Scuba Diving Downloads
The Scuba Doctor is slowly building a collection of important scuba diving related files for download here. If you have something, or are looking for something, you think should be available here, then please contact us via an email to diveshop@scubadoctor.com.au.
Victoria's Dive Site GPS Marks
- Scuba Doctor Dive Map GPS Marks (KML file | 282.59 KB | 24-Feb-2021)
- Victorian Marine Protected Areas Piers and Jetties April 2013 (KML file | 609.43 KB)
Port Phillip — The Heads
- Port of Melbourne Port Phillip Entrance Hydrographic Survey (Adobe PDF | 1.78 MB)
- Port of Melbourne Rip Map (Adobe PDF | 96.43 KB) — Oblique seabed image of The Heads produced by hydrographic surveys.
- Port of Melbourne Entrance Dive Sites (Adobe PDF | 328.34 KB)
- Port Phillip Bay Heads Dive Sites Chart (Adobe PDF | 566.5 KB)
- Port Phillip Bay Entrance Map (Adobe PDF | 864.52 KB)
- Rip Bank Map (Adobe PDF | 296.7 KB)
- Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 1.23 MB)
- Divers Guide - Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 7.72 MB)
- Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park Identification Booklet (Adobe PDF | 16.34 MB)
- Steer Clear - Important safety messages for fishers in the Rip (Adobe PDF | 2.49 MB)
- Port Phillip Recreational Boating Guide (Adobe PDF | 10.32 MB) — 7th edition, June 2019
Western Port
- Western Port Recreational Boating Guide (Adobe PDF | 5.65 MB) — 5th edition, June 2011
ex HMAS Canberra Dive Site
- ex HMAS Canberra Dive Site Map (Adobe PDF | 1.48 MB)
- ex HMAS Canberra Scuttling Survey (Adobe PDF | 4.8 MB)
- ex HMAS Canberra Dive Site Visitor Guide (Adobe PDF | 301.95 KB)
- ex HMAS Canberra Dive Site Moorings Diagram (Adobe PDF | 589.26 KB)
Melbourne Dive Site Information Sheets
- Blairgowrie Jetty Diver Safety Information (Adobe PDF | 144.45 KB)
- Blairgowrie Pier Dive Zones (Adobe PDF | 394.82 KB)
- Blairgowrie Map by Brendon Edwards (Adobe PDF | 389.11 KB)
- SS Blackbird dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 584.24 KB)
- SS Casino dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 165.9 KB)
- Clarence dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 225.49 KB)
- SS Coogee dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 276.15 KB)
- Edinburgh Castle dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 327.59 KB)
- Eliza Ramsden dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 336.81 KB)
- Empress of the Sea dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 621.06 KB)
- Falls of Halladale dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 506.84 KB)
- George Roper dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 624.31 KB)
- Holyhead dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 669.91 KB)
- Hurricane dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 538.67 KB)
- J4 Submarine dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 564.76 KB)
- Joanna dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 596.47 KB)
- La Bella dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 1.34 MB)
- Loch Ard dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 705.9 KB)
- Mountain Maid dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 502.39 KB)
- Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary Map (Adobe PDF | 159.25 KB)
- Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary Management Plan (Adobe PDF | 1.16 MB)
- Port of Melbourne Popes Eye Re-located Heritage Anchors Bathymetric Survey (Adobe PDF | 4.78 MB)
- Schomberg dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 604.27 KB)
- Snorkelling Bayside: An Introduction to Snorkeling in the Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary and Nearby Waters (Adobe PDF | 1.58 MB)
- Victoria Tower dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 542.03 KB)
- SS Wauchope dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 489.14 KB)
- William Salthouse dive information sheet (Adobe PDF | 598.18 KB)
Marine Life Identification
- Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary Identification Booklet Third Edition (Adobe PDF | 4.42 MB)
- Marine Care Ricketts Point Fish Identification Chart (Adobe PDF | 1.63 MB)
- Parks Victoria: Marine Pests
(Adobe PDF | 923.94 KB)
— A Threat to Port Phillip & Western Port Marine Protected Areas - Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park Identification Booklet (Adobe PDF | 16.34 MB)
- Victorian Redmap Species ID Sheet (Adobe PDF | 5.01 MB)
- The Urban Sanctuary. Algae and Marine Invertebrates of Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 3.48 MB)
- Victorian National Parks Association: Great Victorian Fish Count Species List (Adobe PDF | 387.99 KB)
See also Taxonomic Toolkit For Marine Life Of Port Phillip Bay.
