If you're like me, I've gone through a couple of different phases of dive logging. Before the advent of computers we just logged everything on paper or a book, but now we have computers a lot of which have the capability to upload your dives data to your computer to view your profile as well as a ton of other great information. But as I've upgraded computers, I've struggled to keep an effective electronic log that meets all my needs to include an area to add comments, pictures, maps, etc.

Well my friends I've found a great solution which I'm happy to share with you all. It's Diving Log 4.0 at http://www.divinglog.de/english/home/index.php which offers a PC and Mobile version. What's best is that you can download a trial version (Try it before you buy it) which offers you nearly all the features of the full version but for only 10 dives. Then if you like it as much as I did you can buy it via PAYPAL or Share*it! (Visa/Mastercard). For a limited time the West Florida Dive Club is going to get a 25% discount on the purchase price of  EUR 28 for the PC Version and EUR 12 for the Pocket PC version. I also have to tell you that although this is a product from Europe (Germany), the support is second to none! Check it out, you'll be happy you did.

When they use PayPal you don't have to do anything special, if they want to use the ShareIt provider (credit card) they must enter the coupon code "westfloridadiveclub" (without quotes) at the bottom of the 2nd page to get the 25% off. The ShareIt discount ends currently on May 31.

 

http://www.divinglog.de/english/order/index_25off.php

 

 

Here are some details from the web page:

 

 

Diving Log 4.0 is the perfect scuba logbook solution to manage your dives. You can import your dive log data from almost every dive computer, either by importing from the manufacturer software or by direct download from the dive computer. All data can be exported to several formats, synchronized to a Windows Mobile based PDA or uploaded into the web for online presentation. Create your own logbook printouts with the powerful integrated report designer and share your logbook design with other users. With the numerous statistics and charts you can analyze your dive data and with the powerful search and group engine in the free Diving Log Viewer you will find every dive you want. In addition to your dives you can organize your equipment, buddies, photos and dive sites. Share your dive site experiences with other divers at the community site dilogs.com and visit dive sites in Google Earth prior to your vacation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diving Log has a modern, clear design and still offers plenty of features.   In the logbook window you can view and edit your dives, attach photos and view the dive profiles. Besides the standard fields you have 10 user defined fields for your data. You can add text formattings to your comments and select the dive equipment which you have used at this dive.   You can import or direct download your dive data from more than 100 dive computers directly into Diving Log. You can use all import functions so there will be no further costs if you buy a new dive computer. All currently supported dive computers >>> Dive computer interface shops >>>   Diving Log can export to several file formats to use your data in other programs. The following formats were currently supported: PDF, Html, Excel, CSV, Google Earth, UDCF, UDDF, MySQL Dump, DAN DL7   Manage your photos with Diving Log and attach them to your dives in your logbook. With the Photo Manager changes can be done very easily and with the free Diving Log Viewer you can view your photos with thumbnail preview and exif data display.   Create your own logbook printouts with the integrated report designer or download ready to use designs from other Diving Log users. This way you can print your dives to custom logbook pages and add them to your logbook binder. The report designer supports numerous formattings and calculations.   Diving Log has many statistics and charts which provides comprehensive analyses of your dive data. With the group function in the Diving Log Viewer application you can group your logbook data by any information, e.g. by country, dive site and weather or any other combinations.   With the search tool included in Diving Log you can search for any string search terms (e.g. buddy or dive site name). You can find a more advanced instant search tool in the Diving Log Viewer which enables numeric search and more. You can search for example for dives deeper than 30m or at a specific temperature.   The Diving Log Viewer is a seperate, free tool to display Diving Log logbook files. It must not be installed and can be started from a USB flash drive and freely distributed. The viewer is build using the WPF technology and has many features which are currently not available in Diving Log.   Diving Log for Windows Mobile runs on PDA's can can be synchronized with the desktop version. So you have your logbook data also present when travelling.   Dilogs.com is an online community for scuba divers. You'll get an online logbook, dive site maps based on Google Maps and Google Earth, and more. Diving Log has a special desktop client application which can access the dilogs database. So you can upload your dive data very easily into your online logbook and search the dive site database and download dive site data into your own logbook. Read more ...   Divelogs.de is a website where you can register a free online logbook. You can export your dives from Diving Log into the UDCF format and upload them to divelogs.de. Your online logbook can be private or public and included via iframe into your own website.   phpDivingLog is a PHP and MySQL based open source online logbook which is developed by several Diving Log users. You can upload your dives either by a SQL dump file or via direct connection to the MySQL server into the internet. A webserver with PHP and MySQL is required.