Alex is a serial entrepreneur, occasional code monkey (especially since the start of Diveboard).
He got hooked to diving while passing his PADI openwater on the French Riviera. He's now a CMAS 2* As a computer geek he loves the metrics and the gadgets - he got his hands early on a Mares M2 dive computer and a underwater housing for his Olympus µ camera. Probably time to upgrade both of those!
Alex focuses on the Web and cuddles the servers.

Pascal has been spending a lot of time doing IT Project/Program Management for big corporations, especially for Telco operators.
DiveBoard has been the highly inspiring occasion of reconnecting with first loves: coding C++ and HTML/Javascript.

He discovered scuba diving a few years ago and really got addicted when diving on especially beautiful sites like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Now he's always looking for places where to go next!

Richard is the design wiz. He is the mastermind behind the "WOW" effect of Diveboard.

Special thanks to all of you who helped us debug, test, think out Diveboard and who responded to our enthusiasm or .
Stéphanie, Steve, Bruno, Sara, Jean-Michel, Arthur, Franck, Alexis, Luke, Calou, Bertrand, Sam, Christopher, Dick, Brook, Edward, Kyle...

Special thanks to Christopher, creator of Scubamap, who was kind enough to share with us its database of about 1000 dive spots mostly located in both north and south America. We appreciate your support!

Also many thanks to David, http://www.davidrosswebdesign.com/, who gave a hand for porting the plugin code to Linux.

It all began with a frustrated computer geek.
Alex had a Mares M2 dive computer and a (cheap) Digital Camera with an underwater housing. Nothing uncommon yet. But It was incredibly painful to do anything useful with the dive profiles on his computer. They were ending up as printed pdfs in a long-forgotten folder and were too ugly to post on Flickr. The pictures were a mess too. And Alex's handwriting was so poor that he really had trouble reading what was written down in his paper logbook.
From all this frustration shared with Pascal and Richard we got to building Diveboard. We started it as a side project which grew pretty much to become Alex's main occupation about 18hrs a day (yes he gets easily obsessed).
Diveboard's objective is fairly straightforward: become the place for scuba divers to keep and share their diving memories. Also we want Diveboard to be a place to help scuba divers discover new places, species and fellow divers to make their diving experience even more enjoyable.
While still under the radar - Diveboard opened silently the gates on April 8th after a few months of preparation.

The core features of Diveboard are:

• A computer plugin (PC/Mac) to connect directly your dive computer to Diveboard and upload your dive profile - Currently about 60 models are supported
• Support of UDCF files for dive profiles upload
• Access to an incredible database of over 2 Million species along with their geographical population density through GBIF
• Access to a database of over 2000 dive spots all over the world
• Integration with Facebook and Twitter's share features
• Integration with Flickr and Facebook photo sharing features
• Full HTML5 enabling support for any kind of device (PC/Tablet/Mobile)
• Export of species spotted to GBIF, WoRMS and IOBIS

DAN is a not-for-profit worldwide organization that provides emergency medical advice and assistance for underwater diving injuries, and underwrites a wide range of research, education and training programs that promote safe diving.

GBIF, WoRMS and IOBIS agregate and share biodiversity data and enable users to search species datasets from all of the world.

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