Diviac is an online booking website for

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holidays. Started as a digital

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for divers, the company focus changed in 2015 to scuba holidays.

Timeline

Diviac was founded in December 2012 in

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by Joel Perrenoud and Thomas Achhorner. The company was officially incorporated in April 2013. In November 2013 the first version of Diviac Logbook was launched. In December 2014 Diviac closed CHF 1 million in a financing round led by the StartAngels Network, a Swiss

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network. In March 2015 Diviac Logbook releases two mobile apps for

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and Android to access the logbook from phones and tablets. In April 2015 the first version of the Diviac Travel

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was launched. In the same month Diviac also acquired Scubadviser.com, a website collecting dive centres and liveaboards reviews. In December 2015 Trekksoft and Diviac announced a partnership to offer a one-stop solution to dive centers for managing their bookings and increase their online distribution. In November 2016, Diviac Eco Travel was introduced. This division of Diviac partners with major

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and

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s to offer eco-friendly holidays to divers and travelers. During these vacations, guests participate alongside marine experts in field studies and research activities. As of December 2016, trips are offered in partnership with the Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation,

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and the Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines. In January 2018, Diviac announced the acquisition of the company by PADI.

Diviac Logbook

Diviac Logbook is a digital logbook that allows divers to keep track of their dives and trips, it serves as proof of dive experience and as a memoir of journeys and trips. Diviac Logbook is one of the few third-party digital logbooks endorsed by

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. In June 2015 Diviac and

Suunto Suunto Oy is a Finnish company that manufactures and markets sports watches, dive computers, compasses and precision instruments. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 300 people worldwide, and its products are sold in over ...

announce a partnership where Suunto users can connect to Diviac through Suunto’s DM5 software and the Movescount sports community, and upload their dives directly to Diviac’s cloud-logbook.{{Cite web, title = Diviac and Suunto announce major partnership Startupticker.ch {{! The Swiss Startup News channel, url = http://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/june-2015/diviac-and-suunto-announce-major-partnership, website = www.startupticker.ch, access-date = 2016-02-08 In January 2016 the training agency

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made Diviac Logbook its official digital logbook and became the first agency to acknowledge digitally validated logs as official proof of diving experience.

Diviac Travel

Diviac Travel is an online booking website specialized in scuba

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. The website allows users to research and book diving and accommodation from

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s, dive resorts and

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s worldwide. It claims to have one of the broadest offering on the market with thousands of destinations and dive operators in the platform.

References

External links

Maui Scuba Diving
Recreational diving Swiss travel websites