Good and Bad

The good: has not actually made my iPhone burst into flames, causing the boat’s fuel tanks to explode and sending us to our doom while contaminating the beautiful waters of Cozumel’s Marine Park with boat debris and our bloated corpses.

The bad: pretty much everything else.

As others have noted, the app will let you “select” Metric or Imperial measurements, but won’t actually change to Imperial. It doesn’t seem to care which is set in ones profile online, either.

It’s slow. It’s clumsy. There’s a “FAQ” section, but it’s completely blank. I suspect there actually are some Terms of Service, but that’s blank, as well. Same goes for the privacy policy, except there’s no particular reason for me to assume there really is one or that anything from the app is private.

The website has a slightly useful Gear Locker feature, but this does not sync to the app. What’s more useful out in an area with no data: information about gear on my phone, or on some website somewhere? That’s what I thought.

There are standard formats for dive logs (such as DAN’s .zxu and others) but there appears to be no way to import logs into ScubaEarth or export them from or to anything else, either via the app or online. That means that a great opportunity to combine profile logging by ones dive computer with location and note logging by an iPhone app has been utterly squandered.

It’s pretty clear this was released with no testing at all. There probably was some sort of thought process, but it may well have been limited to “we should have an app!”

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