Shipwreck Information Sistem
Sistema de Informações de Naufrágios (portuguese)

 
I 1995 for the first time ever a database with information on the shipwrecks of Brazil is avilable to all divers who wish to have access to it. Other researchers have collected data on Brazilian shipwrecks but did not make their information available to the public, and so their results were lost when they dropped off the work.
Now a group of wreck divers, intent on putting an end to this, created an open system, where anyone can contribute information, and help recover an important part of Brazilian naval history. In its first version, SINAU allows the extraction of information on new and unexplored dive points, the addition of new wrecks or new info on already existing ones, as well as complex data searches.
SINAU is an acronym for "Shipwreck Information System" in Portuguese. A pun is made with the word "Sinal", which means "Signal".
SINAU is not a product, but a community project. Its goal is to revert the current situation, in which divers are jealous of the information they've obtained about shipwrecks they consider their own. The project's core group has decided to make public all the data they had on hundreds of Brazilian shipwrecks, in the hope that other divers will feel encouraged to do the same.

The shipwrecks of Brazil
in your finguertips
 
One of the nice points of SINAU is allowing the users the obtain periodic updates. From time to time the core group will ask the participants to send back their copies of the database, with the new information they've added to it. Once the correctness of the data has been ascertained, it'll be pooled into a central database, which will once again be sent to all participants at no extra cost. In other words, the idea is to add to the information available by improving the communication among those interested in wreck diving.
 
 




SINAU is not a finished product, but a tool, built to make the data collection work easier, and to yield constant results to its users. At the time of writing, a version update process is going on, as described above. Version 1.0 of SINAU holds info on 768 shipwrecks of Brazil.
We hope you'll be able to help us make our effort more widely known, in expectation that more people, all over the world, will share information on Brazilian wrecks.

 
 
Research all the registered parameters, allowing to the crossing of database and the identification of wrecks.
 
It's approximately 2.450 shipwrecks in database
waiting for divers whom they desire to discovery its secrets
 
The SINAU was created by Carlos Arruda Accioly e Maurício Carvalho.

SINAU tean
Maurício Carvalho is a Shipwreck specialista whith more tham 30 year in research. divin Instructor by PADI, PDIC and IANTD.   Carlos Arruda is Analista de Sistemas, shipwreck diving since 1994, Dive Mentor PDIC, trimix diver IANTD.
 

If you have interest to receive informations on the new versions from program or it if
do you know how to participate in Shipwreck Information Sistem (SINAU),
it fills the form below:

  
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If you have information of shipwrecks in Brazil with name, position and depth informs us. If the data will be
incorporated the SINAU its name will consist as reference.
 
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