Keeps a signed record of every dive your centre runs, laid out like a paper dive log sheet, for centres in places where the law requires one (such as Malta). Divers, cylinders and gas fill in from your bookings, so the boat only types what changed.
When you'd use this
- You operate somewhere that requires a signed log for every training or fun dive.
- You need a record of each diver on each dive (certification, cylinder, gas, air in and out, OK after the dive), the risk assessment and briefing checks, the conditions, and who signed it.
- Your inspector may ask to see these records on site, going back two years.
Before you start
- The Dive Log appears only for centres set to a country where it is required. If you don't see it, ask your centre owner.
- Open the Dive Log and click the settings button (the gear):
- Director of Diving: the person who countersigns every sheet. Their phone number shows at the top of the log.
- Chamber number: shown at the top of the log with the emergency number, one tap to call.
- Diver defaults: your usual cylinder size, fill pressure and nitrox mix. A booking that asked for a 15 litre tank or nitrox uses that instead.
- Anyone on the team can fill in a log. Only the dive's own instructor or guide (or the Director of Diving) can sign it, and only the Director of Diving can countersign.
How to log a dive
- Open Dive Log from the sidebar. Each instructor or guide has one sheet for the day, with a tab for each dive (Dive 1, Dive 2). Use the date arrows to move between days.
- Before the dive: check the dive site, choose the waves and the wind speed (Beaufort force, 0 to 7 or more; each button shows the knots), and add a conditions note or the vehicle if you need to. The divers are already listed from the bookings; correct anything that changed.
- Go through the three checklists (site risk assessment, briefing, emergency equipment). All OK answers a whole section; then change any exception. A No asks for a short note. Answer the two sign-off questions, then tap Sign plan and draw your signature in the box with a finger, pen or mouse.
- After the dive: type the times in and out as four numbers on the keypad, for example 1035 for 10:35 (they fill in if Diver Watch was used), the maximum depth and the site dived. Type each diver's air out, tap All OK after dive and change anyone who was not OK. If a diver was not OK, write what happened in Notes / deviations / incidents. Tap Sign dive and draw your signature.
- Countersign: when every dive on a sheet is signed, the Director of Diving opens it, reads it, taps Countersign sheet and draws their signature. The sheet locks and can no longer be changed. Each signature is a drawing made at that moment, and it prints on the PDF next to the name and time. Logs signed before drawn signatures existed print "Signed in the app". The To sign tab lists every sheet waiting for the Director of Diving across all days, and past sheets the instructor hasn't finished; its number counts everything on that list. The number on Today counts today's sheets that are started but not yet countersigned. Tap one to open that day's sheet.
- For an inspection: each sheet has a PDF button that prints that day's sheet, laid out like a paper dive log. In History, each signed dive has its own PDF link that opens that dive on the same paper-style sheet. To print a whole period, choose the dates and tap PDF (up to 31 days) or Excel (up to two years). The Excel file has a Dives tab and a Divers tab, with every checklist answer and who signed, and when.
Tips
- Everything saves as you go ("Saved" shows by the sign button), so a dropped signal or a closed page loses nothing.
- If a diver is added to or taken off the boat after you started, the log shows New on the boat or No longer on the boat with a button to update the list. Use Add a diver for a walk-in.
- Ran an extra dive? Tap Add another dive on the sheet.
- Diving somewhere that isn't on your list? Choose Somewhere else under Dive site (or Site dived) and type the name. It prints on the PDF and Excel like any other site.
- Spotted a mistake after signing a dive, before it is countersigned? The instructor or the Director of Diving can tap Reopen to correct, fix it and sign again. The reopening is recorded.
- Bell reminders (ask DiveOps support to switch them on for your centre): the bell shows "Dive log not signed" for a past day the instructor hasn't finished, and "Dive log ready to countersign" when a signed sheet has waited 3 days for the Director of Diving. One reminder per sheet, checked every hour. It goes away by itself once the sheet is signed. Tap it to open the To sign tab.
- A dive keeps the instructor it was first logged under. If you change who leads on the trip sheet afterwards, the dive stays on the first instructor's sheet.
Troubleshooting
- Symptom: the sign button says only the instructor or the Director of Diving can sign → Cause / fix: you are logged in as someone else. You can still fill it in; the instructor or the Director of Diving signs.
- Symptom: "Add a note for …" when signing the plan → Cause / fix: an item is answered No. Write what it is and what you did about it.
- Symptom: "The risk level is not acceptable" → Cause / fix: don't dive. Change the plan or the site, then answer again.
- Symptom: "Every diver needs air out and an OK after dive answer" → Cause / fix: fill the missing air out boxes, or tap All OK after dive.
- Symptom: "no dives to log" for the day → Cause / fix: place the divers on the trip sheet or group them on the Planner first; the dive then appears here.
- Symptom: a sheet says "no longer on the board" → Cause / fix: its group was moved or removed after the dive was logged. Finish and sign it there as usual.
Related
- Diver Watch (in-water check-in that fills the times)
- Planner and trip sheets (where the day's divers are grouped)