Testing out a new camera. Seems to work much better than the old one:
Added a new Message Board where you can post your own notes - dive reports, upcoming trips, news, etc. This is a very full-featured board, customized to fit into the overall site layout. This board is strictly for local diving. Membership is by invitation only. If you would like an account, then contact me and introduce yourself.
Apple Safari browser (beta for Windows) looks ok. Fonts are fuzzy, and there are some JavaScript issues, but it is useable, and will hopefully improve with the final release. I don't see what Jobs was bragging about.
Here's some stuff from way back when ...
2007 Official Fishing Regulations: Recreational | Commercial (pdf)
Playing with Linux, and took a look at the site in Konqueror. Made some subtle changes to the layout to compensate for odd font rendering in X, and everything looks good, so I added it to the allowed browser list. If someone can send me screen shots of Safari, maybe I'll do the same for that browser as well.
Added list of referrer links to site statistics. Relocated all binary files for easier site management. Recoded page counters. Cleaned-up and standardized sidebar links.
Merged with
NJScuba.com
NJScuba.net is now 464 MB and still growing
New Reefs in 2006
Underwater pictures of the John Marvin
Underwater pictures of the Mandy Ray
Identified the
Ida K
Found this old photo of the A.H. Dumont
Almost all files also validate against W3C HTML 4.01 standard, and so should work on platforms other than Windows. Never owned a Mac and uninstalled Linux, so I can't test those. You 3% are on your own.
Found this old photo of the Maurice Tracy, moments after launching
Heavy Metal - Townsends Inlet Reef
Take a submarine trip around the Shark River Reef
Many thanks to Pat Colligan for this excellent shot of the Cranford ferry as "the Ferry" restaurant in Brielle:
"The Ferry" restaurant, seen from the foot of the Route 35 bridge, probably in the late sixties. She appears to be laid-up at the far side of the Seeker's old dock, behind the present-day Shipwreck Grill, where the Spring Tide ties up today. You might have to stare at this picture for a while, as the ferry is so much bigger than anything else in it that she merges into the background and appears to be a building on shore. Photo courtesy of Pat Colligan.
A photo of the
Mohawk that has probably never before been seen in public
Here's a nice new coffee-table book:
New: click on
Shuffle on any page and it will randomly load one of over 300 pages. Inspired by my iPod, this is a fun way to jump around the website, although it does defeat all my careful planning and order.
New Artificial Reefs Book
Added 20 mini-articles from Dan Berg's CD-ROM in
Dive Sites.
Lots of new pictures and info on artificial reefs, courtesy of the Department of Fish and Game. Also, check out the new book
of Artificial Reef wrecks.
No new content really, just formatting and structural changes:
It's too d***ed cold to go diving ! Hopefully, the Flea Market and BTS will tide things over until Spring.
- Artifacts & Shipwrecks
- Classified Ads
- Dive Sites
- Gear & Training
- Marine Biology
- News & Announcements
- Trip Reports
This has to be the worst end-of-diving-season in years. Everything blown out since September !
Big Changes: Converted website to frameless layout ( 6/07/02. ) Later reconstructed frames ( 6/16/02, ) which are now completely optional for those folks who have the extra screen space and liked the old layout. Finally, converted pages to CSS ( 6/27/02, ) and changed font to Arial for a more modern look.
Added a few more aerial photos of Shark River and Manasquan Inlet, and some new artificial reefs. Revamped and expanded Photography page to include digital photography.
The dry season ... swept out broken links again. Fixed a glitch in the tide calendar. Added a few new artificial reefs and some artifacts. Looks like the interactive areas were a waste of time. Maybe a bikini-of-the-week page would go over better.
Added some nice underwater pictures from Dutch Springs. Added New Jersey's biggest shipwreck artifact. Updated Directories section. Some minor modifications to work better with handheld computers.
| Sept. 3, 2001 | went off-line at umg.umdnj.edu/scuba. main counter: 42364 |
| Sept 21, 2001 | back up at new address - www.njscuba.net reset all counters to 0 |
| Oct 30, 2001 | Finally re-listed at Google. |
Added much more detailed pages on Spearfishing and Lobstering in Dive Gear & Training. Added section on aquaria in Biology. Details on Allenhurst Jetty and Shark River in Dive Sites.
Added interesting data on recompression procedures in Dive Gear ( for want of a better place for it ). Added downloadable US Navy Dive Manual to References. Oregon. ( Aug 1 - 40,000 hits )
Split Long Island chart and extended shipwreck coverage out to Block Island, with new entries on U-853 & USS Bass. Added some more artificial reefs, and a page on learning to dive in Dive Gear. U.S. Navy report on the sinking of the Turner is interesting.
