Links & Useful Information

General Resources

• UCSD - Recreation
• Ocean Enterprises

Water & Weather Conditions

• SCCOS - Scripps Pier
• NOAA - La Jolla water data
• nowCOAST
• Buoy Data
• NOAA NWS – weather
• La Jolla swell forecast
• Magic Seaweed
• San Diego Beach Water Quality

Web Cams

• Scripps Pier
• Boat Launch Area
• La Jolla Cove

Marine Field ID

• Divebums
• Slug Site – Nudibranchs

Books - Critter ID

• Daniel Gotshall - Pacific Coast Subtidal Marine Invertebrates (Great Book!)
• David Behrens - Pacific Coast Nudibranchs
• The Audubon Society - Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures

Books - Local Authors

• Judith Garfield
  The San Diego - La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve, Vol. 1: La Jolla Cove
  The San Diego - La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve, Vol. 2: La Jolla Shores and Canyon
• The Amber Forest - Ronald H. McPeak, Dale A. Glantz, Carole R. Shaw -
  Local underwater photographers created this. Have no idea if you could even find it anymore. Aqua Quest Publications, Inc., Jun 1, 1988

Other

• San Diego Lifeguard
• Another Link Page
• UCSD Diving Medicine Services

SD Lifeguard Conditions Report: 619-221-8824
SD County Beach Advisories & Closures Report: 619-338-2073

Articles

Various articles (.pdf) that new divers may find useful.

Asthma

Beach Diving: Safe Entries and Exits (link to AlertDiver)

Buddy System

Common Diver Mistakes

Decompression

Dive Fitness (AlertDiver Summer 2012)

Diving Couples

Ear & Sinus

Ear Squeeze

Heath & Fitness

More Than Darkness: Human Factors and the Night Diver (link to Dive Training)

Move Aside, Mike Nelson by Dave Barry

Hand Signs for Diving

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