Temperature data from a public dive log application, acquired from recreational divers’ dive computers in the northern Red Sea (2000-2017)
A collection of raw dive computer data (latitude, longitude, date, time, minimum temperature, surface temperature and maximum depth) logged by unknown recreational divers and uploaded to a publicly available online dive logging application (divelogs.de) was exported and filtered for further analysis. The data were spatially restricted to the northern Red Sea: 23-30° N, 32-39.4° E. Only dives within standard recreational depths (maximum dive depth ≤ 40 m), years with more than 75 dives per year and with a spread of dives across most months were retained (2000 to 2017). The data were processed in R version 4.2, using the tidyverse suite of packages. A 15 arc-second (approximately 0.5 km) resolution bathymetric grid of the area was downloaded from GEBCO, allowing bathymetric depths associated with each dive location to be found using the marmap get.depth function in R. Data were collected as part of Celia Marlowe’s PhD project at the University of East Anglia, which aimed to assess the precision and accuracy of water temperature profiles collected from devices commonly carried by Scuba divers. The PhD project was part of the Next Generation Unmanned Systems Science (NEXUSS) Centre for Doctoral Training, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (NE/N012070/1), and was additionally supported by Cefas Seedcorn (DP901D).
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- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_Marlowe_082022
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-08-10
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-09-02
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7232
Owner
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
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Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
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Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
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Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
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Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
- SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
- Data are freely available
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Location
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- Geographic identifier
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Red Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-11
- Begin date
- 2000-09-12
- End date
- 2017-08-10
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
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Delimited
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- OnLine resource
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Published dataset - doi:10.5285/e5e5c4c7-af59-25df-e053-17d1a68b7f87
Marlowe C.; Hyder K.; Sayer M.D.J.; Kaiser J.(2022). Temperature data from a public dive log application, acquired from recreational divers' dive computers in the northern Red Sea (2000-2017). NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC. doi:10.5285/e5e5c4c7-af59-25df-e053-17d1a68b7f87
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
- This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term storage and data publication via DOI.Instrument(s) used to collect data: data loggers; water body temperature sensor.
- File identifier
- 3cfb2b90a442527599201a1fe05fd90f XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-11T14:31:05
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.2
Point of contact
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Polly Hadžiabdić
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Head of the BODC Requests Team
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Joseph Proudman Building
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6 Brownlow Street
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Liverpool
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Merseyside
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L3 5DA
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United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available
NERC Data Catalogue Service