Just Gotta Dive (JGD) was founded in direct response to conversations with scuba diving enthusiasts who expressed frustration with the lack of a comprehensive dive portal. Our goal is to address this desire and to provide the necessary resources and tools scuba divers need to discover, explore, promote, and protect our fascinating underwater world. We are a niche diving community that provides scuba divers with a convenient one-stop scuba diving portal and social network that empowers them to interact with fellow divers from all around the world to share their knowledge, ideas and experiences. Just Gotta Dive strives to fill the information gap by educating and updating members of our community on the latest trends, news, and opportunities affecting the dive industry.
Our Team
The Just Gotta Dive Team has more than 35 years of combined dive and travel experience and all team members are certified scuba divers. We are passionate about scuba diving and are committed to sharing the marvel, majesty, and pure exhilaration of underwater exploration with our families, friends, and other members of the dive community.
Our Technology
Just Gotta Dive incorporates many industry-leading web technologies and embraces and leverages Open Source. Our engineering team utilizes PHP, MySQL, HTML, and Javascript. We realize that occasional bugs may arise as a result of our innovation and state-of-the-art-technology. Therefore, we encourage our members to contact us and provide feedback regarding any issues or concerns so that we can address them in an efficient and timely manner.
Individual Member Benefits
Just Gotta Dive offers its members the ability to setup and maintain individual profiles, meet and interact with fellow divers, create a new dive group or join an existing group of divers with similar interests, participate in local area dive clubs, and locate and connect with dive businesses worldwide.
Additionally, Just Gotta Dive provides members with the ability to discuss and plan future dive vacations using our travel forums, in-depth travel guides, dive sites directory, dive travel articles, and online travel tools. For those members that wish to share their dive experiences with family, friends, and other members of the dive community, Just Gotta Dive enables them to do just that by creating travel blogs, furnishing dive logs, uploading photos and videos, submitting reviews, and posting travel tips in our scuba diving forums.
Just Gotta Dive is an advocate for SCUBA diving education, safety, and marine conservation and, as a result, we provide our members with an open platform of information and collaboration through our online community and social network so that all members can expand their existing knowledge and skills and share their expertise while remaining informed about any changes in the dive industry regarding training, gear, safety, accidents, medicine, and conservation.
Dive Business Benefits
Just Gotta Dive provides businesses in the dive and travel industries the opportunity to enjoy all site features offered to individual members as well as highly focused advertising and promotional opportunities that enable them to showcase their products and services using travel packages, liveaboards, dives, training courses, tours, events, contests, and special offers . Dive businesses that choose to advertise with Just Gotta Dive are able to reach members of the dive community that are actively searching for information regarding dive travel and dive-related products and services. These same dive businesses also enjoy stronger relationships with their existing clients and are able to attract new customers while they expand and solidify their position within the dive industry.
We offer several different advertising programs that enable dive businesses to promote themselves which include our dive business directory, marketplace, and sponsorships. Just Gotta Dive has advertising plans to fit every budget enabling businesses to easily control and monitor their advertising costs while achieving an excellent ROI. Please review our advertising programs to learn more about how Just Gotta Dive can help your organization reach its advertising goals and capture your target audience.
Collaboration & Teamwork
At Just Gotta Dive (JGD), we believe that success is not only measured in dollars, but in the value a company brings to other companies, the dive industry, and the world. Just Gotta Dive realizes that we must work together as a team with members of the dive community to be able to make a substantial impact and to be able to contribute to the dive industry on a whole new level. Just Gotta Dive is the “Only Online Divers Travel Network” and we are excited about our online community and social network but we are even more inspired by the collaboration opportunities and the ability to learn, meet new dive buddies, share personal knowledge and experience, and give back to the dive community.
Just Gotta Dive prides itself on a commitment to the highest ethics standards in everything we do. The Just Gotta Dive Team respects and values individual and organizational differences in opinion, philosophy, and beliefs and, as a result, we expect our members and dive businesses to do the same.