| 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/index.html.
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 Monterey
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.
CAVEAT
EMPTOR: I don't dive
the North Coast at
all, so I have absolutely no way way of validating this. So,
PLEASE,
use an extra dose of caution in using this data, AND let me know if
I've
missed the mark.
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 the browsers don't recognize
the U.S. Government as a legitimate certificate-issuing authority.
If you are an Internet Explorer user, and want to make the
annoying
security
pop-ups go away, see http://www.swell-forecast.com/ssl_engl.htm
Mozilla 1.5 (and probably earlier) users have it
easier. You
will
get a pop-up titled: "Website Certified by an Unknown
Authority". Just select an option at the bottom,
and click
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