Water sports and W Guide - Resources and Review

Information about surfing in the United Kingdom. Includes news, trade directory, contests, weather conditions and a list of surfing schools.
 
British Waterways is the public body responsible for maintaining and developing the waterways and their heritage. Includes information on stoppages, news, maps of the inland waterways system and a database of boat hire companies.
 
A magazine about international swimming. Includes news, events, results and world rankings.
 
Information on learning to dive, including details of training centres throughout the UK, details of new equipment, places to dive, locations of wrecks and conservation information. Also features articles and a forum about underwater photography.
 
Information on canal boating in the United Kingdom and Europe. Includes canal maps, hiring boats, hotel boats, events, a mailinglist, and information on specific canals and waterways.
 
Resource providing information about windsurfing events, instruction, schools, lessons, holidays, equipment sales, rental services, and board, sail, boom, mast, fin, wetsuit, and accessory manufacturers. Also offers details on kite, land, and ice and snow surfing, and gives daily windsurfing forecasts complete with live surf
cams. Conditions in specific regions throughout the world can be investigated via an alphabetical listing of place names.
 
Information about diving including news and events. Also features articles from Diver magazine covering topics such as El Nino and the damage it has created to coral reefs, wrecks, and underwater photography.
 
International and British rowing news and information on major international and domestic regattas. Includes news, results, records, a world championship index and events.
 
An insight to surfing, its Polynesian origins, its revival between 1903 and 1915, surf culture, the move from wooden to polyurethane foam boards, the growth in popularity of the short board, and the search for big surf after World War II. Also features information about prominent figures of the sport including Bud Browne, Buzzy Trent, Dale Velzy, Rabbit Kekai, Bob Simmons, Woody Brown, and Tarzan Smith.
 
The complete, official rules of sailing from the International Sailing Federation. Includes introduction, race signals, sportsmanship and the rules, protest form and definitions.
 
Group established to campaign for the cessation of all marine sewage and toxic waste discharges. Provides general information about the problem of sewage pollution and gives details of news and forthcoming events.
 
Resources on extreme sports such as snowboarding, mountain biking, motorbiking, skiing, surfing and bodyboarding. Includes information about each sport, its history, and reviews equipment used.
 
Provides seven day forecasts of surfing conditions throughout the UK and Ireland. Also includes news, chat and details of Surf System's world record attempt for the greatest number of surfers riding a single wave.
 
Offers surf forecasts, a noticeboard, classifieds, online shops, contests, links to surf shops, surfboard manufacturers, schools, clubs, magazines and videos.
 
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