DiveSight
DiveSight is a marine intelligence platform that provides divers with daily forecasts of ocean conditions and marine life abundance for over 28,000 dive sites worldwide. The app combines institutional-grade satellite and oceanographic data with user-contributed dive logs to deliver depth-resolved temperature, currents, wave height, and species sighting predictions up to a week in advance.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data & Analytics
- Clean Technology
- Software Only
- Space Technology
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Problem
Divers struggle to predict what conditions and marine life they will encounter at dive sites, as most existing apps rely on surface-level weather data or sparse user-submitted reports that only cover a handful of locations on specific days. This leaves divers blind to underwater conditions like depth-resolved temperatures, currents, and visibility, as well as the timing of seasonal marine events such as sardine runs or manta cleaning station aggregations.
Solution
DiveSight provides a comprehensive dive forecasting platform that combines institutional-grade oceanographic data from sources like Copernicus Marine Service and HYCOM with user-contributed dive logs to deliver daily marine life abundance forecasts and 7-day condition predictions. The app features a Marine Life Index scored 0-100 for every site, depth-resolved temperature readings at the surface, 10m, and 30m depths, plus currents, wave height, tides, and a seasonal events calendar with predicted timing windows for bucket-list marine phenomena. Users can explore 28,000+ dive sites through an interactive heat map, search 6,000+ marine species to find where and when to see them, and access interactive 3D bathymetry for approximately 12,000 mapped sites. The platform also includes a universal dive logbook that imports from major dive computer formats and features two-way iNaturalist sync, allowing every dive to contribute to a global biodiversity record while giving back to the scientific community.
Target Audience
Primary users are recreational and technical divers, dive operators, and dive travel planners who need reliable forecasts for trip planning, as well as marine biologists and citizen scientists interested in contributing to and accessing biodiversity data through the platform's iNaturalist integration.
Features
- Marine Life Index (0-100) for every site, updated daily with 7-day forecasts based on satellite and oceanographic data feeds
- Depth-resolved temperature data at surface, 10m/30ft, and 30m/90ft levels, plus currents, wave height, tides, sun, and moon conditions
- Interactive 3D bathymetry for ~12,000 mapped sites (2,500 in high resolution) with rotatable terrain exploration
- Searchable database of 6,000+ marine species with seasonal timing predictions for events like sardine runs, manta cleaning stations, and whale shark aggregations
- Universal dive logbook that imports from all major dive computer file formats, including Apple Watch dive apps, with automatic ocean condition data fill-in
- Two-way iNaturalist sync that contributes user dive observations to global biodiversity records
- Offline functionality for downloading full site and species data for any region (Pro feature)
- Data attribution system using Copernicus Marine Service products (GLORYS12V1, OCEANCOLOUR, GLOBAL_ANALYSISFORECAST_WAV) with proper licensing and DOI citations