Story: Diving and snorkelling
Page 6 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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CMAS World Underwater Federation
This site gives information about underwater sports such as fin swimming, underwater hockey, and spearfishing.
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Freediving page
This page describes free diving records that have been set and gives links to other sites about the sport.
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Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter & Underwater World
This site describes the ocean animals that can be seen from a diver’s eye view in the overhead aquarium and regular activities at the underwater world.
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Navy Hospital Hyperbaric Unit
This site gives information about the Royal New Zealand Navy’s unit at Devonport and the recompression treatment it provides for divers.
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New Zealand underwater
This site provides information about safe diving, diving sites, clubs, and underwater sports and events.
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PADI: the way the world learns to dive
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) develops programmes that encourage interest in scuba and snorkel diving. This site provides information about training and diving around the world.
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Wade’s world
This is the site of Wade Doak, a diver and marine conservationist, whose interests include salvage of historic wrecks, treasure diving, underwater film making and research. It gives information about his activities in these areas and Project Interlock – a study of the capacities of dolphins.
More suggestions and sources
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Doak, Wade. Ocean planet: the underwater world of Wade Doak. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Enderby, Jenny, and Tony Enderby. Diving & snorkelling New Zealand. Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2002.
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Thompson, Sue, compiler. 50 years of New Zealand underwater. Auckland: New Zealand Underwater Association, 2003.
