Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Underwater diving

message: * Article Compressor diving is about a method of surface-supplied diving used in some tropical sea areas in Asia, using rudimentary kit. I called it "compressor diving" because that name for it was used by the BBC TV 1 program which described it; but other better-equipped sorts of surface-supplied diving also use air compressors. Is there a specific name in English or any Asian language for this sort of diving? See also discussion at http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/non-diving-related-stuff/366539-compressor-diving.html . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:51, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compressor diving :: rename? 

message: A recently discussion Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Women's Sport. Your opinions and your advice are welcome. --Geneviève  (talk) 23:03, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Your opinions and advice

message: The articles Circular search, Jackstay search should be merged and new sections created for other search patterns such as Spiral box search, Compass grid search etc. Redirects for existing article titles to the new page.
These search patterns are not sufficiently noteworthy to justify their own articles, which will always be small, as there is not that much to say about them. However there are several and together they would fornm a logically coherent whole. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:40, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd certainly agree with that, Peter, and I recommend just going ahead and doing it if you get no objections within the next few days. Please take care, though, to observe WP:NOTHOWTO and I'd recommend using this opportunity to scrap all the unsourced junk (like the line signals) that clogs up articles like these. --RexxS (talk) 19:03, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done the merge, and added a few other searches, but I don't know how to describe them in a way that does not give a moderate amount of information on how they are done, as to quite a large extent the variations are distinguished by how they are done. Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:17, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hehe, I'm sorry if I gave you a false spin, Peter, WP:NOTHOWTO is really just an injunction not to write step-by-bullet-pointed-step instruction guides instead of proper prose. You're quite right that you have to give some description of the search mechanics for each case. You've done a good job of writing encyclopedic prose in Underwater searches and I don't think anybody is going to confuse the current article with an instruction manual :D --RexxS (talk) 23:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, no problem. I tend to write instructional material quite a lot. It's part of what I do, so may have a tendency to wander off in that direction as a matter of habit. I will try to get around to drawing a few illustrations when I feel the inclination, unless someone else has access to suitable non-copyright work. Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:54, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge all underwater search articles to [[Underwater searches]] 

message: No longer a stub. My estimate is a C, but needs review and comment. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality of [[Underwater searches]] 

message: I suggest renaming Diving signals to Diver communications as the latter has a wider scope and includes voice comms. Original article name to redirect. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:04, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections in two weeks, I will go ahead and make the changes. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename  Diving signals to Diver communications 

message: An article that you have been involved in editing, Decompression chamber, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going , and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:39, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections in 3 weeks, I will go ahead and merge Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:32, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge discussion for [[Decompression chamber]]

message: I suggest that it is time to archive at least part of this talk page. Perhaps all the items before 2011? Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 16:26, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Over a month and no comments, I will go ahead. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:54, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to archive this talk page? 

message: Discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Scuba diving#Proposal to add importance scale and attention category to the template Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:26, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to add importance scale and attention category to the WPSCUBA template

message: Per WP:ACLASS I hereby nominate Decompression (diving) for review as an A-class article.
For WikiProjects without a formal A-Class review process, the proposal to promote to A-Class should be made on the article's talk page and supported there by two uninvolved editors, with no significant opposes. The review should also be noted on the discussion page.
Please review and comment on the Talk page.  Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of  Decomression (diving) for A-class 

message: I propose to merge Glossary of SCUBA diving into Glossary of underwater diving terminology (and redirect) as it is a subset of the appropriate contents for this article. Merging would reduce duplication, reduce maintenance and improve usefulness. Glossary of SCUBA diving is also non-compliant with WP:MOSGLOSS and WP:SCUBA naming conventions (should be Glossary of scuba diving terms, which should also be a redirect). Discussion on Talk:Glossary of underwater diving terminology. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:22, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Hyperbaric chamber. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyperbaric chamber 

