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Subsurface 2013 Underwater Photo Contest

by Elche on April 18, 2013

The divingiscool.com scuba diving magazine and its Hungarian

partner site, divecenter.hu organize picture of the month contests since 2007

and shootout competitions since 2009. During the last few years the

photographers sent hundreds of images to the picture of the month contests

and this traditional online contest is still going on with different subjects

every month. There is a video snapshot contest since 2010 as well. They felt

maybe they are able to organize a different kind of competition, an annual one

with modified rules and valuable prizes. After a few months of work the two

websites proudly announce a new international photo contest with 4200 USD in ...

Support Coralbot on Kickstarter

by Ksso on April 17, 2013

We first heard about the Coralbot about a year ago. Imagined by a team of scientists from the Heriot-Watt university, the projects leverages on research on swarm intelligence to provide an innovative solution to restore the function of reefs, both shallow and deep across the globe. They just launched a kickstarter project to raise 107 000$ to build prototypes to demonstrate their approach.

Coral-bots are a team of robots that intelligently navigate across a damaged coral reef, transplanting pieces of healthy corals along the way. The big job of developing and testing the robots at sea has already been done. All that remains is to embed the robots with computer vision to “see” healthy bits...

RSS for news feed?

by Sander Nijdam on February 14, 2013

Is there an RSS-feed for the news on the Community-page? I could not find a link or address to such a thing.

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...