Scububble was the online dive spot database DreamDives ran alongside the SharkPoint logbook. It was free to use, and its purpose was to let a diver's own logbook draw on dive site information contributed by other SharkPoint users — and contribute theirs back.
In the site's own words, a SharkPoint logbook database could connect directly to the free-to-use DreamDives databases, including the Scububble dive spot database, in order to use information from other SharkPoint users and exchange your own. It appeared in the product range as "Scububble dive spot search", and the SharkPoint user forum was linked from it.
The problem it was trying to solve
Dive site records are the part of a logbook that most obviously wants to be shared. A buddy list is personal and an air consumption figure is meaningless to anyone else, but a site record — where the entry is, what depth it runs to, what the tide does, where the interesting part of the reef actually is — is the same information for every diver who goes there, and every one of them was typing it in separately.
Scububble was the reasonable response: keep the site records in one shared place, let logbooks pull from it, and let divers who had been somewhere put back what they learned. It sat naturally alongside SharkPoint's GPS site tagging, since co-ordinates are exactly the kind of hard-won detail worth pooling.
Where it sat in the range
Scububble was not a separate product a diver bought. It was infrastructure — a free service that made the logbook more useful, listed on the products page among the software rather than beside it. The design intent was that a dive site in your logbook and a dive site in the shared database were the same kind of record, so drawing one down or pushing one up did not require re-keying.
An idea that arrived early
What Scububble was reaching for is now completely ordinary. Shared, community-maintained dive site databases with co-ordinates, depth ranges, access notes and conditions are a standard feature of current dive logging platforms, and most divers would expect one.
Attempting it in the mid-2000s meant doing it from a desktop application talking to a server, for users whose handhelds mostly had no connectivity at all and who synchronised by putting a device in a cradle. The idea was sound; the plumbing available to implement it was not yet.
Status
The service is no longer running. DreamDives stopped publishing after 2009 and the domains associated with Scububble no longer serve. This page is kept as a record of what the service was and how it related to the logbook.
For dive site information today, current community dive-site databases and local dive operations are the practical sources — and for conditions and safety, the Divers Alert Network remains the standing reference. Site records in an old logbook should be treated as a historical note rather than current information: access, depths, hazards and marine protection rules all change.