Equipment service tracking for dive gear

Gear that keeps you alive deserves a maintenance record. Regulators get overhauled, tanks get their hydro test, rebreather sensors get swapped: every piece of kit has its own rhythm of servicing, and forgetting where each one stands is how you end up on the boat with a cylinder that's out of test. When I opened the Equipment section I promised the Service tab was coming. Today it's here.

Service tracking gives every item in your inventory a full maintenance history and a clear next-service date, so you always know what's been done and what's due. It's more than good housekeeping: as of May 2026, Italy's "Legge del Mare" makes keeping a register of equipment testing and maintenance a legal requirement for diving operators (Legge 7 maggio 2026, n. 70). Whether you're a professional who has to keep the register or a diver who just wants peace of mind, it's the same tab.

The next service date is always in view

The most important thing about a service isn't the one you did last, it's the one you owe next. So the next-service date follows your gear everywhere.

Your equipment list gains a Next Service column. At a glance you can see what's comfortably ahead, what's coming up, and what's slipped: an overdue item turns red and tells you exactly how late it is, right down to the day.

That status carries onto the item itself. Open a piece of gear and the header wears the same badge, next to its category, so an overdue regulator can't hide behind a tidy-looking page.

The Service tab

Every item now has a Service tab. At the top sits the Next service panel: the date the gear is next due, with the same overdue warning if it's slipped past. From here you can Log service to record work that's been done, or Set next service (and later Edit) to schedule when it's due again.

Below the panel runs the history: a timeline of every service the item has ever had, newest first. Each entry records:

• Date — when the service was carried out.
• Provider — who did it, whether a dive shop by name or "Self" for the work you do at home.
• Notes — what was actually done, in your own words: a hydro test, a first-stage overhaul, a sensor swap.
• Cost — what it set you back, in your currency, so the running cost of ownership stays honest.

Logging a service doesn't touch the next-service date on its own; the two are separate on purpose. You might overhaul a regulator today but schedule its next visit a year out, or leave a piece of one-off gear serviced with nothing pending. Use Set next service whenever you want to move the date, and Log service each time work actually gets done.

The distance between services

Here's the part I'm most pleased with. A service date tells you when, but for a lot of gear what really matters is how much diving happened in between. Divebase already knows every dive you've logged, so each service record does the maths for you.

Every entry in the timeline shows two counts: how many dives since the previous service, and how many dives total at the time. Read down the history of a piece of gear and you can see its whole working life, the gaps between services measured in dives, not just months.

On a rebreather that's the difference between "the sensors are two years old" and "the sensors have seen forty dives since I changed them"; on a regulator it's the honest answer to whether it's really due or just old on the calendar. Either way it's your data, finally telling you something useful.

That's service tracking. Go give your gear the logbook it deserves, and, as always, dive safe! 🤿