Downloads or interesting bits can be found below.

Click on the links to access the different bits of info.

New Member info document 

Dive log sheet 

Photographic competition rules

Dive check list 

Club Rules 

Banbury Sub-Aqua Club Logo

 

Other Links:

 
Magazines

Dive Girl

Magazine

Diver Magazine

Divernet online

Dive

BSAC journal

Dive Channel

Diving portal

Fathoms Magazine

US mag from Bret Gilliam

La Plongée Souterraine

Cave diving mag in both French and English

London Diver

Online magazine for London-based divers

Offshore Diver

US commercial diving mag

Sport Diving

PADI magazine

Underwater Contractor

Commercial diving magazine

Underwater Journal

Free online mag

Underwater Photography

Free underwater photography mag

Underwater Times

Online magazine

Wreck Diving Magazine

Deep wreck mag from the US

X-Ray

Free online mag

 

 

UK Information & Forums

 

 

 

Aberdeen Hyperbaric Centre

Chamber in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Boatlaunch

UK launching sites

British Hyperbaric Association

Useful information - map of UK chambers

British Marine Federation

Trade association for the marine industry

BSAC Wiki

General diving resource

Buddy Insurance

Equipment & travel insurance

Capernwray Dive Centre

Lancashire (up north...)

Capital Hyperbarics

London chamber, Highgate

Cromhall Quarry

Inland site

DAN

Divers Alert Network

DDRC

Diving Diseases Research Centre

Delph Diving Centre

Lancashire (up north...)

Dive Master

Equipment & travel insurance

DIR Explorers

DIR message board aka backslappers.com

The Deep Stop

Diving blogs from internet geeks

Diveindex

Dive links

Diver Mole Inspiration info

Rebreather info site

Diveshow

Information on Birmingham and LIDS

Drogon.net

SCUBA-UK & NDG mailing list archives

E-med

Medical advice for divers

Hyperbaric Medicine

Wirral Chamber

Laybourne Lake

Dive pit near Maidstone, AKA Larkfield

London Boat Show

Held at the Excel centre

London Diving Chamber

London chamber, St Johns Wood

London Hyperbaric Medicine

London chamber, Whipps Cross hospital

Maritime & Coastguard Agency

Government agency

Mixing It

Useful gas mixing page

National Diving & Activity Centre

Deep inland training site, Chepstow

Poole Hyperbaric Chamber

Dorset Recompression chamber

Rebreather World

Rebreather information forum

RNLI - GIVE THEM MONEY!

Royal National Lifeboat Institute

Scuba Divers Forum

Online community

Silver Bubbles

Book by one of our fave skippers, Pete Fergus

South West Mafia

West Country dive forum

Stoney Cove

Midlands diving pit

Subaqua

Lots of links and addresses

Tec Divers

Technical Diving forum

UK Diving

Very good for second hand gear

UK Divers Community

Forum and other stuff

UK.Rec.Scuba

Superb links page

UK Visibility

Online reports

Vobster Quay

Inland site

Westfield

Equipment & travel insurance

Wraysbury

Inland training pit near Heathrow

Yorkshire Divers

Online community

 

 

Weather/Tidal Information

 

 

 

BBC Weather Pages

Excellent information for the UK

Brighton Marina Weather

Wind speed, pressure and tidal information

Brighton Seafront Live Video

Live streaming video of Brighton seafront

Brighton Webcam Images

Real time view of Brighton seafront

Channel Weather Buoy

Real time sea state info from NOAA

Chimet

Weather from Chichester bar

Inshore Waters Forecast

From the Met Office

Intellicast

Detailed 10 day forecasts

Magic Seaweed Wind Forecast

Very useful - predictions with Beaufort Force

Metcheck

Useful weather site, includes 14 day forecasts

Met Office

Lots of Weather info 'Marine' section is v useful

Ocean Weather

Wave height, direction & temperature

Shipping Forecast

From the Met Office

Tide Tables

Tide tables for the south coast

UK Hydrographic Office

Useful tidal information

Weather Charts

Free charts for the next 5 days

Windfinder

Shoreham 7 day wind and wave prediction

Windguru

Wind prediction site

XC Weather

UK wind map

 

 

Wreck Information

 

 

 

Admiralty Wreck Database

UKHO contact for UK wreck research

Britannic Foundation

Titanic's sister ship

Divecornwall

Info on diving the Cornish coast

Diver Wreck Tours

Diving info and useful wreck diagrams

Guildhall Library

Maritime history collection

HMS Colossus

Scilly Isles wreck information

Laurentic

Donegal, Ireland

Lloyd's Register 1930-45 online

Shipping info hosted by Southampton Port

Mary Rose

Info on the ship and its raising in 1982

Mel Fisher

World famous treasure hunters site

Miramar Ship Index

Information on over 200,000 ships v useful.