Marine Park Identification
- Victorian Marine Protected Areas Piers and Jetties April 2013 (KML file | 609.43 KB)
- Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Coordinates (Adobe PDF | 368.76 KB)
- Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary Divers Guide (Adobe PDF | 1.42 MB)
- Divers Guide - Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 7.72 MB)
Parks Victoria Park Notes, Visitor Guides
& Management Plans
- Park Note: Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 221.67 KB)
- Park Note: Bass Coast Parks and Reserves (Adobe PDF | 379.69 KB)
- Park Note: Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 356.52 KB)
- Park Note: Enjoying the Bunurong Coast (Adobe PDF | 1.34 MB)
- Park Note: Cape Howe Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 877.15 KB)
- Park Note: Cape Liptrap Coastal Park (Adobe PDF | 877.52 KB)
- Park Note: Corner Inlet and Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Parks (Adobe PDF | 791.93 KB)
- Park Note: Discovery Bay Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 868.45 KB)
- Park Note: Eagle Rock Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 764.8 KB)
- Park Note: Ex-HMAS Canberra Dive Site (Adobe PDF | 933.3 KB)
- Park Note: Great Otway National Park
(Adobe PDF | 3.83 MB)
— Great Otway National Park and Otway Forest Park: East Otways - Torquay to Kennett River - Park Note: Jawbone Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 266.24 KB)
- Park Note: Marengo Reefs Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 2.41 MB)
- Park Note: Merri Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 783.82 KB)
- Park Note: Ninety Mile Beach Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 333.13 KB)
- Park Note: Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 619.98 KB)
- Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary Visitor Guide (Adobe PDF | 628.2 KB)
- Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
(Adobe PDF | 1.16 MB)
— April 2007 - Park Note: Point Addis Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 859.4 KB)
- Park Note: Point Hicks Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 349.22 KB)
- Park Note: Point Nepean National Park (Adobe PDF | 654.42 KB)
- Park Note: Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park (Adobe PDF | 460.64 KB)
- Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park Visitor Guide (Adobe PDF | 1.55 MB)
- Park Note: Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 240.76 KB)
- Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary Visitor Guide (Adobe PDF | 687.1 KB)
- Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary Management Plan
(Adobe PDF | 4.55 MB)
— November 2005 - Park Note: Shallow Inlet Marine Coastal Park (Adobe PDF | 400.32 KB)
- Park Note: Twelve Apostles Marine National Park, The Arches Marine Sanctuary (Adobe PDF | 2.67 MB)
- Park Note: Weedy Seadragon (Adobe PDF | 361.67 KB)
- Park Note: Western Port Marine National Parks (Adobe PDF | 1.16 MB)
- Yaringa Marine National Park, French Island Marine National Park, Churchill Island Marine National Park Mangement Plan
(Adobe PDF | 4.57 MB)
— December 2007 - Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park Visitor Guide
(Adobe PDF | 4.87 MB)
— September 2019 - Park Note: Wilsons Promontory National Park Visitor Guide
(Adobe PDF | 1.86 MB)
— October 2011
Bikini Atoll
- Operation Crossroads: The Official Pictorial Record (Adobe PDF | 10.58 MB)
- USS Saratoga CV-3 Booklet of General Plans (Adobe PDF | 12.86 MB)
Dive Boat Related
- VSAG Recommended Club Dive Boat Equipment (Adobe PDF | 170.77 KB) — November 2012
- Guidelines for the safe operation of member club dive boats from the Combined Diving Association (CDA) (Adobe PDF | 242.4 KB) — UK publication, October 2017
- BSAC Voyage Planning Sheet (Adobe PDF | 55.38 KB)
- Victorian Recreational Boating Safety Handbook (Adobe PDF | 14.08 MB) — A downloadable version of Marine Safety Victoria's Victorian Recreational Boating Safety Handbook, July 2020.
- Safety Equipment, July 2012 (Adobe PDF | 1.77 MB) — Factsheet on Maritime Safety from Transport Safety Victoria.
