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New features on Diveboard: Wallet, New dive computers supported

by Pascal on January 15, 2013

With the first update of the year, we bring a feature that has been requested a lot on our feedback forum : the Wallet ! It allows you to store online a scan of your diving certifications, medical certificates, insurance card, etc...

The uploaded documents remain exclusively private, and you will always be able to get a copy of your dive certifications, whenever you forget your cards on your kitchen table before leaving for Thailand, or when your real wallet is now decorating the home of an octopus at 30m below see level !

This update also enhances the capabilities of our plugin to upload dive from computers : ...

Vancouver wreck diving

by Russell Clark on January 11, 2013

If you are heading to Vancouver anytime soon and fancy some cold water diving, the historic town of Britannia has some fantastic shallow wreck diving...

http://www.secsociety.com/britannia.html

Diving Log (loves) Diveboard (and vice-versa)

by Ksso on January 07, 2013

Since the release of our API, we've been working at working with partners at using Diveboard as a platform.

Today I'm pleased to announce one of the first integration going live with Sven Knoch's Diving Log - one of the better if not the best logbook for Windows.

Sven added two integration points with diveboard leveraging on our APIs

Logbook synchronization ( well actually upload and download )

Access to the Diveboard spot database to properly tag your logged dives

If you're using Diving Log you'll love the integration, if you're a windows Diveboard user and wanted to add an offline access to your Diveboard logbook from your PC, Diving Log is what you're looking for ! ...

Giant 8m/26ft long squid filmed by 800m/2600ft depth

by Ksso on January 07, 2013

Japanese TV channels have just announced today that Professor Tsunemi Kubodera and team have been able to spot a giant squid of about 8m/26ft long by 800m/2600ft depth. This may sound gigantic, but actually the "Architeuthis" is thought to be able to grow up to 13m/42ft long !

Professor Kubodera had spent over 400hrs underwater in his submersible before the sighting, and only focusing on areas he knew for sure the giant squids were roaming - that's how hard it is to see them !

They spotted the beast about 15km east of Chichi island, in northern Pacific by 630m depth and followed it by 900m as he was following a prey. ...

Happy new year from the Diveboard team !

by Ksso on December 31, 2012

As 2012 comes to an end, it's time to think back on all the amazing memories we were gifted with... and we do hope that among those memories your dives are taking a good part!

Hope you all get to celebrate the new year in a bubbly atmosphere!

As a scuba diver I could not pass the opportunity to re-share those pictures of the oldest champagne in the world which had been found on the Baltic seabed near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland on board the Jőngkőping, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1916 . The champagne is said to be"Louis Roederer" and was found by 210 feet where it had been preserved at a constant temperature of 3º – 4ºC. The champagne of this era was sweet...

Mike Beni

by Abyss on December 19, 2012

Looking for Mike Beni, captain of a diving boat in Key Largo Fl. This is Kris, just wondering if you have seen this site?

Fort Lauderdale Underwater Wreck Dive Watch Hunt: Win a new Aquadive Dve Watch!

by Slundin on December 05, 2012

The Great Aquadive Underwater Watch

Hunt: Wreck Dive Fort Lauderdale

You might be the winner of a new

$1990 handmade Swiss Dive Watch - Join in the fun to find a new Aquadive

today…it’s easy!

Clues to finding a new Aquadive

are hidden on underwater on wrecks around Greater Fort Lauderdale – the contest

is open to all divers (18 and up) and runs from 11/24/2012 – 1/1/2013

1) Figure out the first wreck location

from this clue: Tug yourself over to this memorial wreck, Scuttiled in Lauderdale.

2) Call, bring, or email your guess

to Underseas Sports or South Florida Diving Headquarters – we’ll verify if

you’re on the right track!

3) Dive the first wreck – you’ll ...

New features on Diveboard: buddies, widgets, better bulk uploader, support for Suunto Moovescount

by Ksso on December 03, 2012

We pushed a little update on Diveboard last Friday. The main areas of change (outside of the usual pile of bugfixes and under-the-hood optimizations) include :

Bulk dive uploader & Sunnto Moovescount

With the mobile application letting you create dives on the go, we needed a way to enable to upload all your dive profiles and match them with existing dives. Hence a new version of the bulk uploader doing just that.

On top of that, we added support for dive exported from Suuno moovescount as xlsx files. Some users got stuck in that server with no standard way out so we had to make a dedicated connector to help them out. Unfortunately moovescount radomly breaks xlsx exported files, so you may...

Happy Thanksgiving - full with turkey ? try the Turkeyfish !

by Ksso on November 21, 2012

Following a random twitt from community member @michandwalker, @chezfroggy pointed out that there is such thing as the Turkeyfish !

And indeed, the Pterois sphex, a relative to the common Pterois Volitans (Lionfish) is also referred to as the (Hawaiian) Turkeyfish. Although he doesn't really look like a turkey he still gets to be fish of the day :).

Pterois sphex is found in seaward reefs and lagoons at a depth range of 3 – 122 m... and as per its common name mostly in Hawaii.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Species round-up: the dumbo octopus

by Ksso on November 16, 2012

Everybody (if you don't raise hands) loves octopi ! But that's a species you're not likely to encounter easily : the Dumbo octopus Grimpoteuthis bathynectes . That's an abyssal species, as in really deep ocean where there's no light, hence the pale skin. It's know as dumbo due to their ear-like fins on the top of their head-like bodies.

As usually with abyssal species, they can be found near underwater volcanoes sustaining a strange and active ecosystem. Very little is known about them, but the video below will definitely move you, and make you wish you'll encounter one.