Follow the link below to find some invaluable information on the weather and sea conditions for the New Jersey and Long Island diving areas.
Shaun
]]>Please follow the link below for a list of the UK recompression chambers and their contact details.
Shaun
http://londondivingchamber.co.uk/index.php?id=contact&page=11®ion=5&country=63
]]>Our Hyperbaric Treatment Centres in London and Great Yarmouth offer first class facilities and highly motivated teams of experts in Diving Medicine. If you are concerned that either you or your buddy may have decompression illness you will certainly want expert advice.
Who do I call for advice ?
Call DES-UK on 07740 251 635 (24hrs)
or our office 020 8539 1222 between 08.30 and 17.00 Mon to Friday
We are here to help you!
Our Recompression Facilities are unique in the UK in that they are modern privately run Hyperbaric Centres based inside NHS-District General Hospitals. We work in partnership with our host hospitals, enabling our patients direct access to all supporting services necessary for the proper treatment of DCI.
After the treatment divers will be asked to attend a follow-up appointment and advised on the best and safest way to continue with their hobby at the earliest possible opportunity.
]]>Found this site with useful info on Tide times etc for the UK and elsewhere.
If you know of or use others then post them on here.
Shaun
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/SelectPort.aspx
]]>The Government of the United Kingdom assumes responsibility for civilan Search and Rescue (SAR) within the UK and its aviation and maritime Search and Rescue Regions. The maritime responsibility arises from the UK Government’s acceptance of the Convention of the High Seas 1958, of the International Conventions of Safety of Life at Sea 1960 and 1974, and of the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue 1979 (as amended). The lead Government Department for UKSAR is the Department for Transport (DfT), which delegates the authority for responding to maritime incidents to HM Coastguard by the authority of the Coastguard Act 1925.
HM Coastguard is an on-call emergency organisation responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of all civilian maritime SAR within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region. This includes the mobilisation, organisation and tasking of adequate resources to respond to persons either in distress at sea, or to persons at risk of injury or death on the cliffs or shoreline of the United Kingdom.
The 19 Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres (MRCCs) around the UK Coast form a network of command and control centres for responding to reports of maritime and coastal distress. MRCC watch-keeping staff provide a 24 hour service to mariners and coast users in receiving incoming disress calls, alerting the appropriate rescue assets, and co-ordinating the rescue effort.
Dover Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre is responsible for Search and Rescue for incidents from Herne Bay to Beachy Head and out into the Dover Strait to the border with the French maritime Search and Rescue Region. The MRCC also has responsibility for the Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS)
The objectives of HM Coastguard are as follows:
to respond to requests for assistance from, or for, vessels or persons in distress or potential distress, including those vessels or persons missing at sea or on the coastline;
to respond in conjunction with the MCA’s Counter-Pollution and Response Branch to reports of actual or potential threats of maritime pollution;
to use the skills and experience of Coastguard Officers in an accident prevention capacity by providing safety education for professional and recreational mariners, as well as students and children in colleges and schools
Area of Operations
The UK Search and Rescue Region (SRR) and Coastguard Rescue Centres
SAR Assets
The Air, Sea and Land-based Resources Responding to Maritime Emergencies
Working With Others
Providing Assistance in Maritime and non Maritime Emergencies
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