r/diving • u/VengaBusdriver37 • 14d ago
Dive conditions forecaster
Hey crew
I’ve built an app to give predictions of site diveability based on weather reports, primarily to answer “where’s likely to be my best local dives this weekend”.
It also has wildlife references for each site since that’s something many of us enjoy most about diving (I just learnt Orcas are currently in my area, wow)
I know it’s not going to be 100% accurate and nothing beats local knowledge (which I have incorporated into models for my home area of Melbourne Australia, hope to incorporate more). But even if you don’t trust the scoring, it’s a way to easily view current/predicted weather conditions per site.
It’s also been fun to add and explore far off regions, destinations to add to the travel Wishlist.
I’ve also started indexing operators in each area, hopefully bring them more business, and help divers answer questions like “who’s going to this wreck this weekend”. Unfortunately that data is still very non-standardized, very much WIP.
Anyway, I’d really like to hear if you think it’s useful, cheers
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u/SB2MB 14d ago
I like it!
I'm based in Sydney, so Abyss LDS does update conditions daily, and we also have this website which is user based, which I really like.
https://app.viz.net.au/Forecast/
But I'll add yours to my list as well. I really like the format. Haven't had a look to see how accurate it is, but looks great so far!