Spruced up Marine Biology section with lots of new color pictures and new entries. Added Google search boxes, and a few new Artifact pages.
Added some aerial photographs of shore dive sites. Swept out a lot of broken links.
Altered page layout slightly to fit 8.5"x11" portrait paper, and added Print button to page bottoms, to allow printing of individual frames. Only works in IE, though.
Some new artificial reefs; adding some aquarium notes and pictures in the Marine Biology section. Updated Shark River Bay.
Added Zebra Mussels to Marine Biology section, since they were recently discovered at Dutch Springs! Figured out how to make tighter cross-links between framesets.
Added the latest artificial reef - the Captain Bart - along with a slideshow of the sinking. Altered front page to load faster. Added some great underwater images, courtesy of Herb Segars.
Added some neat slide shows, and a popup Announcements page. Unfortunately, because of yet another bug in Netscape, slideshows only run in IE. Added perpetual calendar with tide links to Weather section. Added page protection, since far too many people are stealing my graphics without so much as a "by your leave".
Added a bunch of new shipwrecks, courtesy of Captains Dan Berg and Steve Nagiewicz. Added nifty perpetual calendar to dive boats weekday schedule. Added eastern PA dive shops & clubs. Added Gary Gentile's new book of NJ wrecks.
| Added some newsgroup links: For these to work, you must have your newsreader properly set up. Added some interesting pictures to the Arundo. Some re-styling for the new year. | rec.scuba rec.scuba.equipment rec.scuba.locations |
I must be doing something right, to get top billing from Yahoo! Added Nitrox page to Dive Gear, and some nice pictures to the Stolt Dagali.
Sea Girt Wreck and some better quality artificial reef images. A number of additions to marine Biology. Started Shipwrecks & Artifacts section - hoping to get some help here!
Added Horseshoe Cove ( Sandy Hook ) to dive sites. Added "rollover" effect to links. Added several NY reefs, and chart for Cape May reef. Trimmed down this page.
Added nifty little JavaScript Navigation Menu. Allows you to jump directly from any section of the website to any other without going through the home page.
Finished upgrading Dive Sites graphics to larger format, and added three clam boats lost in 1999. Reformatted Directories pages to match rest of website. Dusted off References section, and added a few new items to Dive Gear & Training.
New Directories section. Re-formatted pages for 1024 x 768 screen resolution only. Converted wreck charts to nautical miles. Added copyright notice. Added a few pictures to the Mohawk. Expanded & refocused the Dive Gear & Training section.
Added new pictures and info to Riggy Barge and Bald Eagle. Added some pictures to the Delaware Water Gap Train Wreck. Added Contributors page. New background graphic. Interesting new lobster links. Now over 10 MB in size, pretty big for a website.
Updated Pinta, Round Valley, 120, Billy D, Coleman; added several more in South Jersey. Expanded Weather section with new chart. Added some lesser-known South Jersey Wrecks. Added place names to charts.
Finished changing page formats for better use of screen area, more consistent navigation, and neater printing, and added nifty graphic to opening page. Added some historical details for Mako Mania. Updated Macedonia and added Rudder Wreck. Expanded Dive Gear & Training area.
Added Mako Mania - the latest NJ artificial reef ( Shark River Reef ). Naturally had to add Mako Shark to Marine Biology. Also added Camden Aquarium and several less-well-known wrecks.
Redesigned hit counter scheme, and reset all hit counters to zero. Updated entries on Dykes and Emerald wrecks (New Jersey), material courtesy of Capt Steve Nagiewicz. Added spreadsheet of wreck coordinates to References section. Added weekday boat schedule.
Added Arnoff wreck (Long Island), material courtesy of Capt. Dan Berg. Added some new shipwrecks and some new References. Added 10 new ships sunk as NJ artificial reefs in 1997 to Dive Sites. Many interesting new links in Marine Biology section.
Cleaned up the site charts for better legibility and faster loading. Added complete history and specifications for the Algol. Added Regulations page.
Added dive clubs page. Added Long Island shore dives page, along with a number of related sites and links. Added a lot of manufacturer links and logos.
Added chart for Atlantic City reef, and several new wrecks. Added some hard-to-find pictures of reef wrecks. Overhauled the dive sites pages and put the graphics in-line. Added a new page for the Artificial Reef Program. Added a new chart for Cape May, and a few more wrecks.
Added a few new weather and miscellaneous links and some new dive sites. Some layout changes to display better at 640 x 480 resolution.
Added 17 more shipwrecks. Updated entries on Dykes, Coney Island, Lana Carol. Added section on freshwater biology. Started tracking changes. New cleaner look, more Netscape fixes.
Got the idea that a New Jersey scuba diving website might be a good thing.
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