ScubaMagazine Corporate Mission Statement

[The Publisher]

Ask not what ScubaMagazine.net can do for you, but what you can do for the SMn Community.

Hey, sounds like a twist off a John F. Kennedy quote!

Joking aside, we think a PHP script based software board is the best way to go. We're certainly not going to spend several hundred thousand dollars to reinvent the wheel and turn around and offer a free board. We're familiar with the other boards and the different software used, and the one we chose is the most stable, well supported, most prolifically modified, and could allow us to offer the most to the dive community.

We obviously took a look at all the other boards. Some have a few single features that are unique, so we took a look at what other forums had individually and collectively grouped them all together into one forum. Nobody to our knowledge has the collection of features we have.

We're being copied left and right, so we must be doing something right, and all the defamation and hacking attempts by administrators and moderators of other boards was all expected and part of the plan that worked to our advantage.

The only people that want to seem to know exactly who are the administrators, founders and mods are our detractors looking to dig up dirt, so we ignore such requests as we see them for what they are.

But for those without such intentions, we're just some tech and recreational divers that came from another board where we have a flair for writing and an unquenchable thirst for dive adventure and we just want to share our enthusiasm with others on the same journey.

When we start doing tropical group trips, you can all join us for the fun and see who we all are in person-just a bunch of regular divers.

We're not out to dominate scuba forums, be the king of the hill, make a truckload of $, rub competitors nose in anything, or partake in their drama, we're just out to have a good time, experience and share natural beauty most non-divers can't even dream of, and make friends along our journey, and that is what we think diving is all about.

I did not originally own this forum, it was owned by another entity that was purchased, and they had us sign a non-disclosure agreement upon ownership transfer.

[the0nlinediver]

The only people that want to seem to know exactly who are the administrators, founders and mods are our detractors looking to dig up dirt, so we ignore such requests as we see them for what they are.

Sounds like you guys have had some bad times on other SCUBA related bulletin boards and you do not want to admit your true identities because of some of the immature people in our diving business who make life unpleasant. I can dig that.

I'm certainly not a detractor or looking to dig up dirt but I am an interested party in making sure that divers get a good and not a raw deal online. That has a lot to do with how you describe yourselves and what services you provide. I don't give a hoot whether you pay for your software or not, but I do worry if you mislead your potential community about what it is.

Your domain name is scubamagazine.net. Now 'scuse me for being colloquial but a magazine is full of editorial articles, photos, information and has just a few pages of user content in the form of feedback. Thats not what we find on scubamagazine.net. iDiveChick/Sarah is out there marketing unique features but I don't see any. I see just another forum, with the added unfriendliness of having to create an account after viewing 4 or 5 posts - what is that all about?

There must be 3 figures of forums for divers in English, possibly 4 figures. Why create another?