Your boats list records each vessel, its capacity, and a running history of fuel, servicing and trips — so you can see running costs and stay on top of maintenance.
When you'd use this
- Adding a boat or updating its details.
- Logging a fuel fill-up or a service.
- Reviewing a boat's trips and running costs.
Adding a boat
- Open Boats and add a vessel with its name, capacity, distance unit and service interval.
The boat detail page
Open a boat to see its dashboard and logs:
- Stat cards — Trips This Month, Distance This Month, Avg Distance / Trip, Fuel This Month — plus a service-progress bar.
- Fuel Log — press Add Fill-Up to record date, litres and cost. It works out litres per km and cost per distance.
- Distance — a cumulative-distance chart (7d / 14d / 30d / All).
- Trip Log — a read-only history of trips (date, time slot, departure/return, distance).
- Service History — press Log Service to record a service (Engine Service, Hull Clean, Safety Inspection, Propeller Service, Electrical, General) with cost and an optional certificate upload. Logging a service resets the boat's service counter.
Deactivating or deleting a boat
Open a boat, press Edit, then choose one of the two options at the bottom:
- Deactivate — hides the boat from active lists but keeps all its history. Use this for a boat that's out of service or sold. You can reactivate it any time. This is the safe, reversible choice.
- Delete — permanently removes the boat and its trip, fuel, service and GPS history. Schedule and trip-sheet entries that used the boat are kept, but their link to the boat is cleared. This cannot be undone.
If the boat still has a GPS tracker assigned, the delete is blocked with a message and a link to open a support ticket — the DiveOps team will unassign the tracker for you, then you can delete the boat.
Live GPS tracking
If a boat has a DiveOps GPS tracker fitted, its live position shows on the Fleet Map at the top of the Boats page.
- DiveOps configures each tracker and its SIM and links it to your boat before it ships — there's nothing to enter on the boat form. You fit the configured tracker to the boat yourself (it's a simple wired install; we send fitting instructions with it). Once it's fitted and reporting, the boat detail page shows the connected tracker under GPS Tracker, with a live online light (a green pulsing dot when reporting — "Online · last seen X min ago"), the current speed if it's moving, and a battery indicator — a charging icon when the tracker is powered from the boat, or a battery percentage when it's running on its internal backup battery. The same live light and battery also show next to the boat on the main Boats list, labelled "GPS Online · last seen X min ago" there.
- Once the tracker has a signal, the boat appears as a coloured dot on the map. The map zooms to fit your fleet automatically.
- Each boat shows "last seen X min ago" and its current speed, so you can tell at a glance which boats are out and which are at the pier.
- A coloured trail behind each boat shows where it has been over the last 24 hours — a quick way to see which sites the fleet has visited today.
- The map updates live — boat positions and trails refresh on their own every 30 seconds, no need to reload the page.
- Use the layers button (top-right of the map) to switch the background between Street (default) and Satellite (see boats against the real coastline and water), and to toggle the Sea marks overlay (moorings, depth marks and sea marks — on by default).
If a boat has no tracker, or the tracker hasn't reported yet, it simply won't appear on the map — everything else on the page still works. A boat without a tracker shows a "Request a tracker" banner on its detail page; press it to open a support ticket and we'll get a configured tracker out to you to fit to the boat.
Tips
- Fuel and service costs flow into Expenses automatically (shown as "Boat fuel" / "Boat service").
- GPS trackers are configured and linked to your boat by DiveOps before they ship; you fit the tracker to the boat. If a boat's position isn't showing, contact support rather than editing the boat.