What was that? Identify your marine life
The best dive stories start with “and then this thing appeared”. iNaturalist puts a name to the thing: upload a photo, its image recognition suggests a species, and a worldwide community of naturalists confirms it.
Shoot first, identify later: any reasonably sharp photo works, even from an action camera. Upload after the dive with the site's location, and suggestions arrive in seconds — confirmations from specialists often within days.
Confirmed observations feed the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which researchers use to track species ranges — dive observations are genuinely useful data, especially for invasive species like lionfish spreading through the Mediterranean.
Identification beats guesswork for safety too — see our Dangerous sea life guide for the species that punish curiosity. iNaturalist tells you what it was; the golden rule stays: look, don't touch.
Your Diving Scanner dive log records every trip you book with us automatically — pair it with your iNaturalist observations and each entry keeps both the dive and what it discovered.
iNaturalist is an independent non-profit initiative (California Academy of Sciences & National Geographic); we link it because it’s excellent, with no affiliation.