Guides

How to get the most out of DIVR, how to read the reef you dive on, and how to bring in the dives your computer already recorded.

Small orange reef fish swarming over a coral slope in blue water

Using DIVR 3 min read

Log your first dive

From the + tab to the Dive logged message: what each part of the form is for, and what can wait.

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Add the species you saw
Search by common or scientific name, say how many you saw, and why 'not seen' counts as a record.
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Rate the coral and report bleaching
Three quick questions about the reef, what each step of the scale means, and when to leave it blank.
Using DIVR 2 min read
Import dives from your dive computer
Bring in dives from the file your computer's own software exports: which formats work, the limits, and what happens to duplicates.
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Share your sightings with science
What Contribute to Marine Science sends to OBIS, EMODnet and GBIF, what never leaves DIVR, and how to turn it off.
Reef and science 3 min read
Reading a reef: what coral health looks like
What healthy, bleached and dead coral look like underwater, how the 1 to 5 scale maps onto them, and why it matters.
Reef and science 3 min read
Better underwater photos for better records
Practical habits that turn a nice photo into one that can identify a species, from getting closer to showing the right side.
Dive computers 1 min read
Get your Suunto dives into DIVR
The Suunto app already exports each dive as a file. Share it to DIVR and the dive arrives with its depth profile, temperature and tank pressure, ready for a site and a species list.
Dive computers 1 min read
Get your Shearwater dives into DIVR
Shearwater Cloud on your computer exports your dives as UDDF. Upload that file to DIVR and each dive arrives with its full profile, gas switches and deco stops.
Free PDFs PDF, 8 pages
How to pick a dive site
The checks that separate a great dive from an expensive boat ride, and the questions worth asking before you book.
Free PDFs PDF, 7 pages
Fish ID for divers
Why identification is genuinely hard, how to photograph for it, and the lookalike traps that catch everybody.
Free PDFs PDF, 7 pages
Reading a reef
What to look at on your next dive, what each sign actually means, and how to record it so it counts.
Free PDFs PDF, 6 pages
The 30-second dive log
What to record, in what order, and why each field matters. Before your hair dries.

Try it on your next dive

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Log your first dive

All guides

Add the species you saw

Rate the coral and report bleaching

Import dives from your dive computer

Share your sightings with science

Reading a reef: what coral health looks like

Better underwater photos for better records

Get your Suunto dives into DIVR

Get your Shearwater dives into DIVR

How to pick a dive site

Fish ID for divers

Reading a reef

The 30-second dive log

Try it on your next dive