Why I recommend Dive Number.

In this essay I want to tell you exactly why we recommend using our application for recording dives. Besides the obvious fact that it is ours and we created it, support it and love it, there are reasons why I can confidently recommend using it for your recordings.

First and foremost, it is very easy to use. Yes, this is one of the main reasons and I want to say that this is an advantage over others. When creating this version of the logbook, and it was not the first, I wanted to make it as easy to fill in as possible. I didn’t like the fact that you constantly have to enter the same boring data from the keyboard into different fields without getting any pleasure from it. So I think that this pushes many away from keeping a logbook, and some give up filling it out. It happens that a person dives in the same conditions for years and these sheets in the notebook are simply no different. Except for the date and dive number.

And what we did was record data without using the keyboard, we don't enter numbers into the fields, we just playfully swipe, twist and tap with our finger on the phone screen. So to fill in the dive time, we kind of flip the watch face. Scrolling the screen down deeper and deeper as if we were diving into the sea, we will select the depth of our dive that took place. Simply tapping the screen, we select the tank and the suit in which we were diving. And it all happens very quickly and easily. After each selected parameter, we simply swipe the screen to the side to move to the next parameter and so we fill in all the data from beginning to end, not forgetting any of them and preferably not ignoring any of them. As our new user once told me - it just looks like a game, not a boring diary.

Another reason and my pride is our map of diving sites, which currently has over 28 thousand dive sites around the world. I think it is the largest map of famous dive sites that I have found on the Internet. Our map is updated with new dive sites every day, and this is done by our users. New sites undergo mandatory moderation, I spend a lot of time checking new submitted sites before they get into the general database.

Confirming a dive to your buddy. By designating someone as your buddy, selecting them from the list on the buddy screen, they will receive a message that you are asking them to confirm this dive. If the person really dived with you, they will confirm your dive and this will be like a digital signature in your logbook. This request can be sent to several people who dived with you in the same group. Thus, confirming the dive request confirms it for both you and your buddy. Also, if one of you is particularly lazy, dive data such as depth, time and location can be transferred to your buddy if he chooses this during confirmation.

Saving your recordings in the cloud. This is another argument I want to make. So I understand that modern applications simply have to use this technology and it should be by default. We use Google's cloud, which I hope adds reliability to their stability and security.