DivePurpose exists to make impact diving obvious, accessible and honest.
Helping divers put their skills to good use — and helping the people restoring our oceans stay visible, funded, and supported.
I built DivePurpose for a simple reason: most divers want to help the ocean, but they don't always know where to start.
At the same time, many dive centers are doing real conservation work every day — and hardly anyone knows about them.
DivePurpose connects those two worlds.
What We Do
We help divers choose dive centers where every dive supports something bigger.
Sometimes that means joining a coral nursery session or a reef clean-up. Sometimes it simply means diving with a purpose-driven operator — because where you dive is a vote.
When divers choose centers doing restoration, monitoring, education and community projects, those centers survive. They grow. They hire more locals. They keep restoring reefs, removing nets, maintaining nurseries and training the next generation of ocean stewards.
That choice alone already makes a difference.
How We Do It
DivePurpose is still early, but the approach is clear:
- We research operators who are genuinely doing conservation work — not greenwashing.
- We document their efforts: coral nurseries, artificial reefs, turtle monitoring, species IDs, cleanups, community projects.
- We highlight the experience divers actually get: seeing restoration sites underwater, feeling the contrast between healthy nurseries and damaged areas, learning what's happening behind the scenes.
- We acknowledge impact honestly: not every action is measurable, not every program has clean data… but it still matters. Ghost net removals, mooring line replacements, daily trash collect rounds — these things rarely get headlines, but they protect entire ecosystems.
Our goal isn't perfection. It's awareness, transparency, and helping divers make informed choices that directly support good work.
Why It Matters
Diving is unique: every diver already has the skill, comfort, mindset and access to be useful in the water.
You don't need to be a scientist. You don't need to quit your job. You don't need to plant a thousand corals on week one.
You just need to dive in places where your presence helps the people doing the work. And when you do want to get involved, we show you how — whether it's monitoring, nurseries, surveys, cleanups or community projects.
DivePurpose exists to make that path clear, trusted and accessible.
Where We're Going
We're building a global home for purpose-driven diving — a platform that:
- expands awareness of ocean realities to the entire diving community
- empowers divers to contribute meaningfully, on any skill level
- supports conservation-focused operators so they can keep doing the work that actually moves the needle
- creates a culture where impact becomes part of the dive experience, not an afterthought
This is just the beginning, but the direction is set: more awareness, more action, more purpose — one dive at a time.
Ready to dive with purpose?
Explore our directory of verified conservation dive centers and find your next meaningful dive.