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Your digital logbook, a world map of dive sites and centres, and a living encyclopedia of 14,000+ marine species — built from sightings by divers like you.

14,000+

Marine species

1M+

Sightings mapped

190+

Countries covered

12 months

Of seasonality data

Everything a diver needs

One platform, surface to seabed

Digital logbook

Depth, time, gas, conditions, buddies and photos. Your whole dive history - searchable, sortable and impossible to lose on a boat.

Dive site map

Explore thousands of sites worldwide. Filter by difficulty, entry type and what lives there, then read real conditions from real logs.

Marine life encyclopedia

Over 14,000 species with photos, taxonomy and conservation status. Build your personal life list, one sighting at a time.

Sighting maps

Every logged sighting becomes a data point. See exactly where and when creatures appear - and know when the mantas arrive.

Dive centres

Find centres near your next trip, with affiliations, services and the sites they visit.

Works on the boat

No signal between dives? Log offline and DiveBuddy syncs everything when you are back in range.

Crowdsourced sightings

Know when the mantas arrive

Every dive logged with a species becomes a sighting on the map. As divers log around the world, DiveBuddy learns where marine life lives and when it shows up — so you can plan the trip around the encounter, not the other way round.

Browse any of 14,000+ species to see its sighting map and the months it is most often seen, region by region.

Reef manta ray sightings · Maldives

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