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Frequently asked questions

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Everything you need to know about DIVR — what it is, how it works, and what comes next.

About DIVR
What is DIVR?

DIVR is the social home for scuba, free, and snorkel divers. Log every dive digitally — photos, stats, location, buddies — and it becomes a post your followers can experience with you.

Think of it like a logbook and a social feed in one place. No more paper logbooks. No more dive stories trapped in a drawer. Just where divers connect.

Who is DIVR for?

DIVR is for anyone who breathes underwater. Whether you're a newly-certified Open Water diver, a free diving competitor, a tech diver counting your hundredth wreck, or a snorkeller who just wants to keep track of the cool stuff you've seen — DIVR is built for you.

When does DIVR launch?

DIVR launches on iOS soon. We're putting the final touches on the app and getting ready for the App Store. Join the waitlist on our homepage and you'll be the first to know when we go live.

How much will DIVR cost?

We're still working out exactly what pricing will look like. The plan is to keep the core experience — logging dives, sharing them, connecting with other divers — available to as many divers as possible.

Whatever we land on, we'll be transparent about it before launch. No surprise subscriptions.

Will DIVR be available on Android?

Eventually, yes. We're launching on iOS first because it lets us focus on getting one platform really right before expanding. Android is on the roadmap.

If you're an Android diver and want to be notified when we open the Android waitlist, drop us an email at hello@divrhq.com.

Using the app
How does DIVR work — what does a "dive post" look like?

When you finish a dive, you open DIVR and create a new dive log. You add:

  • The location (search for known dive sites or pin a new one)
  • Depth, bottom time, temperature, visibility
  • Any photos or video you captured
  • The dive buddies you were with
  • Notes about what you saw or how it felt

When you save the dive, you have two choices: post it to your feed so followers can see and react to it, or save it as a private dive log just for your own records. Either way, it counts toward your stats and stays in your logbook forever.

Can I log dives without sharing them?

Absolutely. Every time you record a dive, you can choose to either post it to your feed or save it as a dive log only. Dive logs that aren't posted to your feed stay in your personal logbook — they count toward your stats, but nobody else can see them.

You can also make your whole account private at any time from your profile settings, which limits who can see your feed posts overall.

Can I import my existing paper logbook?

Yes. DIVR has a built-in AI logbook scanner. Snap a photo of a logbook page and our AI extracts the dive data — date, location, depth, time, buddy, notes — into a new digital dive log ready for you to review and post.

Importantly: we don't keep the photo of your logbook page. The image is processed by the AI service to extract the data and then discarded. It's not stored in your account or used to train AI models. (More detail in our Privacy Policy.)

What information can I record about a dive?

The essentials:

  • Dive site name and location
  • Date and time
  • Depth (max and average)
  • Bottom time
  • Water temperature
  • Visibility
  • Gear and gas mix
  • Dive buddies
  • Photos and videos
  • Notes about what you saw, how it felt, or anything else worth remembering

You don't have to fill in every field for every dive — even a quick "I went to this site today, saw a turtle" with a photo counts as a dive log.

Can I tag dive buddies?

Yes. You can tag any DIVR user as a dive buddy on your dive log. They'll be notified, and their name on the dive becomes a link to their profile — so anyone viewing the dive can quickly see who you were with.

You can only tag people who already have a DIVR account. If your dive buddy isn't on DIVR yet, send them an invite — they'll thank you later.

Privacy & safety
Will my dive locations be visible to strangers?

Only if you want them to be. There are two layers of control:

  • Per-dive — when you record a dive, you choose whether to post it to your feed or just save it to your logbook. Dives saved to your logbook are not visible to anyone else.
  • Account-level — if your account is set to private, only people you approve as followers can see anything you post. If it's public, anyone on DIVR can see your feed posts.

Combined, that means you can share freely, share with just followers, or keep dives entirely to yourself. Protecting fragile dive sites matters, and we built the privacy controls with that in mind.

Who can see my dives?

It depends on two things:

  • Whether you posted the dive or just saved it. Dives saved to your logbook (not posted) are visible only to you.
  • Whether your account is public or private. Public accounts mean anyone on DIVR can see your posted dives. Private accounts mean only approved followers can.

You can change your account between public and private at any time from your profile settings.

Does DIVR sell my data?

No. Never.

We don't sell your personal data to advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else. We don't show third-party ads in DIVR. We don't build advertising profiles based on your dives, locations, or behaviour.

We also don't use your dive logs or photos to train AI models. The full detail is in our Privacy Policy — written in plain English so you can actually read it.

What about photo privacy?

When you upload a photo or video to DIVR, we automatically strip the embedded metadata (EXIF data) — things like GPS coordinates, camera model, and capture time — before storing it.

This protects you from accidentally leaking the exact GPS location of a private or sensitive dive site that's baked into the photo file itself. The photo still looks exactly the same; we just remove the hidden technical metadata.

Practical stuff
How do I contact support?

Email hello@divrhq.com. That's the inbox for everything — bugs, account questions, privacy requests, partnership pitches, dive trip stories. A real human reads every message.

We aim to reply within a few working days. For privacy-related requests, formal response times are explained in our Privacy Policy.

I have a feature request — where do I send it?

Send it to hello@divrhq.com. Genuinely — we read every suggestion, and divers know best what divers need.

The best feature requests are specific: "I'd love to see X because Y". Even a quick "wouldn't it be cool if…" is welcome.

Still have a question?

Drop us a line. We genuinely read every email.

hello@divrhq.com