ScubaVagabonds

More currencies for your dive courses

We have added more currencies to our system, in fact almost all currencies supported by PayPal. The only exceptions are the Turkish Lira, Malaysian Ringgit and the Brazilian Real as these currencies are for in-country PayPal accounts only.

Don’t miss this opportunity to present your dives and courses to the ScubaVagabonds community. Simply enable dive course bookings for your customers and use ScubaVagabonds as an additional sales channel. A short video tutorial on how to create dives and courses can be found here. Visit our FAQs for dive shops and our price list for further information.

Offer your dive courses on ScubaVagabonds.com and choose now among the following 21 currencies:

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Upload and share your underwater pictures

Hello Everybody,

A couple of days ago we have further enhanced the feature list of ScubaVagabonds. You are now able to upload your dive pictures to your new photo album. Share your breathtaking underwater pictures among all members of the ScubaVagabonds community or restrict the visibility to registered members or your friends or simply create your private album.

Currently only members will have one album each. For the near future we are planning to provide you with an unlimited amount of albums for uploading pictures, videos and audio files. Albums for dive schools and liveaboard operators will be available soon, too.

Navigate to your album and present your pics to the community! Check out the gallery and browse through the albums of your fellow members!

To launch our liveaboard booking engine ScubaClick Ltd is organizing a Guinness World Record™ attempt in the category ‘Most People Scuba Diving’ in Swanage, Dorset, United Kingdom. The event will take place on Sat­ur­day the 24th Sep­tem­ber 2011 with Sun­day the 25th being reserved should the weather not be favourable on the Sat­ur­day.

Now, all we need is you! First and foremost we need divers to take part. The current record is held by the Indonesian Navy with 2.486 divers diving simul­ta­ne­ously in August 2009. To help with surface cover we need kayak operators as well as dive boat operators.

The primary aim of the world record attempt is to rais­e money for local and national char­i­ties such as:

• Swan­age Heroes Haven: a reg­is­tered local char­ity rais­ing money to pur­chase, equip and run a spe­cially adapted log cabin for the use of dis­abled ser­vice per­son­nel and their fam­i­lies on a local hol­i­day park in Swan­age
• The RNLI: a charity for beach and sea safety
• The Scuba Trust: a disabled diving charity

All divers will be asked to pay £10 to take part in the event and to raise fur­ther money through per­sonal spon­sor­ship. We thus hope to raise over £150,000 for char­i­ta­ble causes.

Please follow this link for further information on the event. Hope to see you all in Swanage celebrating the new record!

About ScubaClick Ltd:

ScubaClick is a live­aboard man­age­ment, reser­vation and online book­ing sys­tem confirming bookings in real-time. The launch is slated for August 1st, 2011. We are currently accepting registrations for our beta phase starting July 1st, 2011. The beta is open to all liveaboard operators. Register now and save the registration fee!

Invite all your friends, dive buddies and customers to join ScubaVagabonds

Hello Everybody,

ScubaVagabonds has been released into the open water a few months ago. We would like to use this opportunity for a short review and a preview of what you can expect within the next couple of months.

There are currently 125 members and more than 65 dive schools listed on ScubaVagabonds connecting divers and dive shops from around the world. Many thanks again for joining us. Now is the perfect time to push ScubaVagabonds one step up the ladder by increasing the number of members on a large scale. We kindly ask you to invite all your friends, dive buddies and customers to join us, making ScubaVagabonds the largest social network dedicated to all aspects of scuba diving. We need your help to achieve this ambitious goal. To make it even simpler you will find an invite tool in your account. Help us by spreading the word!

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You probably have noticed that the upload of user and dive school avatars did not work during the last couple of weeks. We truly apologize for the inconvenience caused!

But we are happy to inform you that this problem is fixed now and you should be able to upload your avatar and thus be able to complete your profiles on ScubaVagabonds.com.

Moreover we have added two more payment methods for dive shops. Besides PayPal you now have the option to pay the commissions for successful bookings by MoneyGram or bank transfer. To change your method of payment please visit ”Your dive school > Admin > Dive School Settings”.

Yesterday we have added another new feature to ScubaVagabonds. Have a look on your profile, click on “Send Invites” and send messages to your friends, dive buddies and dive shops and invite them to join ScubaVagabonds! We need your help to spread the word! Thanks!

It just got easier to invite friends and to keep in touch with the scuba community!

Hello Everybody,

on most pages and many activity items you can now find a flag link at the bottom. Clicking this link will notify both myself and Stefan that something might be wrong with this item. This gives us a chance to review the item and decide for ourselves whether we leave it as it is or remove the item.

Over the next couple weeks we will enable moderation tools for more and more content types. Once we’re done Stefan, myself and you, our users, will be able to moderate any kind of content here on ScubaVagabonds.

We also need your help in moderating content. By working together we can all help keep ScubaVagabonds clean :)

Have a nice day!

Anybody who visited ScubaVagabonds in the last few minutes probably experienced some site problems. These happened due to our upgrades to Events. We have included a calendar and it is now possible for any member of an event to invite their friends. Events can now be scheduled in regular intervals and the number of attendees can be restricted. There were also some minor improvements, like search capability and sorting of events.

Head on over to our events page and check it out!

Over the last few days we have noticed that in some cases the location of a dive school was not geocoded properly from the address. The reason for this was that Google did not recognize the street name and returned no information. We have now slightly changed the way this is being handled and every dive school should now show a proper Google map on their profile.

Please respond to this post should you still experience any problems with dive school locations on maps!

From now on we can all embed images and videos directly into the activity stream here on ScubaVagabonds.com. The following sites are supported:

• YouTube
• Blip.tv
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• Flickr
• Hulu
• Viddler
• Qik
• Revision3
• Photobucket
• Scribd
• WordPress.tv

It’s very easy to do. You just paste an url from a site above into an activity update and the rest is being done for you! Here’s an example from Vimeo.

Enjoy!