National Maritime Museum

Greenwich

Naval History

Information on men, medals and ships

Plymouth Diving

Info on wrecks and reefs out of Plymouth

Receiver of Wreck

Declare those finds!

Salvage Association

Casualty survey

Shipwrecks Database

By Richard Larn

Shipwrecks Magazine

General information

Shipwrecks of Scotland

Info from Rod McDonald

South Coast Shipwrecks

Book on wrecks in the Isle of Wight area

South West Mafia Wreck List

Database of dives, lots of v good info.

Steamship Pictures

Useful for wreck research

SS Thistlegorm

Book about the famous Red Sea wreck

Submerged

Info on Devon wrecks

Sussex Wreck Diving Blog

Sussex wreck info

Tees Ships

Ship photos and info, mostly North East

TR Thompson

Brighton, a Croydon BSAC regular

U-Boat.Net

Submarine information

Wrecksite

Channel and North Sea wreck information

 

 

Diving Organisations

 

 

 

ANDI

American Nitrox Divers International

BDSG

British Diving Safety Group

BSAC

The British Sub Aqua Club's web site

BSAC London Region

Info on SDC's and Coaching Team

BSAC South East Region

Info on SDC's and Coaching Team

BSoUP

British Soc of Underwater Photographers

CDG

Cave Diving Group

DEMA

Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association

EKPP

European Karst Plain Project

GUE

Global Underwater Explorers

GUE-UK

UK arm of Global Underwater Explorers

HDS

Historical Diving Society

HSE Diving Pages

Health & Safety at Work Diving Section

IANTD

Technical training

IANTD UK

UK based technical training agency

IART

International Assoc of Rebreather Trainers

Irish Underwater Council

Irish club diving

ITDA

International Technical Diving Agency

NACD

National Association for Cave Diving (US)

NAS

Nautical Archaeology Society

NAUI

National Assoc of Underwater Instructors

NOAA

Dive section

NSS-CDS

Nat. Speleological Soc. Cave Diving Section

PADI

Professional Association of Dive Instructors

PBA

Professional Boatman's Association

PSAI

Professional Scuba Association International

PSAI UK

Professional Scuba Association Int. UK arm

RYA

Royal Yachting Association

SAA

Sub Aqua Association

SITA

Scuba Industries Trade Association

SSI

Scuba Schools International

TDI

Technical Diving International

UKSDMC

UK Sport Diving Medical Committee

UKHO

UK Hydrographic Office

 

 

Equipment Manufacturers

 

 

 

