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Scuba Diving


Underwater Digital Cameras
Find the best gear to record your underwater adventures. Cameras are now available for all skill levels and budgets.

 

Alaska Underwater Adventures
Located at Whittier, offering scuba classes and tours.

Cold Water Diving and Hypothermia
This provides a good entry point to an excellent divers' medical site.

Dive Alaska
With a retail dive shop in Anchorage and a charter base at Seward, Dive Alaska provides a full range of sales, training, charter boat trips, gas fills, and rental equipment, as well as world-wide dive travel opportunities.

Dive Alaska
Based in Juneau, Art Sutch and Peter Metcalfe offer wreck, wildlife and photography and general dives with the 31-foot Silver Bay.

Institute of Archaeology
This branch of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) offers training in maritime archaeology, and their Web site has a great deal of information on projects.

The Kravel Project
A very well-illustrated report on the discovery and archaeological survey of a 500-year-old carvel near Stockholm.

Maritime Archaeology in Northwest Russia
A brief look at the challenges faced, and progess in the field in Russia, by Peter Sorokin.

Nordic & Baltic Shipwrecks and Shipfinds
A fabulous resource of underwater archaeological discoveries and current projects. Lots of photos and graphics.

Nordic Underwater Archaeology
Per Åkesson provides an excellent access point to the field, as well as many original articles on techniques and discoveries.

Norwegian Underwater Federation
The NDF has a summary of Norway's diving regulations in English - most of the site's extensive information is in Norwegian only.

Scapa Flow - the Wrecks
Richard Knights has posted a great deal of information on, and photos of, the ships.

The St. Mikael
She sank in 1747 while carrying luxury goods from Amsterdam to St Petersburg, and was discovered off Borstö Island, Finland in 1953.

Sub Arctic Scuba
Located in Whitehorse, Yukon, offering courses and gear.

Submarine S7
The S7, found in July 1998, was torpedoed off the Swedish coast in October 1942.

Swedish Underwater Federation
The SSDF has a summary of conditions in English - the Swedish part of the site has extensive resources.

Viking Ship Found in Russian Waters
A brief description and photo of a 9th- or 10th-Century Viking ship found near Vyborg in the summer of 1997.

Yukon Dive Buddies
A listing of people who are interested in being your dive partner.


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