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 how it should schedule servicing (see Servicing below).
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 history of trips (date, time slot, departure/return, distance). If a boat has a GPS tracker fitted, its trips appear here automatically — each outing the tracker records becomes a trip a few hours after the boat returns, with the distance travelled worked out from the tracker. Boats without a tracker show only trips added by other parts of the system.
- Total Distance — for a boat with a GPS tracker, this is worked out from GPS automatically: a starting reading you set (any distance done before the tracker was fitted) plus everything GPS has logged since. It only ever goes up. A boat with no tracker keeps whatever distance you type in yourself.
- 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 progress back to zero.
Servicing — three ways to schedule it
On the boat's Edit panel, pick how that boat schedules its next service under Service scheduled by:
- Distance (odometer) — service every so many km/miles. On a tracked boat the progress follows the GPS distance automatically.
- Engine hours — service every so many engine hours. You enter the current hour-meter reading and the interval; update the reading now and then.
- Set schedule (time) — service every so many months from the date of the last service.
Whichever you choose, the service-progress bar (and the "due" warnings on the Boats list and the dashboard) count down against that basis, and turn amber as a service approaches and red once it's due.
The Tracker tab
If a boat has a GPS tracker fitted, the boat page shows two tabs at the top: Overview (everything above) and Tracker. The Tracker tab gives you everything the tracker reports:
- Live status — whether the tracker is online, when it last reported, battery level and whether it's powered from the boat, current speed and heading, satellites and signal strength.
- Where it's been — a map of the boat's track over the chosen period, with markers for the start of the period and its latest position.
- Battery & power — a chart of the boat's power supply and the tracker's backup battery over time. A drop in the supply line to zero shows the tracker lost power (for example an unplugged or blown fuse) while running on its backup battery.
- Alerts — a timeline of tracker alerts such as power cuts.
- Device telemetry — figures the tracker reports itself, such as its total distance and power-on hours.
Use the 24h / 7d / 30d buttons (top right) to change the period shown on the map, chart and alerts.
The Tracker tab only appears once a tracker is fitted and has sent its first report. If a boat has no tracker, you'll see a Request a tracker panel on the Overview tab instead.
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.