Dataset

Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations

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Diveboard is an online scuba diving citizen science platform, where divers can digitize or log their dives, participate in citizen science surveys and projects, and interact with others. More then 10,000 divers have already registered with Diveboard and the community is still growing. This dataset contains all observations made by Diveboarders worldwide (mainly fishes) and are linked to the Encyclopedia of Life. The Diveboard community has dedicated the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver, so these can be used as widely as possible. If you have a specific survey need or question, get in touch: Diveboarders are everywhere and willing to help!

Citation: Diveboard - Scuba diving citizen science observations. Online at http://www.diveboard.com and http://ipt.diveboard.com/resource.do?r=diveboard-occurrences. https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/tnjrgy

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:41

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=diveboard

Diveboard
Diveboard

Dimitri Brosens
Datafable

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

22,628
occurrence records
22,628
measurements and facts
3,148
taxa
2,844
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 22,628
100.0%
scientificNameID 4 5
0.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 5,746
25.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 2,527
11.2%
NOT_MARINE 325
1.4%
ZERO_COORD 105
0.5%
NO_MATCH 9
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 3
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 3
0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data