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One third of marine species remain to be discovered!

par Ksso le 21 novembre 2012

Biology is tough. When you start diving, you start by being amazed by the beautiful marine life around... and as your skills increase so is your understanding of what you actually see. And god is there a variety of species down there, once you're done with the understanding of the big categories and start digging at a species level, you realize how tough it is to properly identify a species - even with a proper picture at hand.

But NOAA has some news : apparently although there are still more species to be discovered! Diveboard is in some sense involved in that quest to understanding the marine life, whenever divers mark down species in their logbook, occurrence data gets shared with...

Input on a month-long dive trip in Sept.

par Sean le 19 novembre 2012

Leaving out of Los Angeles some time in September:

Week 1: YapWeek 2: Palau

Week 3: Australia (GBR / Great Barreer Reef)

Week 4: Christmas Island (CI)

Week 1+2 will be with a dive club (SCDCIE.ORG...unless I find a cheaper rate) but I'd like to extend my trip in the region to include a stop in Australia and hopefully hit Christmas Island (or some other islands in this area...suggestions?) before making my way back home most likely via Hawaii.

I was curious if anyone had any suggestions as to a liveaboard to use in Australia as I've been told by some fellow divers that this is the best route to go versus doing a trip out to the reef every day. ...

Species round-up: the dumbo octopus

par Ksso le 16 novembre 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.

Ice diving is actually comfortable - ask Stig !

par Ksso le 13 novembre 2012

Ice diving is feared by many divers - but let's face it : with a proper dry suit, a mouthpiece and a little training it's really no big deal. The tough side is when u need to cut the ice with a manual soar and prep the site for the dive (did that under heavy storm - beautiful memories - still remember how the arms and feet hurt after spending 2hrs getting the site prepped).

Anyways, you know what's more extreme than ice diving ?

Freediving naked in an iced like.

Stig Åvall Severinsen did it and set the world guiness record for "Longest swim under ice - breath held".

Although it was in 2010 I stumbled onto the video today and though it was totally worth a share!

Missing species in the database ? There's a button for that !

par Ksso le 12 novembre 2012

A couple users have been complaining about some species missing in our database. We heard you and added a button for that! At the bottom of the species picker page, you will find an "Add missing species" yellow button that will guide you into adding a species to the database.

The server will add the species, check out the whole hierarchy and reindex the whole species table, so the process may take about one or two minute but when it's done the new species can be immediately added to your logbook !

Diveboard Updates: Articles, RSS, Profiles, Mobile

par Ksso le 6 novembre 2012

This week's major update is bringing a bunch of heavy features for the party.

Starting by three of the most requested features:

Support for pressure in dive profiles

If your dive computer logs pressures, and if that data was in your past uploads, than you may want to check back your profiles as they now have one more graph for the pressure !

RSS feeds

On each user's homepage you'll find a link to the user's rss feed which includes public dives and published notes

Dive creation on the mobile

If you have the diveboard mobile app on iOS or Android, you must have received by now an update with a bunch of new long-awaited features: dive creation, offline dive logging, offline access to...

Diveboard updates: Picture gallery, speedy explore and feed, improved search

par Ksso le 17 septembre 2012

We made quite a few updates last week, that we "forgot" to advertise. You may have seen them already but in case you havent, here's what you missed:Full speed aheadThe activity feed and explore had been a real performance challenge, and now they are faster than ever. Pages load in under 0.2 secs and dragging the explore map is super-smooth. Although we did not add functionalities, we did change the algorithm to select the shown spots on the map and now it's more filled than ever.

Picture galleryFor some time now we've been manually selecting pictures that rocks uploaded by divers on Diveboard. We now built a beautiful way to browse through them pinterest-style with the new gallery page. ...

Getting more bottom time with the same bottle - how to become less of an air hoag

par Ksso le 28 août 2012

I've always been an air hoag - and getting into underwater photography only made things worse. This is not really an issue by itself, it's a bit annoying but can be managed just fine as long as your DM has a long hose to his octopus so you don't force all the group back to shorten their dive time by half.This led me into situations where I remember in this dive in Thailand the DM simply chose to have me get back to the boat from -23m all by myself while he carried on the exploration with the others. Again no big deal (set aside security questions raised by such behavior).When I started the CMAS 3* training - that started to be more of an issue. Training included freediving rescue...

3.000 divers logged 20.000 dives on Diveboard !

par Ksso le 17 août 2012

Diveboard just reached a new milestone, and this got us so excited we wanted to share the news with you.We just reached today 3.000 subscribed scuba divers who signed up to the service.Thanks to you and all the other Diveboard members, over 20.000 dives have been logged to Diveboardthroughout the seven seas!Those figures have been increasing at an exponential rate since Diveboard was unveiled on December 2011.At Diveboard we're very proud of your engagement on the platform. Together we're building the best online logbook - EVER.Since our latest email in February, tons of features have been delivered including: ...

Diveboard feature updates : dive shop pages and new layout

par Ksso le 17 juillet 2012

This update has been pending for more than we'd have liked it to ... but it's a major rework and hence updating the tests took a long while. Anyways, it's finally there, putting us back in our weekly update schedule! This week we have :Dive shop pagesThey're like your personal logbook, only for dive shops. Each dive shop owner can claim their page on diveboard (~5000 have already been created) and customise it with a proper description and picture... and "typical" dives they are doing. The idea here is that dive shops will provide "templates" of the dive with a list of the common species you can encounter, maybe some pictures and notes. Users will be able in the near future to import...