Advanced Diving Products

SMB's, lift bags etc

Airspeed Press

Oxygen Hackers Handbook

Ambient Pressure Diving

Manufacture the Inspiration rebreather

Amphibico

Camera housings

Analox

O2 analysers

Apeks

Regulators

AP Valves

Buddy BCDs and more

Aqualung

Various kit

Bare Wetsuits

Wet and Drysuits

Beaver

All sorts

C-Bear

Undersuits

CCR 200

Rebreather

CCR Technologies

Ouroborous rebreather

CPS Partnership

Metalsub torches, Waterproof wetsuits etc

Cressi-Sub

All sorts

Custom Divers

Wings. lights etc

DIR Zone

DIR gear from Germany

Dive Products

Lift bags, SMB's, reels etc

Dive Rite

Tech gear

Divex

Commercial stuff

Diving Products

Steel reels, clamps etc

DUI

Drysuits

Extreme Exposure

DIR gear

Faber

Cylinders

Fourth Element

Undersuits

Frog

DIR gear

Gavin Scooters

Expensive toys, as used by the WKPP

Greenforce

Torches

Halcyon

DIR gear

Hammond

Drysuits

IST

All sorts

JMD Technologies

Umbilical lamps

Jotron

Excellent strobe lights

KISS

Rebreather

Kowalski

Torches

Lumb Brothers

Steel stuff

Luxfer

Cylinders

McMahon

Reels

Megalodon

Rebreather

Midland Diving Equipment

Excellent valves

Miflex Xtreme Hoses

Flexible HP and LP hoses

Narked

Divewear

Northern Diver

Drysuits

Oceanic

All sorts

OMS

Tech gear

O'Neill

Suits

O'Three

Drysuits

Otter

Drysuits

Periscope Publications

Books and videos

Polar Bears

Drysuits

Poseidon

Regulators

Predator

Drysuits

Prism Topaz

Rebreather

R-Evo

Rebreather

Salvo Diving

DIR gear, excellent torches

Scubapro

All sorts

Scubatools

Regulator servicing tools from the US

Sea and Sea

All sorts

Seapro

Camera housings

Seaskin

Drysuits

Seven tenths

Dive t-shirts

Silent Submersion

Scooters

SMP

Compressor suppliers

Solus

Umbilical torches

Suunto

Computers

Tusa

All sorts

Under Pressure

Booster pumps and decanting gear

UWATEC

Computers

Vandergraph

O2 analysers

Vee Cam

Mask-mounted video set up.

VR3

Mixed gas dive computer

Waterproof

Wetsuits

Zeagle

Wings and stuff

 

 

Dive Shops & Schools

 

 

 

Alan James

Photographic equipment

Amphibian Sports

Our local dive shop,

Aquanauts

Plymouth

Aquapress

Diving related books

Brighton Dive Centre

Brighton Marina, handy for last minute fills

Cameras Underwater

Photographic equipment

Cornish Diving

Falmouth

Deep Blue Diving

Technical training with Richie Stevenson

Deep Ideas

Technical and rebreather gear

Dennis Wigg Diver Training

Technical and BSAC training

Digital Depot

Good deals on digital cameras and housings

Discovery Divers

Plymouth

Dive Action

Cornwall

Dive Connection

Portsmouth

Dive Force Marine

North London

Dive Inn

Online shop

Dive Leisure London

Battersea

Dive Life

General kit and rebreather specialists

Dive Tech

Technical training with Mark Powell

Divers Warehouse

Bradford

Diving Matrix

Technical training with Paul Toomer

Diving Niknaks

Online DIR gear

Diving Unlimited

Bexleyheath

E-Aquanauts

Technical training with Frank Bruce

EAU2

Technical training with Martin Robson

Elite Divers

Technical training

Farrworld

UK cave diving with Martin Farr

Fathoms and Blues

Portland

Ferry Inn

Accommodation in Stromness, Orkney

Forward Diving

Poole

GAS Diving

DIR technical training

Go Dive

Derby

In Deep

Mount Batten Centre, Plymouth

Inspired Training

Technical training with Mark Ellyatt

Jack Ingle

BSAC and technical training

Kent Diving

Dartford

Looe Divers

Cornwall

Mavericks Diving

Central London

Mount Batten Centre

Plymouth

Midlands Rebreather Diving

With Matt Robinson

Mulberry Divers

Selsey

Ocean Leisure

London

Ocean Optics

Photographic equipment, London

Ocean Soul Watersports

Dive training with Ian Hanness

Ocean View

Lancing

Old Harbour Dive School

Portland

Phill Short Technical

Top technical Training

Portland Oceaneering

Portland

Professional Diving Academy

Commercial training

Sandford & Down

Plymouth

SDS Watersports

Sheffield

Seaways Diving

Falmouth

Simply Scuba

Online shop

Sound Diving

Plymouth

Specialist Dive

Dorking

Timuna Sea

Canary Wharf

Underwater Centre

Fort William, commercial training

Underwater Explorers

Portland

Underwater World

Shop at Stoney Cove, Leicester

Weymouth Scuba Centre

Portland

White Diving Services

Scapa Flow technical training

Wittering Divers

Wittering

3-D Diving

Greenwich

 

 

Boats

 

 

Atlantic Diver

Newquay

Beowulf

Poole

Blue Turtle

Bridport

Boat Spaces

Book dives online - several different boats

Brendan

Lochaline, Sound of Mull

Brighton Diver II

Brighton

Cee King

Plymouth

Channel Diver

Brighton

Cornish Pussy

Falmouth

Cousin Jack

Falmouth

Deepsea

Hardboat directory

Dive 125

Eastbourne

Dive Booker

Book dives online - several different boats.

