Guide
How to import your Shearwater dives to your iPhone over Bluetooth
A step-by-step look at syncing a Shearwater dive computer with GoDrift, without a cloud account.
GoDrift reads your dives straight from a Shearwater dive computer over Bluetooth and saves them on your iPhone. It has been tested with the Shearwater Peregrine. The same Bluetooth protocol is used across Shearwater's range, but other models have not been tested yet.
Before you start
- Install GoDrift and allow Bluetooth when asked.
- Put your dive computer in its Bluetooth log-transfer mode, as described in your computer's manual. The computer only talks to the phone while it is in that mode.
- Keep the iPhone awake and close to the computer. The first sync of a long history can take a few minutes.
Steps
- Open GoDrift and tap Sync.
- Choose your dive computer from the list. GoDrift remembers it, so next time one tap is enough.
- GoDrift sets the computer's clock, reads the list of dives and downloads each one.
- Review the new dives. Dives you already have are completed, never duplicated.
- Import them into your logbook and add site, buddies, gear and photos.
Good to know
- Only dives still stored on the computer can be imported. A dive computer has finite memory and drops its oldest dives as it fills, so a history kept only in an app may be longer than what the computer still holds.
- If the connection drops, GoDrift reconnects and resumes. Dives already downloaded are kept, so a second try never starts over.
- Nothing leaves your phone. The transfer is direct between the computer and your iPhone. There is no GoDrift server and no account.
- No computer? No problem. You can log dives by hand, or import an Excel file or a PADI logbook export.
GoDrift is not affiliated with Shearwater Research. Shearwater and Peregrine are trademarks of their owner.
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