Dive Log Software

[KarsticGator]

Any suggestions on a good dive log program? I found several, with easy interfaces and query tools, but they weren't geared for technical diving. I'd like to find something that allows for logging of multiple mixes, deco, etc. (I'm trying to compile my dives into a nice form, from several different log books.)

Thanks

[Walter Pickel]

Any suggestions on a good dive log program? I found several, with easy interfaces and query tools, but they weren't geared for technical diving. I'd like to find something that allows for logging of multiple mixes, deco, etc. (I'm trying to compile my dives into a nice form, from several different log books.)

Thanks

If you find one, post it! Excel works well and if you are a developer build something.

Speaking of which, would anyone use an online version that did NOT download from a computer? I have thought many years about building an online tool but never had a reason (I use a paper notebook)...

[TommyB]

If you find one, post it! Excel works well and if you are a developer build something.

Speaking of which, would anyone use an online version that did NOT download from a computer? I have thought many years about building an online tool but never had a reason (I use a paper notebook)...

One I've seen ;
http://rob.lensen.nu/phpdivinglog

demo
http://rob.lensen.nu/divelog/

demo of it here;
http://www.borrett.id.au/divelog/
http://www.borrett.id.au/divelog/divestats.php

Front end is php, backend database of mysql


but it seems to interface into this app
http://www.divinglog.de/english/home...p?Site=Desktop

http://www.divinglog.de/english/feat...p?Site=Desktop

Have not messed with either yet, but I might just to see what it will do.

If you want to try and create your own,
http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/index.html

[Gary]

I recently moved my 1100+ dives into Scubase http://www.scubase.net/.

For me it took some sql work but the software has importers that can import dive logs from many other dive log softwares. Also it can download directly from several different computers.

The scubase divelog is very configurable. For instance I added fields for tracking tanks, types and gas usages for upto 10 tanks per dive, added checkboxes for tracking a number of dive conditions I've been tracking, etc

It maintains and displays detailed profile info and it has a number of very nice reporting features and graphs. Also can organize series of dive into "trips" and track and report on them that way as well.

It gives a lot of nice tools for reporting and customizing reports and some searching can be done using the reporting tools but not much for searching for specific text or an individual buddy, etc (though with some SQL can get around that limitation).

[TommyB]

thanks Gary.
Looking at it now.

Do you know if it works with mysql, or is it only MSsql that it works with?
Really not interested in joining that yahoo group just to read any of the how-to's etc.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

[Walter Pickel]

My personal favorite....

[FW]

I recently moved my 1100+ dives into ...

If you find one that will read and transfer my hen scratch, I might even go electronic

[Meister481]

I've used Suunto Dive Manager since I started diving OW. They update it every now and again. Great if you own a Suunto computer, but not so good for entering info from technical dives.

[Gary]

If you find one that will read and transfer my hen scratch, I might even go electronic

Unfortunately I had to type in roughly 400 dives that were on paper. I built software to enter basic data into the Bridge software: dates, generic profiles, tanks, gas mix and usage, etc. Then I had to type in the details and comments by hand. It was a days or weeks of work spreadout over several years. However, once I had it electronically logged it was relitively little effort to build translators, etc. to transfer it to Scubase.

More recently I stuck my paper logs into a scanner and scanned all of them to pdf in about an hour... I would recomend that as a good, simple solution to paper logs.