Dive Search

Map of UK dive boats

Divetime

Weymouth

Elizabeth G

Oban

Excalibur

Plymouth

Fintan

Plymouth

Huntress II

West Bay

Jennifer Ann

Torbay

Karin

Scapa Flow

Loyal Watcher

Plymouth / Northern Ireland

Maid Maggie

Plymouth

Mary Jo/Sidewinder

Swanage

Michelle Mary

Littlehampton

Mistress

Newhaven

Moonshaddow & Morvoren

Isles of Scilly

New Dawn Diver

Lymington

Obsession

Lundy

Our Joy

Littlehampton

Out-Rage

Weymouth

Pamela P

Penzance

Peregrine

Lochaline, Sound of Mull

RW Two

Weymouth

Samuel Irvine III

Dartmouth

Sark Diving Services

Channel Isles

Scimitar

Weymouth

Seabreeze 3

Brighton

Seeker

Plymouth

Sea Zones

Newhaven

Skin Deeper

Weymouth

Sunrise

Scapa Flow

Sussex

Eastbourne

Swanage Diver

Swanage

Tango

Weymouth

Tiburon

Isles of Scilly

Triton

Scapa Flow

Trojan

Portsmouth

Under Pressure

Falmouth

Wave Chieftain III

Exmouth

West Bay Diving

West Bay

Weymouth & Portland

Skippers Association

Wight Diver

Portsmouth

Wight Spirit

Lymington

 

Decompression Software/Info

 

 

DDPlan

Free program by Gordon Henderson

DecoPlanner

From GUE

DecoWeenie

By Phi Lee

Freeplanner

Free program

GAP

Freeware

HL Planner

Free program

JDeco

Deco program for mobile phones

MV PLanner

Free program, java based - runs on all platforms

My Deco Plan

Online deco planner

Nautilus Dive Planner

Program with 5 different deco models

Proplanner

From Delta-P Technology

RGBM

Reduced Gradient Bubble Model

V-Planner

By Ross Hemmingway

XS

Free program by Stuart Morrison

 

 

Rebreathers

 

 

 

Adaptive Systems

Inspiration replacement scrubber system

AP Diving Direct

Inspiration spares direct from AP

BSAC Rebreather Pages

Info from BSAC on course and recognised units

Cis Lunar MK VI Discovery

Poseidon/Bill Stone

CO2 Video

From the HSE and Sky - Don't reuse that lime!

Deep Ideas

Technical and rebreather gear

Dive Design

Inspiration metal boxes

Draeger

Semi-closed circuit rebreathers

Golem Gear

Bailout valves and various rebreather add ons

Halcyon RB80

DIR rebreather

Inspiration/Evolution/Evolution+

Ambient Pressure Diving

Juergensen Marine

Mk15 series sales and Hammerhead electronics

KISS

Jetsam

Megalodon

Innerspace Systems

Molecular Products

Sofnolime

No Bubble Diving

Rebreather information resource

Narked at 90

Custom rebreather parts

Open Revolution

Deeplife

Open Safety

CO2 monitor and Apocalypse mCCR

Optima

Dive Rite

Ouroborus

CCR Technologies

Pelagian

Rebreather Lab

Prism 2

From Hollis (Oceanic)

R-Evo

Made in Belgium

RB80 (Halcyon)

DIR rebreather

Rebreather List Archive

Old email list, stopped in 2006.

Rebreather Site

Loads of info on all units

Rebreather Solutions

Rebreather add-ons: HUD etc

Rebreather Website

Info and old mailing list archive (not up to date)

Rebreather World

Forum

Rebreatherpro

Rebreather info & training with Jill Heinerth

Sentinel

CCR Technologies

Shearwater Research

Rebreather electronics

Teledyne

Cells

Underwater Experiences HUD

Head Up Display for the Inspiration Classic

 

 

Expeditions

 

 

 

Blue Holes Project

Red Sea

Deep Image

Various UK expeditions from Leigh Bishop

Palau "Twilight Zone" Exped

Richard Pyle's pioneering expedition

Russian Caves

By Phill Short's trips to Russia

Shipwreck Films

Wrecks from Kev Pickering and Teresa Telus

Snoopy Loop

Very deep cave expeditions

Starfish Enterprise

Various deep expeditions

Starfish TNG

Nick Gilbert and Adina Ochert's deep expeds

Struma Project

Location of wreck in Turkish waters

U869

AKA U-Who?

