About Us
Born in the Nitrogen.
Built in the Cloud.
We're divers who got tired of asking the question nobody answers: "Is this dive center actually safe?"
ScubaProof is our attempt to fill that gap with structured data, transparent methodology, and zero financial conflicts of interest.
The Problem
Star ratings reward cafeteria food, not safety
A center with broken regulators can have a 4.8-star rating if their boat is clean and staff is friendly.
TripAdvisor and Google Maps reward sentiment. Neither tracks oxygen availability, instructor ratios, or briefing quality.
Dive aggregators that exist today are optimized for affiliate commission — not for the question you ask yourself before every dive.
The Team
Who built this
Alexey Balakhanov
PADI Advanced Open Water DiverCo-founderSoftware engineer and active diver with experience across Thailand, Indonesia, and the Red Sea. Built ScubaProof after one too many briefings that skipped emergency procedures. Focuses on backend architecture, data pipelines, and the Trust Score algorithm.
AI Scout Pipeline
A Gemini-powered extraction engine that reads diver-written reviews and identifies safety signals — gear condition, briefing quality, instructor ratios. Strictly extractive: it never invents or infers. Every red flag traces back to a real reviewer's words.
The Community
Thousands of divers whose honest Google reviews — about gear condition, depth ratios, and briefing quality — form the raw signal that no marketing budget can drown out. Their words are the foundation of every score on this platform.
Independence
No ranking can be purchased or influenced.
ScubaProof does not accept payments, sponsorships, or promotional arrangements from dive centers or dive agencies. No operator can request removal of a red flag, adjust their score, or purchase prominent placement. The algorithm runs on the same rules for every center in the database.
DAN-Aligned
Safety weights
No Sponsorships
Pure rankings
Open Methodology
Fully public
Questions or corrections? Reach us at [email protected]