message: I'm about to remove a substantial amount of unsourced puffery from Bret Gilliam, and I expect to be reverted by an IP who is related to the subject. I have no intention of edit-warring, so my only recourse is to appeal to members of this project who may be willing to offer a third opinion at Talk:Bret Gilliam #Book citations and other problems. Any extra eyes would be appreciated. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 17:46, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bret Gilliam 

message: Hi all,
I would like to start expanding the Diving medicine article, but would like your opinions on what it should contain. See the talk page. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diving medicine article - request for your comments  

message: Hi all, I would like opinions on the scope of this article. Please comment on the talk page. Thanks, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:26, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of diver training organizations 

message: Hello diving enthusiasts!  The above article in the Afc may be of interest to you.  —Anne Delong (talk) 23:17, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that kind of diving. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:14, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops!  I guess I should have read further down the page...  —Anne Delong (talk) 14:35, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dacorum Diving Club]] 

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message: Opinions requested on the suggested split of Decompression practice at the GA discussion page
Thanks,• • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:39, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested split of Decompression practice 

message: Improvements, comments and suggestions welcome • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:42, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article [[Scuba diving fatalities]] 

message: At this stage we have no indication of the importance of our articles to the project.
I suggest that we are at a stage where it may be worth considering which articles are most worth working on to provide a useful set of references for the ordinary reader and the ordinary diver.
If there are no objections I will add an importance parameter to the project template and create the requisite categories. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:40, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been done, I am busy allocating importance to all articles without allocation, and may modify some which are already set. All project members please feel free to set ratings and to amend ratings if you feel they should be different. If you change by more than one level in either direction, we have a significant difference in opinion, so in that case please motivate the change so we can work towards a consensus. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:03, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance of diving articles. 

message: A rename to either Diving reflex or Diving response has been proposed. Discuss. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 12:30, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:20, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move of [[Mammalian diving reflex]] 

message: Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!
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thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10 

message: I have requested an extension to  for conversions to and from msw and fsw. I also found what I considered inaccuracies in the Metres sea water article, which was based on two not particularly authoritative websites, and edited it to reflect the presumed official opinions of the US Navy, and IMCA. However even those generally reliable sources can be wrong, and I don't have a primary source to go to for the original definition.
I understand the conventional usage of metres sea water (msw) and feet sea water (fsw) to be primarily in the underwater diving and hyperbaric medicine context, and that they refer either to an ambient pressure of a diver or occupant of a hyperbaric chamber or habitat, or to the pressure difference between parts of a hyperbaric chamber or habitat. In all these cases msw and fsw are gauge pressure. (either relative to the atmospheric pressure, or relative to another part of the habitat/chamber) When msw or fsw is converted to other units of pressure, it is almost always expressed as an absolute pressure in bar, atm or other general purpose units of pressure for depth of the diver or internal pressure of a chamber/habitat, and when it is a pressure difference, it is seldom converted, but if converted would necessarily be as a pressure difference, which is a type of gauge pressure. 
If there are other contexts in which msw and fsw are used, I am not aware of them. Other use may be important for a conversion template. If anyone is aware of such use, please mention it.
I consider a conversion template to be useful for this project mainly for references to fsw, where the conversion is less trivial than msw(gauge) to bar(absolute).
I suggest the following conversions as useful extensions to :
*  → 1 meter sea water (3.26336 feet sea water)
*  → 1 foot sea water (0.30643 feet sea water)
*  → 1 metre sea water (0.1000 bar)
*  → 1 metre sea water (1.1000 bar)
*  → 1 metre sea water (10.0000 kPa)
*  → 1 metre sea water (110.0000 kPa)
*  → 1 foot sea water (0.030242 atm)
*  → 1 foot sea water (1.030242 ata) (1 fsw gauge pressure = 1 atm + 1fsw)
*  → 1 foot sea water (0.4444 kPa)
*  → 1 foot sea water (15.1444 psi) (from 14.7+0.4444)
*  → 1 atmosphere (gauge) (33.066 fsw)
*  → 1 atmosphere (absolute) (0.000 fsw)
*  → 1 bar (gauge) (10 msw)
*  → 1 bar (absolute) (0 msw)
And possibly others, though I think this would be most.
The usual collection of additional parameters for rounding, abbreviation etc would probably be acceptable in their usual form. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:43, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metres sea water and feet sea water - RfC 

