Dive Links
Dive Charters
- Scuttlebutt Scuba Charters
- Scuttlebutt Scuba operates from Torquay, not far from Bells Beach.
Jeff Giddins's knowledge of the area and location of many wrecks caused a bit of gossip (scuttlebutt) amongst local divers, which eventually led to the establishment of Scuttlebutt Scuba Charters.
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Dive Clubs
- Bass Strait Aquatic Club (BSAC)
- The Bass Strait Aquatic Club (BSAC) is branch number 2396 of the prestigious British Sub-Aqua Club.
Based in Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, we dive the wrecks, reefs, walls and piers of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, all year round. If you want the highest standards of training while enjoying diving in good company, then this is the club is for you.
- Cave Divers Association of Australia
- Keeping cave sites in Australia open.
The main aims and objectives of the CDAA are to foster the development, advancement, promotion, mapping, education, exploration, conservation, safety and research of underwater caves and related features.
- Dive-Oz
- Australia's biggest and most updated Australian Scuba Diving resource on the web.
- Melbourne BSAC
- Melbourne BSAC is a branch of the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) located in Australia.
We are all active divers and the club contains a bounty of Instructors, in fact about 75% of the group! We are also fortunate enough to have a National Instructor on hand to advise, assist and generally drink beer with us.
- The Sydney Project
- Diving explorers documenting the unique underwater heritage in Sydney and surrounding areas.
We are explorers; divers who wish to see what lies undiscovered in the Seas off Sydney, Australia and in the coastal waters around South Eastern Australia.
- Trimix Divers Australia
- Technical diving is the focus, but you don't have to breathe mixed gas to surf the site!
Covers cave diving, wreck diving, rebreathers and mixed gas dive sites.
- VICTECH.ORG
- Bringing together the Technical Divers of Victoria, Australia.
A resource for local information to help Technical Divers get together and/or combine resources. Safe, responsible and qualified Technical Divers, regardless of their instructor, agency or gear configuration are welcome to contribute to the site.
- Victorian Sub-Aqua Group (VSAG)
- Established in 1954 and going stronger than ever.
VSAG is Australia's oldest non-commercial scuba diving club.
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Diving Related
- Bear's Big Adventures
- Bear shares information on scuba diving.
- Bikini Atoll
- Home to the world's best wreck diving experience.
Bikini Atoll, located in the central Pacific, is one of the atolls that form the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Bikini is perhaps best known for its role in a series of nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Blue Beyond
- BlueBeyond Concepts operates the BlueBeyond.com.au website.
We focus on providing information regarding the underwater world, through articles, photography and courses and workshops regarding scuba diving and photography.
- DiveDiaries Forum
- This is a site for the wannabe, inexperienced and general diving community.
Expert advice is provided by highly qualified members of the DiveDiaries Team.
- DivingIndex
- Scuba Diving Directory.
- Oceans Enterprises
- Books by the boatload.
Oceans is your local source for books on diving not available in the chain stores.
- Rebreather World
- The home of rebreathers on the net.
The world's largest online dedicated rebreather diving forum community where hundreds of divers from around the world come to discuss all issues related to Rebreathers in thousands of posted discussions!
- Surface Interval Podcast
- An Australian diving podcast.
Surface Interval Podcast covers scuba diving, wreck diving, technical diving, underwater photography, the marine environment, diving locations and general banter on diving related topics by three Aussie scuba divers.
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Enviromental Groups
- Blue Wedges Coalition
- Blue Wedges is the voice of those who oppose the channel deepening in Port Phillip Bay.
The Blue Wedges Coalition is a community based, not for profit organisation which was formed in response to the Victorian State Government's proposed deepening of the shipping channels in Port Phillip Bay, The Rip and Yarra River.
- Greenpeace Australia Pacific
- Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace is an independent organisation campaigning to ensure a just, peaceful, sustainable environment for future generations.
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Magazines and Periodicals
- Advanced Diver Magazine
- Providing continuing education for all divers.
Your guide to newest diving techniques and technologies from Trimix wreck diving to cave exploration and rebreathers.
- Australasia Scuba Diver
- This bi-monthly magazine is the official publication of the PADI Diving Society.
- BSAC DIVE
- The official journal of the British Sub-Aqua Club.
URL: http://www.bsac.com/
- Dive Girl
- The magazine for women and scuba diving.
- Dive Log Australasia and Sport Diving
- Two excellent Australian diving magazines.
- Dive Pacific and Dive New Zealand
- The Pacific's most informative dive magazine.
This magazine is available in most Australian Newsagencies. Very good value for money and in full colour.
- DIVER Magazine
- DIVER is Britain's no.1 diving magazine.
It covers every aspect of the sport, especially in the realms of gear testing and surveys, diving holiday destinations, and advances in technology and techniques.
- Nekton
- David Strike's excellent online magazine.
Recreational, Occupational and Technical Diving is Asia and the Pacific Region.
- Scuba Diving Magazine
- The magazine divers trust.
Objective gear reviews, cutting-edge scuba training articles, underwater photograghy and video tips and unbiased dive travel information.
- ScubaRadio
- Tune in and turn on to diving!
ScubaRadio is the world's first radio show devoted to diving. It can be heard worldwide over the Internat live, archived and via Podcasting.
