| 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
and http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/UPSSwell.pdf.
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 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.
For other browsers, you need to install the certificates. Here's what you do on Windows
Using Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Netscape Communicator, go to the
following web page: http://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/rootca.html
There are four files listed along with instructions. Right click on each
of the four files and save them to your computer. Then using Windows
Explorer, find each file, right click them and select "Install
Certificate". Agree to installing the certificates. Repeat for the
remaining three files.
Once done, the certificates work for (at least) Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape
Communicator, Google Chrome, and Safari.
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