message: User:Pbsouthwood asked on my talk page about sources on occupational diving safety.  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has a number of sources:
* There's an pamphlet on diving hazards for firefighters.  There are also a number of Fire Fighter Fatality Reports that involve diving; these discuss general safety recommendations in the context of specific incidents.
* For commercial fishing, there are four region-based publications that include some statistical information about diving injuries: Alaska, East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, West Coast.
* CDC, of which NIOSH is a part, has a number of publications, including a chapter in the Yellow Book and a number of pieces in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
* More generally, there's a search tool for NIOSH guidance publications, and the NIOSHTIC search engine that includes all publications by NIOSH including journal articles.  NIOSH's scope is very broad, performing research on all aspects of occupational safety and health.
I will ask around to see if I can come up with more sources; if anyone has more specific requests let me know!  John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 22:05, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks , I will work my way through these as time allows, and use them as appropriate. I will also get back to you if I need something specific which I can't find on the net. If you see a place where a specific source may be useful in any WPSCUBA article, and don't have the time or inclination to edit it yourself, just leave a link on the article talk page and I will get round to it some time if someone else doesn't do it first. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:11, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Occupational diving safety sources 

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thread_title: RFC on sports notability

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thread_title:  [[:Danish Frogmen Corps]] listed at Requested moves

message: International Diving Federation has just been relisted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Diving Federation, owing to lack of comments. If anyone has any opinion either way, your contribution would be appreciated there. --RexxS (talk) 12:48, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Diving Federation at AfD 

message: Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | talk page 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at NSPORTS 

message: Newsletter • February 2018
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
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thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11 

message: The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template .
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=== Background ===
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thread_title:  WikiProject collaboration notice from the [[WP:WPPORT|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
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thread_title:  Background 

message: The scope of the project has been the full range of underwater diving for a long time, and the project related portal, and lead article are already titled Underwater diving. This would largely be formalising the status quo of several years. The main reason for this is to encourage participation by a wider range of editors, including those with interests in freediving, underwater sports, and surface supplied diving, who may be discouraged by the project name. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:25, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to rename the project to WikiProject Underwater diving 

message: Newsletter • August 2018
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
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thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12 

message: Newsletter • December 2018
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
* Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
* I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
** Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
** If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself. 
* Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13 

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thread_title:  A new newsletter directory is out! 

message: Newsletter • June 2019
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
* A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
* We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
* Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
* WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,
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thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14 

message: Proposal to delete all portals
The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 07:52, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:Underwater diving]] 

message: I want to try to rationalise the main and sub-navboxes to reduce redundancy and make finding an article a bit easier.
If anyone has ideas of how to do this efficiently, please let me know. Otherwise I plan to progress by trying things out and see what works.
Please point out any obvious errors or inconsistencies. Cheers,· · · Peter Southwood (talk): 15:11, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganisation of underwater diving navboxes 

message: Newsletter • September 2019
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.
Regards,
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thread_title:  WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15 

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message: An IP hopping editor has been regularly adding false references to the site "watersportsmag.com" in multiple different articles. I've cleaned them all up and I've now added the site to the spam blacklist. --RexxS (talk) 00:02, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blacklisting watersportsmag.com 

message: Hi anyone who is watching this project talk page.
I am trying to get some idea of the number of people registered as project members who keep a watch here for any questions or comments that may be added, and might respond if they have something useful to say.
*· · · Peter Southwood (talk): 09:24, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I am watching this page.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 09:27, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

text: +1 Atsme Talk 📧 10:41, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

text: Me too. --RexxS (talk) 16:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is watching here? 

