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Largest 360º underwater image

by Ksso on July 09, 2012

National Geographic Fellow Corey Jaskolski's new 3-D technology puts you in the driver's seat and lets you explore the deepest underwater caves and the inner reaches of King Tut's tomb.

Dive with comfort: the thermo-formed mouthpiece

by Ksso on July 07, 2012

If you have been diving a bit, you may have encountered that jaw muscles fatigue after a long dive where you've been biting that mouthpiece a bit too hard. This is even more common on rental regulators where I've experiences the most oddly shaped mouthpieces ever. Even since I got my own regs, and despite the overall comfort bump they brought me, I kept finding myself over-biting the mouthpiece to ensure it stays firmly in my mouth.I've heard about those thermoformed mouthpieces for a while and when I finally found one in my LDS (local dive shop) I grabbed it and took it for a spin ! I bought the only brand they had: "JAX from DrBrux" which was co-branded by Mares (?) (apparently DrBrux...

Happy world oceans day !

by Ksso on June 08, 2012

World Oceans Day is being celebrated by millions of people all over the globe. Be a part of the movement to protect our oceans!Visit http://oneworldoneocean.org and http://worldoceansday.org to see more amazing videos about the ocean and learn what you can do to help protect it

Make your own robotic submarine

by Ksso on May 30, 2012

Brainchild of Eric Stackpole, the OpenROV is an open-source platform for underwater robotic exploration. Built out of cheap parts, this is the first below-1000$ submarine - but without any compromise. Rated for 100m (330ft), featuring an HD camera and a 1.5hrs of running time thanks to its 8 C batteries, tethered to the surface through a 10Mb link, this tiny robot opens up plenty cool new perspectives for spending extra down-time once you've emptied your tank! Wether you want to use it to map a complex cave, or simply follow a fish to its nest or snag pictures of fellow scuba divers, the OpenROV is an incredible tool that's actually affordable ! Kits should be available later this summer...

Fish round up: the nudibranch that borrowed chlorophyl from its food

by Ksso on May 18, 2012

Wired had a cool piece one one of the divers's biggest crush : nudibranchs. If you're a diver, and even more if you're an (wannabe) underwater macro photographer - you know how beautiful and photogenic those babies can be. But it's not the colors or shape that we'll be interested on with Elysia chlorotica, but how it's using some genes and photosynthesizing organelles from the algae it's feeding on. As wired reports, Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa“This could be a fusion of a plant and an animal — that’s just cool,”...

Diveboard updates: SAC and RMV calculations

by Ksso on May 03, 2012

Consumption rate can be expressed in equivalent terms of either pressure (SAC - Surface Air Consumption = PSI per minute or bar per minute) or volume (RMV - Respiratory Minute Volume = cubic feet per minute or liters per minute). Both of those numbers are important, and are used for different purposes.

RMV is used for dive planning

SAC is used for dive execution

Thanks to John and Jason on Diveboard's uservoice ideabox we now calculate properly both values and display them in your profile for each of your tanks.To get those calculations done, simply edit your dive, head to the "profile" tab, add one or many tanks and make sure you provide the volume and start/end pressures and you're good...

Diveboard feature updates : Activity feed settings

by Ksso on April 13, 2012

When we launched the activity feed a few weeks ago, it was a bit rough on the edges but we had to see it live to understand how to make it really useful. Getting one step closer to this goal we have now added a settings pane to the activity feed, which can be accessed through the wheel, top-right to the feed.This settings pane will let you understand what you are following and will give you recommendation as to chat may be of interest for you regarding your diving history. Hope you find this useful !

Videos taken from 3682m depth : Deepsea Challenge & James Cameron

by Ksso on March 27, 2012

Can't wait to see the full footage but in the meantime this teaser from National Geographics is breathtaking !

Diveboard Feature updates: better friends picker

by Ksso on March 26, 2012

A couple updates this week, most are under the hood, but one has quite some impact : a better friend picker.

We added pictures to your friends (even those manually entered, as long as you provide an email and that they have a gravatar picture)

Facebook friends search are showing your friends first and then a list of "other" people

If you enter a friend's email, he can be notified by email that he has been tagged in your dive (coming to diveboard and facebook later)

We also finally enabled the "publish to timeline" function. If you want your dives to appear on your timeline, head to the Dive Manager, select them all and apply the "publish to timeline" function - do not fear, if a dive was...

James Cameron 35756ft deep

by Ksso on March 26, 2012

Yesterday, James Cameron's deep sea challenge bacame been the first person solo diving in a submersible at the bottom of the oceans, 35756 ft deep. Cameron arrived at the bottom with the tech to collect scientific data, specimens, and visions unthinkable in 1960, when the only other manned Challenger Deep dive took place, according to members of the National Geographic expedition.Chek out the whole story on National Geographics !