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

par Ksso le 7 janvier 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

par Ksso le 7 janvier 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 !

par Ksso le 31 décembre 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...

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

par Ksso le 3 décembre 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 !

par Ksso le 21 novembre 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!

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...

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...