About DiveCodex

DiveCodex is the dive site reference I wished existed.

When I started diving on the Costa Brava, I found myself jumping between forums, outdated blogs, and dive centre websites just to figure out the basics: what’s the depth at a site, what will I see, can I get there from shore, and is it worth the trip? The information was out there, but scattered and often contradictory.

So I started building the resource I wanted. One that puts real conditions, marine life, and practical logistics front and centre. One that treats every dive site as something worth documenting properly, not just a pin on a map.

Diving is my passion. I love being underwater, learning what lives there, and understanding how it all connects. My bookshelf at home is mostly marine life guides and diving books — they’ve slowly taken over. After every dive I tend to document everything: notes, photos, video, species IDs — sometimes probably too extensively. I’ve come to think the best dives might be the ones where I leave the cameras at home and just look. But the instinct to record and share what I see is what led me to build DiveCodex in the first place.

I’m starting this project on my own, but the vision is bigger than one diver — I want to build a place where others who share this same curiosity can contribute what they’ve learned and seen, too.