USDCT

US Deep Cave Team led by Bill Stone

WKPP

DIR cave diving

 

Interesting Articles/Information

 

 

Aquacorps

Selected articles from the magazine

Bubble Formation & Elimination

By George Irvine

Cylinder valve dismantle and rebuild

Very useful strip down of a cylinder valve

DAN FAQ's

Bundles of diving related medical info

Deco techniques

By Kevin Gurr

Deep Diving (textbook)

Full text from Google Books

Deep stops

By Richard Pyle

DIR Equipment Configuration

From GUE

Diving Science (textbook)

Full text from Google Books

Drysuit Diving (textbook)

Full text from Google Books

Essentials of Deeper Sports Diving (textbook)

Full text from Google Books

Evolution of the DIR system

By Jarrod Jablonski

How ali diving cylinders are made

On YouTube

How steel diving cylinders are made

On YouTube

In-Water Recompression

By Richard Pyle

Kit configuration

By Kevin Gurr

Lusitania 1994

By Simon Tapson

Minimum Decompression

By George Irvine

Oxygen Window

By George Irvine

Pure oxygen or 80% for deco?

By Kevin Gurr

Rebreathers

By Richard Pyle

Rebreather Fundamentals

By Kevin Gurr

Repetitive Dives

By George Irvine

Shipwreck Diving (textbook)

Full text from Google Books

The Cave Divers

Full text from Google Books

The Decompression Curve

By George Irvine

The First Stop/Deep Stops

By George Irvine

The Wah Wah

Deep air article - scary stuff

Why not to bounce dive

By George Irvine

Why IANTD teach 80% for deco

By Tom Mount

 

 

Odds and Sods

 

Dan Burton Photography

Underwater images

Deco Stop

US online community

Nitrox Diver

Nitrox information

Red Sea Virtual Dive Centre

Egypt information

Regulator Service Manuals

For various brands

US Navy Diving Manual

Online - very useful

 

 

Marine Life and Conservation

 

 

 

ACOPS

Advisory Cttee for Protection of the Sea

BDMLR

British Divers Marine Life Rescue

CMC

Centre for Marine Conservation

Darwin Foundation

Galapagos research institute

English Nature

UK environmental protection

Friends of the Earth

International conservation pressure group

Good Beach Guide

Produced by the MCS

Greenforce

Diving and conservation projects

Greenpeace

International conservation pressure group

HEPCA

Hurghada Environment Protection & Conservation Association

London Aquarium

By the Thames in County Hall

Marine Conservation Society

Fighting for marine conservation in the UK

National Marine Aquarium

Plymouth

Operation Wallacea

Marine research projects

Raleigh International

Marine research projects

Reefwatch

Marine research projects

Seasearch

UK marine conservation project

Seaworld

US aquarium

Shark Trust

Shark conservation

The Deep

Hull Aquarium

UMBSM

University Marine Biological Station, Millport 

Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society

Conservation group

 

 

International Holiday Companies

 

 

Aggressor

Fleet of high quality liveaboards

Andy Cobb Eco-Diving

South Africa

Aquatours

Red Sea

Barefoot Traveller

Worldwide

Big Animals

Dive with sharks and whales

Blue O2

Red Sea

Dive Tours

Worldwide

Diving World

Red Sea

Emperor Divers

Red Sea

Explorers Dive

Worldwide

Full Circle

Round the world diving

H2O Dive

Worldwide

Maldives Scuba Tours

Liveaboards in the Maldives

Mike Ball

Big boats in Australia

Oonasdivers

Worldwide

Peter Hughes

Worldwide liveaboard fleet

Red Sea Divers

Land based and Liveaboards

Regal Diving

Worldwide

Scuba Safaris

Worldwide

Scubaway

Worldwide

Tony Backhurst

Liveaboards

Werner Lau

Worldwide dive centres