Why we built Diverie

We want to keep that day in the ocean
with everyone who was there.

On the boat after a dive, or while logging, we show each other the photos and videos we took that day. "Did you get that shot just now?" — and everyone leans in over one screen.

But getting a copy of them is surprisingly hard. Depending on the phones, sometimes they just won't send, and some people find it awkward to ask for a copy if it means swapping contact details.

A sea turtle swimming in the blueLight shining into a cave at Kumomi

And the photos and videos just sit in your phone's album in date order. Which ocean, which dive, who you were with — it all comes down to memory. The same video ends up on as many phones as there were buddies, yet the fact that "we dove together that day" is kept nowhere. Logs are handwritten, too, and hard to look back on.

So we built a place where everyone can keep it together.

A place that gathers everyone's photos and videos from the day into one spot, and keeps them with each and every dive.

A school of fish over the rocks

Open it and you're right back in that ocean, so you can talk about that day whether you meet up or are far apart. So that when a memory suddenly comes back, that moment is right there. So that the ocean of that day never fades. That is the kind of place we want Diverie to be.

A sea turtle in the light

Looking ahead

The records that many divers leave behind can also be clues to what the ocean is like right now — when and where, and what marine life people met. We hope those records can be a small help in understanding the ocean, and in protecting the seas where corals and marine life live.

We also want to take some of the booking and paperwork off the shops and guides who make diving possible, so they have more time for the ocean and their guests — and, now and then, time to rest.

Divers, everyone involved in diving, and the ocean itself — we will keep building something that stands by all of them.

Kenichiro KomatsuDeveloper of Diverie and a diver

Starting with your next dive, keep it together with everyone.

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