August 10, 2026

Dive Together Community Platform

Work in progress This project is actively being built. If there are links use at your own risk. This page might also be out of date.

Freedivers are hard to find. There's no directory — the community lives in Instagram DMs and WhatsApp groups. Dive Together is a map and directory of freedivers and the schools they train at, so you can see who's near you or near where you're going.

People - Freedivers, spearfishers, athletes, instructors, photographers, researchers, captains. Filter by skill, certification agency, or country
Schools - 560 freediving schools worldwide, each claimable by whoever runs it
The map - People, schools, and events on one clustered view you can zoom into
Events - Comps, camps, and courses, with dates and locations

The Dive Together world map, showing clustered pins for people, schools, and events across every continent — 560 schools and 163 members across 71 countries, clustered on one map

Profiles show city and country only. Street addresses aren't collected, map pins sit at city-level coordinates, and email is never public — you get in touch through the links someone chose to publish. There's no messaging built in; the community already has DMs.

The Dive Together people directory, showing member cards with photos, skills, and locations, above filters for skill and certification agency — The directory, filterable by skill and by certification agency

Certifications are self-reported across the ten agencies people actually train with — AIDA, Molchanovs, SSI, PADI Freediving, Apnea Total and the rest. Nothing is verified.

The Dive Together schools directory, showing school cards with cover photos, names, and locations, above filters for the agencies each school teaches — Schools, filtered by the agencies they teach — seeded so the map wasn't empty at launch

The schools were seeded before launch — scraped, cleaned, and deduplicated — so the map wasn't empty on day one. Each one is claimable by its owner and approved by hand.

The idea started in 2019 as Freediving Family and got as far as a logo and a Webflow site before stalling for five years. Building it properly meant auth, geo queries, user-generated content, and moderation. In 2026 I picked it up again and built it with Claude: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase and Postgres with row-level security enforcing the privacy rules, MapLibre over OpenFreeMap tiles.

It's live and in beta at divetogether.co.