- Victorian Marine Safety Act 2010 (Adobe PDF | 979.83 KB)
- Victorian Marine Safety Regulations 2012 (Adobe PDF | 1.06 MB)
- Harbour Master's Directions for port waters of the Port of Melbourne (Adobe PDF | 2.74 MB) — 11th edition, May 2019
- Port Information Guide for the Port of Melbourne (Adobe PDF | 7.68 MB) — 4th edition, effective from 23 March 2018
- Port Phillip Recreational Boating Guide (Adobe PDF | 10.32 MB) — 7th edition, June 2019
- Western Port Recreational Boating Guide (Adobe PDF | 5.65 MB) — 5th edition, June 2011
- Raydon Boat Safety and Dive Equipment (Adobe PDF | 281.3 KB) — An example information sheet. Create your own version, print and laminate it, and keep it on your dive boat.
- Raydon Dive and Boat Captain Information Sheet (Adobe PDF | 197.78 KB) — An example emergency information sheet. Create your own version, print and laminate it, and keep it on your dive boat.
- Raydon Boat Participation Agreement and Consumer Waiver (Adobe PDF | 15.68 KB) — Every time you have divers coming out to participate in scuba diving activities from your dive boat ask them to read, understand and consent to the terms of a Boat Participation Agreement and Consumer Waiver. Create your own version, print and laminate it. Keep it clearly displayed on your dive boat.
- Raydon Boat Diving Consent Form (Adobe PDF | 155.5 KB) — Create your own version, print copies and have every diver coming out to participate in scuba diving activities from your dive boat read, understand and sign it.
- Dive Management Sheet (Adobe PDF | 388.58 KB) — Use this form to record what happens on each dive from your dive boat.
- Radio Safety Information (Adobe PDF | 403.94 KB) — How to make an emergency radio call. Print and laminate this and keep it on your dive boat.
Technical Diving
- Decompression Dive Planner (Adobe PDF | 23.27 KB) — Worksheet used to plan technical/decompression dives.
- CNS Percentage Tracking (Adobe PDF | 15.98 KB) — Table used to find the percentage CNS oxygen toxicity dose for a dive.
- NASA Procedures for Cleaning of Systems and Equipment for Oxygen Service (Adobe PDF | 122.94 KB) — July 2001.
- PADI TechRec Hand Signals (Adobe PDF | 521.5 KB) — The important hand signals recommended by PADI for technical diving.
- Scuba O-Ring Sizes Chart (Adobe PDF | 356.37 KB) — Chart showing scuba diving O-ring sizes.
- The Safe Use of Gas Cylinders (Adobe PDF | 192.14 KB) — UK Health and Safety Executive publication on the safe use of gas cylinders. The leaflet is aimed at anyone who manufactures, owns, fills, repairs or uses gas cylinders at work. Discusses foreign legislation, but still relevant here in Australia.
Scuba Diving and Snorkelling Guidelines
- WorkSafe Victoria: Recreational scuba diving and snorkelling (Adobe PDF | 1.05 MB)
- Workplace Health and Safety Queensland: Recreational Diving, Recreational Technical Diving and Snorkelling Code of Practice 2018 (Adobe PDF | 620.77 KB)
General Diving Information
- SDFV Codes of Practice 2005 (Adobe PDF | 62.35 KB) — Scuba Divers Federation of Victoria general operating guidelines for recreational scuba diving and related activities.
- U.S. Navy Diving Manual - Revision 7 (Adobe PDF | 13.59 MB) — The U.S. Navy Diving Manual is a very complete reference on diving based on the extensive research and experience of the U.S. Navy. The manual contains major sections covering rebreathers, no-decompression diving, open-circuit SCUBA, surface-supplied diving, the diving environment, Navy dive procedures, physics, physiology and recompression chamber operation. The U.S. Navy Diving Manual underwent some significant updates with the sixth revision issued in April 2008. One major change is their decompression procedures and the introduction of a revised decompression algorithm and table. Although much of the information is interesting, it may have limited application to your recreational diving. Still, recreational diving has some of its roots in the almost 1000 pages of this document. Best of all, it's available at no charge because it was developed with US taxpayer funds. The file is large, 14 MB, so best to right click on the link and "Save..." it to your hard drive rather than open it in the browser.
- NOAA Diving Standards and Safety Manual - April 2017 (Adobe PDF | 20.59 MB) — This document represents the minimum safety standards for diving under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as of the approval date of this manual.
COVID-19 and Diving
- UK HSE: Cleaning of diving equipment (Adobe PDF | 34.92 KB) — Diving Information Sheet No 12 (rev1).
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