- Undercurrent
- Scuba diving for serious divers and scuba diving's most unbiased information source.
- Wreck Diving Magazine
- A magazine about the interests, the curiosity and the passions of wreck divers.
- X-Ray Magazine
- An international dive magazine.
It is complimentary and published in pdf-format and distributed worldwide over the internet every other month.
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Manufacturers and Distributors
- Apeks Marine Equipment
- Apeks' reputation has been earned by innovative products, designed and engineered to the highest standards.
- Ballistic Diving Products
- Robust, compact and afordable underwater lighting and other diving equipment.
Ballistic products stand the test of time, all our produts have been tested in some of the most remote, equipment damaging enviroments that seem to just destroy plastic, eat electronics and bend the unbendable.
- Faber Cylinders
- The leader in the production of seamless steel high-pressure scuba cylinders.
- McNett Corporation
- Care and maintenance products for scuba diving equipment.
- Northern Diver Australia
- Northern Diver is one of the world's elite drysuit and diving equipment manufacturers.
Made to measure and off-the-peg dry suits, undersuits and everything else needed to maximise pleasure and safety when diving.
- OMS - Ocean Management Systems
- NASA uses OMS banded BC systems in its underwater training for Astronauts.
OMS is revolutionising the future of sport and technical diving through the implementation of today's most advanced technology.
- Scubastore.com
- An online scuba store regularly used by The Scuba Doctor.
- Suunto
- Diving instruments and computers.
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Organisations and Institutions
- British Sub Aqua Club - BSAC
- BSAC is widely recognised as a leader, standard-setter and innovator in the field of sport diving.
URL: http://www.bsac.com/
- DAN - Divers Alert Network Asia-Pacific
- Your buddy in dive safety.
The Scuba Doctor recommends all travelling divers join the Divers Alert Network Asia-Pacific.
- DIVA - Dive Industry of Victoria Association
- DIVA is the representative of the Victorian diving industry.
DIVA is the diving community voice on issues affecting the Victorian dive industry and the Victorian diving environment.
- ex HMAS Canberra
- Victoria - World Class Temperate Water Diving Destination
The Victorian Artificial Reef Society (VARS) is working towards the goal that one day you will be able to come and dive the ex HMAS Canberra as an artificial reef and wreck site in Victoria, Australia.
- GUI - Global Underwater Explorers
- GUE emerged out of a shared desire to safely explore and protect the underwater world.
Working to redefine the ties binding the average underwater enthusiast to underwater explorers, conservationists and scientific researchers GUE is committed to the overall goal of promoting the interests of the underwater world and of those who seek to en
URL: http://www.gue.com/
- Marine Safety Victoria
- Victoria's marine safety agency.
- Scuba Divers Federation of Victoria - SDFV
- Supporting and representing recreational scuba diving clubs and their members.
- South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS)
- Need a dive medical. List of doctors able to perform scuba diving medicals.
In Australia you must have a Recreational SCUBA Diving Medical to Australian Standard 4005.1 within 12 months of starting a course. SPUMS lists Doctors who have completed a Diving Medical Course to be able to perform these Medicals.
- TDI/SDI Australia
- Some of diving's most experienced instructors bringing technical applications of the sport to a wider audience.
Whether your interests lie in nitrox, rebreathers, mixed gas or any of the many other programs that TDI offers you can be assured that you will be participating in training that offers you the
- Victorian Artificial Reef Society (VARS)
- Victoria - World Class Temperate Water Diving Destination
The Victorian Artificial Reef Society (VARS) is the Victorian dive community group behind the push to secure, prepare, sink and dive the ex HMAS Canberra as an artificial reef dive site for Victoria.
- Victorian Scuba Retailers Association (VSRA)
- Represents a majority of Melbourne's scuba retailers and some regional centres.
Initially brokered by PADI in response to an alarming decline in new diver certifications in this state, the Association was opened to all dive retailers regardless of certification agency immediately after it was established.
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Underwater Photography
- Sea Pics
- Sea Pics is any divers best choice for underwater or wedding photography.
David Bryant at Sea Pics is also the person to talk to if you need business cards, brochures, posters, business stationery, digital photography or graphic design.
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Weather Reports
- Bay Winds - Port Phillip Winds and Temperatures
- Port Phillip Wind Map and Temperatures updated every 5 minutes.
- BOM - Coastal Waters Forecast for Victoria
- Bureau of Meteorology Bass Strait and Victorian Coastal Waters Forecast.
- BOM - Forecast for Port Phillip and Western Port
- Bureau of Meteorology Boating Forecast for Port Phillip and Western Port
- BOM - Latest Weather Observations for Victoria
- Bureau of Meteorology Latest Weather Observations for Victoria.
- BOM - Melbourne Bay Wind Observations
- Bureau of Meteorology Port Phillip and Western Port Wind Observations.
- BOM - Melbourne Forecast
- Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne Forecast.
- BOM - Tide Predictions for Victoria
- Port Phillip Heads Tides
- Coastalwatch
- Surf cams around Australia.
Cameras, surf reports, surf forecasts, news and events.
- Patterson River Control Cam
- Patterson River Motor Boat Club - ControlCam
Live streaming video - the only camera of it's type right on the Bay.
- Point Lonsdale Web cameras
- Port of Melbourne's four cameras at the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse.
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