ScubaBoard

Introduction

ScubaBoard is the grand-daddy of scuba forums being 7 years old and having over 80,000 registered users. You can buy ScubaBoard tshirts and other merchandise and find private forums for professionals, solo divers and diving businesses.

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What can it do for you ?

ScubaBoard has forums on anything you can think of about diving with thousands of posts in most of them.

• basic and newbie divers

• technical diving

• Accidents and passings

• snorkelling and free diving

• equipment – every type of kit and manufacturer you can think of

• regional travel – forums about all the world

• trips and special offers

There are also private forums for instructors, dive businesses and solo diving.

Gallery

You may upload and share your photos up to 100Mb and you can comment on other divers photos.

Merchandise

You may purchase tshirts, mugs and other goodies with the ScubaBoard logo.

Sponsorship

ScubaBoard is run by volunteers and makes money only from advertising. You can choose to sponsor ScubaBoard for a few dollars and gain recognition against your user name.

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Is it easy to use ?

Yes. VBulletin has simple navigation through forums, sub forums and threads.

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Does it travel ?

You should have no trouble logging in and using the site even from an ancient computer.

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Is your personal information secure ?

The privacy policy states that they always offer opt out options for any data gathering. Its not clear who owns copyright of your images in the photo gallery.

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What do you agree to ?

You agree that while you may discuss a wide variety of topics, politics, nationalities and anything about sex are off limits. Your posts must be acceptable as if in a work place. You may not mine member information for commercial use and you must be over 13 years of age.

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Users

At the time of writing approx 80,000 users.

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Editor's opinion

This is the English language forum with the most members and by far the most threads and posts. Chances are if you want the answer to a question then it has already been discussed or someone online will be able to answer it for you. Of course the focus is on the USA and Caribbean and Mexico diving but there is still reasonable discussion about other parts of the world. Most folk are friendly but bun fights regularly ensue from “agency bashing” and discussions of training standards. Stay away from those subjects and you will have a great time.

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