
The web site for the popular TV show.

DiversJobs
A scuba jobsite on the net, that allows employers and job seekers to find a job in the dive industry worldwide
Deep South Divers Training videos
Videos illustrating different kicks, emergency drills, and DIR.
Earthdive
A global research project for millions of recreational scuba divers to report fish sightings

National Data Buoy Center -Northeast
Listing of all the NOAA monitoring buoys with access to current conditions

New England Sports Portal
Links to dive clubs in the US and Canada.

Oceanic Dive Locker
A service by Oceanic that allows divers to log dives, keep track of their equipment, warranty information, insurance details, and other items that need to be recorded. This can be accessed anywhere that has an internet connection, and best of all, it's FREE.

ScubaDoc - Diving Medicine Online and WebLog.
Comprehensive information about diving and undersea medicine. Excellent section on ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) problems and equalizing.

Scuba New England
"The complete scuba diving resource" for Mass, RI, NH, Conn, Maine, & Vermont.

Shipwrecks of New England
A collection of resources for shipwrecks off our coasts

ShoreDiving.Com Clubs Page
Links to dive clubs in the US and Canada.

World Wide Scuba Dive Directory
A great international dive reference site.

Groovy Adventures
Listing for clubs and organizations for many outdoor activities, including scuba diving
 
Diving-related organizations
Burlington Scuba Club
Club in association with the Burlington Scuba Store
DAN - Divers Alert Network
The best source for diving safety, diving health, and diving physiology information
MAINE-iacs
A Maine Dive club based in the Mid-coastal Maine area
Merrimack Valley Dive Club
A scuba club based in northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
Metro West Dive Club
Dive club based in Framingham that meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. They have a great page on Shipwrecks.
Ocean Research Group
Club member Jonathon Bird, a frequent speaker at NEADC meetings, heads this environmental organization specializing in educational films, TV shows, and products
SECONN Dive Club
A dive club covering Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Secret Squirrel Divers
New England Dive Club, what more can I say, their moto is: "Keep Your Nuts Dry And Your Tail High"
Ships2reefs
DEMA organization dedicated to converting the 400+ decommissioned US Ships to artificial reefs. If you want that divable destroyer in Massachusetts waters, this is where to go to find out how!

Nervous Wrecks Dive Club
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

North Shore Frogmen
Local diving club on the operating for the past 40 years, based in Beverly

At The Water’s Edge, Inc and Pioneer Valley Dive Club
Dive shop and club located in Westfield, MA
South Shore Neptunes
Fifty year old Dive Club headquartered in Quincy. Meetings are the first and third Tuesday of the month.
United divers of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Diving club
United Divers of Central Mass
Dive Club based in Worcester, and serving all of Massachusetts. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of every month in Lunenburg MA.
 
Equipment

How to buy Dive Gear
A listing of several guides from a California Dive shop. Includes info on what to look for and how to size different pieces of equipment.

How to Buy a Scuba Tank
Pros and cons of aluminium and Steel, and everything you ever wanted to know about tanks.

Dive Inn
Quick-erecting privacy enclosure.

 
Where to Dive
Cape Ann Divers's website
Listing and map of sites in the Gloucester area
MIT Scuba Club Website
Listings for Massachusetts, Cape Ann, Maine, New Hampshire Sites, and Rhode Island Sites
Shorediving.com Listing for New England
User reviews of dive sites in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Diving in Atlantic Canada
This site lists some of the resources available for diving in eastern Canada.
Scuba-Newengland's website
Listing for sites in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
 
Diving Tips
Beat the Cold: 8 Hot Tips, Cold Comfort and How To Stay Warm Between Dives
Recent articles in Scuba Diving magazine on ways to keep warm and minimize heat loss
Dive Fitness
Articles, training tips, fitness news, and even a weekly workout schedule for divers.
 
WebCams -realtime views of coastal areas -great for checking vis
Rockport Harbor Webcam
Someone has a camera set up overlooking Rockport Harbor

Maine Harbors index
Collection of New England Cameras

Gloucester Harbor
Above water view of Gloucester Harbor
SeaTowBoston (requires program download) Website
Excellent site with a webcam, windspeed, direction, and other realtime weather info