Capt'Nemo Cartoon
A commercial diving comic — offshore life from back in the day.
My Swindell diving helmet
offshorediver.com has a collection of dive-hat photographs, including a shot of my old Swindell.
⚓ Diving Links & Resources
I have kept the original links for archive value. Links known to be broken, hijacked, or mainly historical are clearly marked rather than removed.
Commercial Diving
- So you want to be a Commercial diver? — read this first! Broken
- offshorediver.com has a great collection of dive-hat pictures, including a shot I gave them of my old Swindell.
- OSHA's Part 1910 Subpart T governs commercial diving operations in the United States.
- Jack Vilas & Associates Unsafe / Hijacked — original commercial diving equipment resource.
- S.U.H.A. / Sea Urchin Harvesters Association
- SubSea International / Subsea Global Solutions — commercial diving and underwater marine services.
Diving Medicine
- Hyperbaric Medicine Today journal Broken
- Divers Alert Network — scuba-diving safety and emergency medical information.
- Canada's Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM) Historical — retained for its diving research history.
Certifying Agencies
- NAUI Worldwide — National Association of Underwater Instructors.
- Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI).
- YMCA SCUBA Historical — retained for the history of the YMCA's former scuba certification program.
Diving and History
- Gulf Coast Working Equipment Group Broken / Geocities
- Little Salt Spring underwater archaeology project Legacy destination
- USS Monitor virtual artifact collection.
- Three Facets of Maritime Archaeology: Society, Landscape and Critique by Anthony Firth.
- L'Archéologie sous les mers. Techniques et recherches.
- Guide to Maritime History Information on the Internet Historical PDF
Marine Research
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — independent ocean-science research institution.
- NEMO Ocean Engine / ocean-model documentation Legacy link
- The University of Cape Town's Marine and Antarctic Research for Innovation and Sustainability (MARiS) .
- Institute of Navigation — professional society for navigation science and technology.
- NOAA.
Link-status note: “Broken” means the original URL did not return usable content during the 2026 audit. “Unsafe / Hijacked” means the old URL now redirects somewhere unrelated and should not be trusted. “Historical” or “Legacy” means the resource is retained for archival context even though the organization, program, or destination has changed.