Log Your Dives
Bring dive information together and build a meaningful record of underwater experiences.
Scuba Network Ambassador
My Journey With Scuba Network
As a Scuba Network ambassador, I support a community-minded way of diving: record what you see, share useful observations, and help turn dive logs into credible ocean intelligence.
Scuba Sam has always been about sharing genuine diving experiences, helping people learn about the underwater world, changing misconceptions about sharks, and encouraging ocean education and conservation. Scuba Network fits that naturally because it treats a dive as more than a memory. It can be a story, a learning moment, and a useful observation from a place most people will never see first-hand.
Partnership principles
- Transparency: partnerships and ambassador messages are clearly labelled.
- Ocean-first: content should encourage better choices for reefs, sharks, and communities.
- No harmful interactions: no touching, chasing, cornering, or staging wildlife for content.
- Useful dive data: depth, temperature, visibility, species, reef condition, and debris observations matter.
What is Scuba Network?
More Than a Dive Logbook
At its simplest, Scuba Network is building an interconnected platform around diving: logs, sites, observations, dive professionals, community information and ocean tools living in one ecosystem.
Discover Dive Sites
Explore locations using community dive activity, real conditions and site information.
Ocean Science
Help turn diver observations into structured information that can support a wider ocean picture.
Record What You See
Add conditions, species sightings, photos and habitat notes alongside depth and time.
Report Ghost Gear
Use tools designed around recording lost fishing gear and marine debris observations.
Connect the Dive Community
Divers, centres, clubs, liveaboards and dive professionals can exist within the same ecosystem.
From a dive to data
One Dive Can Tell a Bigger Story
Citizen science starts with a simple idea: divers are already there, already observing, and often already recording the details that help explain what is happening beneath the surface.
- 01Go Diving
- 02Log the Dive
- 03Add Observations
- 04Build Useful Ocean Data
- 05Help Us Understand the Ocean
Divers see a part of our planet most people never experience first-hand.
On a normal dive, we may notice water temperature, visibility, marine species, habitat conditions, debris, or changes at a familiar site. One observation is small. Many observations from many divers can become far more useful.
Water temperatureVisibilityMarine speciesHabitat conditionDebrisSite changes
For everyday divers
Built Around the Way We Dive
Scuba Network can be practical as well as purposeful: somewhere for the details, the memories, the stats and the community knowledge around each dive.
Dive centres & liveaboards
Connecting Divers With the People Who Make Diving Possible
Scuba Network also provides pages for parts of the dive industry such as dive centres, shops, liveaboards and clubs. That matters to Scuba Sam because dive centres and liveaboards are already a major part of my own diving journey.
Dive Centres
Local knowledge, training, guiding and community.
Liveaboards
The vessels and teams that open up remote dive regions.
Dive Shops
Gear, advice and support before and after dives.
Dive Clubs
Shared experience, buddies, trips and learning.
Ocean science
Every Dive Has the Potential to Contribute
Citizen science does not mean every diver suddenly becomes a professional scientist. It means divers are already underwater, already noticing things, and often already recording information. Scuba Network can help structure those observations so they may contribute to a much bigger picture of what is happening below the surface.
Ghost gear
Spot Something That Shouldn't Be There?
Ghost gear is lost or abandoned fishing gear that can keep harming marine life long after it has been left behind. Scuba Network includes tools designed to help record or report these sightings, so useful information can get to the people best placed to act on it.
Discover the Ocean Tools →Why it fits Scuba Sam
Why Scuba Network Matters to Me
I started Scuba Sam to share the underwater world I love, especially the animals and experiences that are often misunderstood. But diving can be more than seeing incredible things. Every dive gives us an opportunity to learn something about the ocean.
That is one of the reasons Scuba Network interests me. It brings together diving, exploration, community and ocean information, helping the experiences we already have underwater become part of something bigger.
Scuba Network + my diving journey
Explore. Experience. Share. Learn. Contribute.
My diving adventures lead to wildlife encounters, photos, videos, stories and questions. Scuba Network adds another layer: a way for the wider dive community to connect those experiences with useful information.
- Explore
My diving adventures
- Experience
Wildlife and environments
- Share
Photos, video and stories
- Learn
Understand what is happening underwater
- Contribute
Support a better connected diving community
The ocean is better understood when we explore it together