Downloading your logbook

Your dives download as a CSV from the Divemates website, not from the app. Here's where it is.

Downloading your logbook happens on the Divemates website, not in the app, so if you've been hunting through Settings on your phone, that's why it isn't there. Sign in at divemates.app with the same account and go to divemates.app → Dashboard → My Diving → Dives.

The export control is the small download icon at the right of the row above the table, next to Columns. It has no caption, just the downward arrow, and it opens a dialog called Export dives.

The file is named divemates-dives followed by today's date, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

Choosing your columns

The dialog lists every column in one order, each with a checkbox and a pair of arrows. Check the ones you want, and move rows up or down to set the order they appear in the file. Then hit Download CSV.

You start with: date and time, site, country, max depth, duration in seconds, entry and gas.

You can also add: site code, city, country code, the UTC date and time, the UTC offset, duration in minutes, and air consumption (SAC).

What you picked is remembered in that browser, so the next export comes out the same shape without setting it up again.

Note: the air consumption cell is empty on any dive that doesn't have a figure we trust. See "Why is there no air consumption?"

Exporting only some of your dives

The file contains exactly the dives on screen, in the order you've sorted them. So filtering the table is how you export a subset: search by site, country or site code, or pick a date range, and then download.

That's the quick way to hand someone one trip's dives rather than your whole logbook.

Measurements are always metric

Depths come out in meters, air consumption in liters per minute, no matter which units you've set in the app. Each column header names its unit, because a spreadsheet whose numbers depend on a setting you can't see inside it is a trap.

What's deliberately left out

The export is your dives and nothing else: when, where, how deep, how long, what you breathed. It doesn't include site coordinates, and it doesn't include your buddies, divemaster, dive shop or the species you saw.

Your logbook is yours. A file you email to a shop or drop in a spreadsheet shouldn't be a dossier on everyone you dived with.

CSV is the only format today. If you need something else, tell us what you're feeding it into and we'll take a look.