Couple of questions regarding Dive Sites

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Andrew Goldby

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Jun 22, 2026, 9:42:50 AM (2 days ago) Jun 22

to 'Robert C. Helling' via Subsurface Divelog

Hi Guys

I tried to put a little more info into my divests last weekend with a couple of unforeseen issues.

I exported my dive list from subsurface (Mac) and then merged some notes from other sources into the XML file.

After this I re-imported the list back into Subsurface.

The import was successful and now showed the additional information in the notes field as expected. However I had hoped that it would automatically merge the dives into the old ones since they were identical other than the additional field and it showed them on the sport screen as the ‘closest site’ 0m away. It didn't ... but I thought that would be easy to overcome in the divesite manager. Since all the duplicates had the same GPS coordinates I was able to merge the two sets of sites together (a pair at a time) but that then resulted in all my old dives now being associated with no dive site. To be honest I cant remember whether I merged the new site into the old one or visa versa but the names were the same and I assumed a merge would maintain the link between dive site and dive. Would it make a difference which way round it went?

Has anyone else experienced this and how can I prevent it happening in future?

(As it happened I had my log on the android device and was able to disable data in order to see the full (local) history dive list then manually allocated the relevant divests to each dive on the Mac (cloud based version) but there must be an easier way - I now take regular backups)

As an aside though … having added all this data to the Divesite notes field I then found that there was no way to view this on the android App - which is why I was putting the data in since people tend to ask have you dives X and it would be nice to not only say yes but to give some info about the site (not necessarily just what you saw). Am I missing something? Is there a way to view the dive site info (coordinates, description, notes) on the android App?

Many thanks in advance

Best Regards

Andy Goldby

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