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1. NOAA Homepage NOAA  - This is the homepage for NOAA which contains inumerable sources.   For a complete listing of importan NOOA site see below.
   
2. Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center - This is an extraordinary site with invaluable information about Ocean conditions including currents and eddies of the gulf Stream (Oceanographic Features Analysis- Gulf Stream).
   
3. United States Coast Guard Home Page - Another excellent site crammed with useful information including a section devoted exclusively to Boating Safety  The US Coast Guard -- Office of Boating Safety Home Page   .  See below for more Coast Guard related listings.
   
4. Coast Guard Auxilliary Division 5   - Home of the Coast Guard Auxilliary where you can take more boating classes, learn to do vessel checks and other boating skills.   Division 5 Floatilla 10 is the home of the Manhattan Auxilliary and has membership information.
   
5. Interactive Marine Weather | Northeast  - Ocean buoy reports for the Northeast Atlantic.  Critical fro current sea state information for coastal cruisers.
   
6. Weather Links   - a good source of various weather related links.
   
7. Unisys Weather  - another good alternate weather source with excellent satel;ite maps..
   
8. HM Nautical Almanac Office - British royal Observatory Nautical almanac Office - great site for celestial navigators.
   
9. Analemma  - another good site for celestial navigators.  Contains the analemma and an explanation.
   
10. NIST Web Clock  - for Navigators.  Contains downloadable software to set your computer's clock to atomic clock time for precision navigation.
    
11. US SAILING National governing body for sailboat racing.
    
    Other NOAA and Coast Guard related links:
12. NOAA Homepage http://www.noaa.gov
13. NWS Homepage http://www.nws.noaa.gov
14. NWS Marine Forecasts http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm
15. NWS Marine Text Products http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/forecast.htm
16. NWS Marine Charts (Radiofax) http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/marine.shtml
17. NWS Environmental Modeling Center http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/
18. NWS Ocean Prediction Center (formally the Marine Prediction Center) http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/
19. NWS Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
20. NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/hnl/cphc/pages/cphc.shtml
21. Joint Typhoon Warning Center https://metoc.npmoc.navy.mil//jtwc.html
22. NWS Marine Forecast Offices http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/marine_map.htm
23. NWS Ocean Modeling Branch http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov
24. NWS WC/ATWC Tsunami Center http://wcatwc.gov/main.htm
25. NWS WC/ATWC Tsunami Center (mirror) http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
26. NWS PTWC Tsunami Center http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/index.htm
27. The International Tsunami Information Center http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/
28. NOAA PMEL-Tsunami Mitigation http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/
29. USGS National Earthquake Information Center http://neic.usgs.gov/
30. NWS EMWIN http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/index.htm
31. NWS VOS Program http://www.vos.noaa.gov
32. NWS Publications http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures.shtml
33. NOAA Data Buoy Center http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
34. NOAA Weather Radio http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/
35. NOAA Tides & Currents http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/
36. NOAA Ports http://www.opsd.nos.noaa.gov/d_ports.html
37. NOAA SEAS Program http://seas.amverseas.noaa.gov/seas/
38. NOAA NESDIS http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/
39. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
40. NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) http://www.nodc.noaa.gov
41. NOAA Coastwatch http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/COASTWATCH/
42. NOAA GOES http://www.goes.noaa.gov
43. NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) http://wwww.aoml.noaa.gov/
44. NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) http://pmel.noaa.gov
45. NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration http://response.restoration.noaa.gov
46. NGA Homepage http://www.nga.mil
47. NGA Marine Navigation Dept. http://pollux.nss.nga.mil/
48. International Ice Patrol http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/home.html
49. National Ice Center http://www.natice.noaa.gov
50. Naval Oceanographic Office http://www.navo.navy.mil
51. Navy Fleet Numerical http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil
52. U.S. Coast Guard Homepage http://www.uscg.mil
53. U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center http://www.navcen.uscg.gov
54. U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Telecommunications Information http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms
55. U.S. Coast Guard CAMSLANT Comms http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/camslant
56. U.S. Coast Guard CAMSPAC Comms http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/camspac/menu.html
57. U.S. Coast Guard AMVER Program http://www.amver.com/
58. IMO Homepage http://www.imo.org
59. WMO Homepage http://www.wmo.ch
60. The Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) http://www.rtcm.org/
61. Penn State University http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/offshore.cgi
62. Ohio State University http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu
    
    There are also many other Internet sites of interest to the mariner. Use one of the Internet search engines to search on topics such as "marine weather", "radiofax", "radiofacsimile", "weather buoys", "tides", etc.

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