From your first course to your first trip.

Find a shop

A shop that teaches the way you learn.

Discover has a switch between fun dives and courses. On the courses side you see what each shop teaches and send your question from the same page.

• Your language. Look for shops that teach in the language you think in, so the theory and the briefings make sense.
• Your dates. Pick the days you have free and see who has room. Near me uses your location only for that search, and nothing is stored.
• Courses, not trips. Training sessions are never listed as trips to join. You ask about a course, and the shop plans the sessions with you.
• Ask first. An enquiry can be a simple question or a request to enrol. Asking costs nothing, and the shop tells you what it needs next.

Browse shopsHow discovery works

Before you arrive

Paperwork once per shop, not on the jetty.

After the shop accepts your request, it sends its waiver and medical form. You fill them in at home, in your own time.

• The waiver. Read the shop’s own waiver and sign it on your phone. You sign once per shop, and a sealed copy is kept.
• Medical questions. Answer the medical form fresh for each shop. Your answers go to the shop’s owner and admins, and never to other divers.
• Physician clearance. If an answer needs a doctor’s clearance, you upload it with the form, so the shop knows before you arrive.
• Younger divers. A parent or guardian manages the account of a younger diver.

How the paperwork works

First dives

Every dive your instructor signs is yours to keep.

After a training dive, your instructor or guide checks the entry and verifies it. It stays in your logbook, and anything you change is marked as yours.

• Verified by your instructor. The person who dived with you signs the entry: site, depth, time and conditions.
• Add what you saw. Note your gear, your air and the animals you met. Each sighting joins your species list.
• My journey. A timeline of your firsts: first dive, first boat dive, first night dive, deepest so far, and each course you complete with its date and shop.
• Your earlier steps. Dived before you found DiveHive? Add those milestones by hand. They are labelled as self-reported.

See the logbook

At your pace

Guidance that stays on your terms.

As you learn, DiveHive can point out what to check first and what might come next. It is advice you can switch off, never a gate.

• Comfort zones. Say how you feel about current, depth, night, cold water, low visibility or small boats: new to this, some experience, or comfortable. Only you set them, and only the shops you book with see them.
• Dive fit. On a trip you see good fit, check first or not a fit, with the reasons. Check first is guidance, not a block. The shop and your training decide.
• Refresher hints. After a long break from diving, you get a hint to think about a refresher with a shop near you. It is a hint, nothing more.
• Suggestions you control. Course suggestions by notification come at most once a week, and you can mute them in your privacy settings.