Sorry Shordiver, apparently the website is being rebuilt. It was an amazing source of GPS #s up until last year they had thousands of location #s. Anyways I sent an email to the administrator last night and he responded.. I posted it here so you can see what happened.
Hi Simcoediver
I'm glad that you noticed the changes I wasn't sure if anyone had.
You can actually find out why these changes are happening here:
GeoDiving.com • View topic - GeoDiving Welcome
Roughly in October of last year, we had to bring the entire site down due to a constant bombardment of hackers from Russia and other foreign areas.
As for the old system, unfortunately the security problems in the old architecture required us to rewrite most of the system from scratch which is why you can't find many of the things you're looking for. We've been mostly working behind the scenes in keeping our search rankings up and converting databases.
I can assure you that we are working diligently on getting the system back up to the way it was before except with many new features and better technologies.
All of our old databases are intact and somewhat available (mostly to keep the search engines happy with content) If you'd like to cheat and see some of the old pages, you can start here:
GeoDiving.com Locations
Just replace the Latitude and Longitude as listed above with the area that you're looking for (perhaps your home coordinates). In the next few days this process will be much simpler.
You can also monitor progress on Twitter if you'd like.
Twitter / GeoDiving and we're starting to consider creating a facebook group. But for now most of the efforts are going into getting the system back online to a state that I feel happy advertising it again.
I would ask if you could do me a favour. If you could assist in promoting the system once we get it up and running a bit better it would be much appreciated. Anything you could do in this regard would help. If you are interested in helping, I can show you a few things we're working on to get your opinion on the system. I know you've been around for a long time on the old system.
Hope that answers your question..
Jeremy
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:13 PM,
Hi Icefrog,
Its been a year or so since the last time I logged on to Geodiving. I actually could not log on as my original username and password are gone so I have reregistered as Simcoediver again.
Im not sure I like these changes, Im noticing that many dive sites are gone now, you are going to put back all the original ones from before? And how do I access the locations?? when I click on the google map a window opens with the name of the dive site but no GPS #s.
I liked the way it was set up before and used it often , are you still working on it?
Thanks for all your time and work you put into this incredible website, let me know whats happening.
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