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Welcome to the
Official Website of the
World Diving AssociationTM
and
World Diving GuideTM
Our Mission: Diving Fun,
Travel, Education and Safety
The World Diving AssociationTM (WDA)
is a volunteer organization developed to serve the interests of SCUBA, skin and free
divers around the world. Whether you're a recreational or professional
diver, you will find valuable diving information on this directory website. Bookmark this page for easy future reference.
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Website Features:
World Diving GuideTM
Whether you are planning a dive trip vacation or looking for travel ideas,
you have come to the right place. You
will find information and links on world-wide diving
locations, sites, dive trip operators, dive equipment shops, diving resorts,
dive charters, live aboards, area maps, tourist information, dive travel agencies and travel warnings / advisories on the
World
Diving GuideTM.
There are listings for the United States, Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Pacific
Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, South Africa and more. Click the link and begin your diving adventure.
There is also a list of USA commercial divers / marine construction
businesses.
Tsunami Disaster and Donation Information
Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been so
gravely affected by the earthquake and
Tsunami
that hit many areas of Asia and east Africa. Here is a listing of a few
websites that can provide additional information, as well as accept donations to
help those affected by this disaster.
Travel Alerts & Advisories
Are you planning to travel? VERY IMPORTANT: Be sure to check
for government issued
Travel Warnings and advisories for the countries where you
will be traveling. We have listings for government agencies from
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the USA.
Tsunami disaster related travel information can be found on
the USA government websites listed on the
Travel
Alerts webpage.
Equipment Manufacturers & Recalls
Looking for diving equipment? We have a extensive list of dive
Equipment
manufacturers and important scuba equipment
Recall warnings.
Education / Scuba Lessons
Check out the Diver Training area for information on diver
certification & instruction programs for recreational, technical and
professional divers.
There is also a list of youth summer dive camps.
Diver Insurance
The diver medical
Insurance companies
section has listings and
information on why you may need the protection these insurance programs offer.
Dive Magazines
This area contains an broad listing of diving
Magazines and dive book publishers.
Diving Clubs
Want to meet other divers, make new friendships, do group dive trips and most
of all, have fun?! Check out a
Diving Club in your area.
If there is not one near you, most dive clubs welcome out-of-town members to
join in their activities and trips. If you are in a diving club that is not listed
here, let us know and we will post the club's information for free.
Forum Board
Our divers
Forum Board / Ads is a free message board which allows visitors to read messages or post questions
and answers for other divers. It is a great place to tell others about
great diving trips you have had or caution other divers about bad diving
experiences. Share your thoughts and suggestions.
Recommend your favorite (or least favorite) diving equipment.
Free Classified Ads
You can post free classified ad listings to sell
your used diving equipment, post dive job listings or look for a dive buddy on our
Forum Board / Ads. Please do
not list new equipment for sale on the forum. For individuals, we suggest
posting an email address in the ad and not your phone number.
**Caution - Buy at your own risk. Disclaimer: We accept no
liability for problems and make no implied or explicit warranties or safety
guarantees on equipment sold by individuals or businesses on our forum or on our
websites.
Chat Room
The Chat Room is a great place to chat live with other divers
and make new friends. Share your knowledge and experiences with others.
Make new friends and dive buddies. This is similar to our forum, but
instead it is live online.
Pictures
Check out these beautiful diving pictures of interesting saltwater
fish, sharks, dolphins, freshwater fish, and other unusual marine life forms.
These fascinating creatures are the reason most of us love to dive! The
three categories are Fish
Pictures, Shark
Pictures and
Marine Life Photos. These
pages may take a couple of minutes to download over slow connection speeds due to multiple photos on each page.
The shark pictures webpage contains links to other websites with more
information about sharks.
ATTN: Diving Writers / Journalists / Tourism Agencies
If you are a writer that would like to have your informational article related
to scuba diving or travel posted on this website, please
Contact Us or e-mail the article
to the webmaster. You are
welcome to promote a diving-related business or travel destination within the article. We retain the exclusive right to edit, modify or
reject any article as we may determine in our sole opinion is appropriate for
this website. Photographers, if think you have pictures that would be
beneficial for this website please contact us and we may consider posting your
pictures. Although we don't buy pictures, we will give the photographer
proper credit and a link if we use the pictures.
Advertise your Business
Do you have a diving-related business? Want to promote your
business or service to divers around the world in an very cost effective and
targeted manner? Visit the
Advertise Here area to find out about the
options. Our paid advertising rates are a small fraction of what you would pay
for traditional print advertising. Best of all, we will even post your
diving-related business on our website in a basic listing that is FREE of
monthly charges. See the corresponding webpage for full details.
Some types of businesses may be excluded from this offer. This offer may be
discontinued or changed at any time without notice.
Language Translation of our web pages - the World
Diving Association website is multilingual.
For our international visitors, we are pleased to be able to offer 2
website language translation options. For translation of our web pages
from English into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German,
Chinese, Japanese or Korean, just click the appropriate flag on Altavista's Babel Fish at the bottom of
the page. Alternatively, you can use Google
Language Tools for translation into Spanish, German, French, Italian or
Portuguese. Then copy and paste the web page URL you want
translated into their language translator.
Note: It is not known if the language translation programs are accurate.
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Note: We are continually adding new information, features and refinements.
Come back again in the future and watch us grow!
This website is best viewed over a high speed internet connection. In the
future we will be offering a lower graphic intensive version of this website for
visitors with low speed dial-up internet connections.
 Urgent: Did you receive
"spam", "junk mail" or an email with a possible virus attachment supposedly sent
to you from the "worlddivingassociation.com"?
We did not send it!
Please be aware that someone or multiple people have been falsely using our website
email address to send spam and emails with possible viruses. Our email
system has been swamped in spam and returned emails with attachments that we did
not send. We do not spam and do not send unrequested attachments in our
emails. Our apologies if this email problem has affected you.
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