message: See discussion at Talk:Diving regulator#Proposed split. Mainly a size issue. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 11:15, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed split of [[Diving regulator]] 

message: Updating the project list so if you are an active participant who is watching this page, please add your name below:
#Atsme Talk 📧 14:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating active project participants 

message: I think it's time to rename :Category:WikiProject SCUBA and its subcategories, as well as . Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 01:16, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Rename it to what, may I ask? Atsme 💬 📧 01:54, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New name 

message: Introducing the Underwater diving Barnstar. Jerm (talk) 06:15, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job, !!  I love it! Atsme 💬 📧 17:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barnstar 

message: Hello, I just became aware of this WikiProject. I created  since there didn't seem to be anything comparable to  for diving recreationalists. Please feel free to use, improve, amend, burn at the stake, etc. Thanks, Featous (talk) 20:48, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: As someone who is generally in favour of infoboxes when they are useful, I wonder how useful this will be for dive sites on Wikipedia, as I would guess most of our dive site articles are primarily articles on ships, which are incidentally also dive sites in their current state as shipwrecks. Much of the data for the infoboxes may not be available from reliable sources. We shall see. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 08:39, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Infobox dive site]] 

message: Both Rebreather and Rebreather diving are very long articles. Quite a lot of the content in both articles is on the topic of diving rebreathers. I propose splitting out the content on diving rebreathers from Rebreather to Diving rebreather, and possibly splitting and merging some content from Rebreather diving to Diving rebreather. 
Discuss at Talk:Rebreather#Split and merge Diving rebreather
*, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 09:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split and merge Diving rebreather 

message: FYI I added the page Kilsby sinkhole after seeing it on Youtube. I really know jack sh*t about diving, so letting you folks here know. I guess there are some caves, but I do not have the chops to describe them. This report seems to be the best source on what is there. --- Possibly ☎ 06:33, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kilsby sinkhole 

message: The Underwater Habitats page is at least 3 years out of date and needs help, MarineLab is retiredhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Underwater_habitat and there is other work on moving the Scott to retired and updating Jules to remove refs to MarineLab.
Chadnibal (talk) 21:35, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underwater habitats retired 

message: There's a discussion about listing inductees as redlinks based on the org itself. Your input is welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:07, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Women Divers Hall of Fame]] 

message: The article is large. I have proposed splitting out the content on Cave diving regions. Discussion at Talk:Cave diving#Due for a split some time. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 05:20, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 07:45, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split proposed for Cave diving 

message: Lipid has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:27, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article reassessment for [[Lipid]] 

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thread_title:  Project-independent quality assessments 

message: There are some references though I doubt at least two of them (the Great Blue Hole in Belize and the Richelieu Rock in Thailand). I’m well aware of WP:NOR but given my experience of 40+ years of diving in 21 countries (including most of the ones in the lists) I can’t for the life of me find anything special about them.
* Marine life in the Great Blue Hole is naturally very limited due to restricted water exchange. To expect any species of shark is futile because they have nothing to feed on. The standard procedure of tour operators is a no-decompression bounce dive according to the Navy tables (for a while we are living in the 20th century…). IMHO, a bottom time of a couple of minutes ‘just to be there’ and get a T-shirt ‘I dove the Blue Hole’ is not worth the efforts.
* At the Richelieu Rock seeings of large pelagics like whale sharks and manta rays are extremely rare, even in the best part of the dry season (February to April). Critters are not more abundant than at other dive sites in the Surin and Similan Islands.
Keeping the references and their claims in articles will be misleading. I think that  the usual template  does the common reader no good. How to deal with that? I expect that removing both the claims and references may lead to an edit war when tour operators see their interests infringed. Alfie↑↓© 14:03, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the way to deal with this is to provide attribution for the claim by specifying by whom, in what source, and when, the claims were made. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 18:08, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top 10 best dive spots in the world? 

message: The question came up about renaming the article, please join if you have an opinion on that, or anything else. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:24, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Shark_cage_diving#Shark_cage_diving%23Self-propelled_version%2C_again]]