| This
page was done by Chuck
Tribolet, but all the data and
pictures come from the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
and
the U.S. Navy and is excerpted from http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/,
http://cdip.ucsd.edu/,
and https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/ww3_cgi/..
If you would like to learn more about how to read this information, see
http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/Inet1XMP.html.
I also have a North
Coast Sea
Conditions at
a Glance page, and Michael Owens
maintains a Central
Coast Sea Conditions at a Glance
page.
You can click on
any of the thumbnails to go directly to the full-size
version of that image.
This information
should be used to decide whether to go to the ocean.
Conditions sometimes change unexpectedly, so you should study the
conditions
in person and check the latest weather reports before deciding whether
to get into the water.
Security Pop-Ups
What's happened is that the Navy has
switched from normal http to secure http ("https"), presumably for some
degree of assurance that Al Qaeda, or some bored 14-year-old hacker,
isn't spoofing the site. The problem is that the U.S.
Government
is issuing its own https certificates, and operating systems and browsers don't recognize
the U.S. Government as a legitimate certificate-issuing authority. Maybe that's good. ;-) But it's a pain.
Mozilla Firefox users have it easy. You
will
get a pop-up titled: "Website Certified by an Unknown
Authority". Just select an option at the bottom,
and click
OK.
If you are an Internet Explorer user, here's what you have to do.
Note that I'm not sure the URL is the most correct ("airborne.nrl"
doesn't sound like DOD's PKI certificate center).
I've got a Safari user pursuing the solution in that environment.
More Information
For information about Internet resources for the Bay Area diver, see http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/.
For information about using GPS for diving in Monterey, see http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/gps.html.
For information about the Northern California Underwater Photographic
Society
(NCUPS), see http://www.ncups.org. |
