Who Is DiveData 2000 For?
Dive Data 2000 is aimed at people who run scuba clubs, in particular branches of the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) and Sub Aqua Association (SAA). Different Branch Officers need to record different types of information, but Dive Data 2000 stores all of this information and more. See below for more details of the ways that Dive Data 2000 can be used by Branch Officers.
Individuals also use Dive Data 2000 to store information such as Dive Logs and Equipment Lists. There are other personal dive log programs on the market, but most of these are aimed at PADI trained divers. Dive Data may suit you if you want to record your training as well as your dive logs.
Membership Secretaries
Divers with BSAC and SAA branches have two memberships to track: their membership of
the national agency and
their membership of their local branch. Each month BSAC sends the membership secretary a
printout of the memberships due for renewal and the membership secretary has to pass these
forms on to each member, Dive Data 2000 automatically tracks renewal dates of the branch and
BSAC membership, and prints personalised renewal letters for each member, along with address labels. This saves membership secretaries a huge amount of time every month.
BSAC and SAA also require that each member has a valid medical certificate, so Dive Data 2000 tracks dates of last medical and the age of each diver and calculates when the next medical is due. Again, reminder letters and address labels can be printed.
Membership and other subscriptions are fully configurable so you can add any specialised subscriptions offered by your club.
Address lists for the entire branch can be printed and distributed to each member so that they always have up to date contact details.
Training Officers
Dive Data 2000 knows all about the majority of Scuba Certifying
Agencies training schemes. With comprehensive details of BSAC, CMAS, DAN, HSA,
IANTD, NAUI, PADI, RYA, SAA, SSAC, SSI and TDI training courses it is easy to
record diving qualifications even when an individual has trained with many
agencies.
You can store comprehensive training records for every diver in the database; when they completed a particular lesson, who the instructor was and any additional comments.
These details can be entered for each diver at a time, or as a group by picking the divers who attended a lesson from a list. This works particularly well for lectures; Dive Data 2000 will show a list of all club members eligible to attend a particular lecture, and you select the ones who turned up. Enter the date the lecture was held, and select the instructor and Dive Data 2000 will automatically create a training record entry for each diver you selected.
You can print a register of members who need to complete a particular lesson. This makes a useful "signing in sheet" for lectures ... letting the instructor know who to expect and recording who actually attended.
Diving Officers
Dive Data 2000 can store comprehensive information about each dive anyone in the club
undertakes. Individuals can enter details of the location, buddy and dive marshall, and
boat used by selecting from drop down lists so once you have initially recorded this
information there is no requirement to retype it each time you do a dive using the same
details.
You can also store information about air consumption, equipment, weather, enter depth:time profiles from your dive computer, and as many notes as you care to type. Dive Log pages can be printed, cut to size, and stored in "Time Manager" six hole binders (filofax pages were just too small!) You can also enter details of up to five nitrox, trimix or heliox mixes.
Summary dive log information can be entered for groups of divers in a two step process where the Dive Marshall or D.O. first selects all of the divers in the party and then enters details of each dive they undertook. This creates a Dive Log entry for each diver, and also allows the D.O. to print a report of everyone's dives during a given time interval. This is a very quick method of tracking who is doing what diving.
Equipment Officers
I'm sure you don't need to be told that diving equipment is expensive! Also your life depends on it, so it is essential to keep it properly maintained and serviced.
Dive Data 2000 lets you record the equipment owned by each diver who has an entry in the database. The kind of information that can be stored includes
- What the item is
- When and where you bought it
- What it cost, and what it is worth now
- Service interval and service history
- Who you lent it to, and when it is due back
- Manufacturer contact details