Tides & Conditions LIVE

Dive the slack,
not the schedule.

On a current-swept site, the difference between a great dive and a bad one is thirty minutes of timing. Every dive site page in DeepSix Dive Log carries a conditions planner: pick a day up to a week out and get the tide curve, the slack-water windows, the strongest-current times, and the weather — before you book the boat.

The Planner

Seven days of conditions, one site page.

Tap "Get 7-day forecast" on a site and the planner builds a week of context: a per-day selector with a weekday and weather glyph, the tide curve for the selected day, and a daily outlook — air temperature high and low, wind with gusts and direction, and precipitation — merged alongside the tides.

It's deliberately fetch-on-demand. Nothing is requested until you ask, so forecasts are fetched for the sites you're actually planning, not for every page you scroll past.

Tide curve The full rise and fall for your chosen day
Slack windows When the current goes quiet — your entry windows
Peak current Strongest-flow times, for drift dives or for staying home
7-day selector A day picker with weekday + weather glyph per day
Weather outlook Air temp hi/lo, wind speed, gusts & direction, precipitation
On demand Nothing is fetched until you ask — you control the requests
Drift Timing

The curve is data. The windows are the answer.

A tide chart tells you when the water is high. What a diver needs to know is when it's moving. DeepSix does the reading for you: it finds the slack-water windows around each turn of the tide — the calm you want for a wall, a wreck penetration, or a nervous buddy — and the peak-flow times you want for a screaming drift, or want to avoid entirely.

Slack and peak times are listed alongside the curve, so "let's splash at 9:40, not 10:30" is a decision you can make from your phone the night before.

Data Sources

A free estimate for everyone. An accurate one when it counts.

The planner draws on two providers, and is honest about the difference.

Open-Meteo
Free, for everyone, always
Model-derived sea-level estimates plus the full daily weather outlook. No account, no key, no cost — the baseline every DeepSix user gets on every site, forever.
WorldTides
The accuracy upgrade
Station-grade tidal predictions from WorldTides — the numbers you want when the site is a channel and the slack window is twenty minutes wide.

Attribution in-app: Tides © WorldTides — Weather via Open-Meteo.

Who Pays, and How

Free by default. Fair when it counts.

The station-grade WorldTides forecast has a real per-call cost that somebody pays, so it settles into three honest paths:

Open-Meteo estimates — free, always

The planner never goes dark. Every user keeps the free tide estimate and weather outlook on every site, no strings.

Bring your own WorldTides key

Add your own key and the app talks directly to WorldTides — you're billed by them, at their rates, with no DeepSix middleman and no markup.

Included with a Patron purchase

Support DeepSix with a Patron purchase and high-accuracy tides come included as a thank-you, served through the DeepSix tide relay — no key, no separate account.

If that structure sounds unusually un-greedy, that's on purpose — the reasoning is written up on our pricing philosophy page.

Under the Hood

The billing key never touches your phone.

Patron-path requests go through the DeepSix tide relay, which holds the WorldTides billing key server-side — it never ships inside the app, where any curious tester could extract it. The relay also caches by site and date at the edge, so when two divers plan the same site for the same day, WorldTides is paid once, not twice.

BYOK requests deliberately skip the relay and go straight to worldtides.info, so your usage is billed to you and only you. What the relay sees and stores is spelled out in our privacy policy.

Summary
✓ Tide forecast on every dive site page — pick any future date
✓ Full 7-day conditions planner: tides + daily weather outlook
✓ Slack-water and peak-current windows computed for you
✓ Free tide estimates for everyone, always, via Open-Meteo
✓ WorldTides high-accuracy upgrade — your own key, or included with a Patron purchase
✓ Fetch-on-demand: a forecast is only requested when you ask
✓ Bring-your-own-key requests go straight to WorldTides — billed to you, no DeepSix middleman
✓ The DeepSix tide relay keeps the billing key server-side, never on your device
✓ Relay edge-caches by site & date — shared sites cost one call, not one per diver

When's slack water on Saturday?

Open any site in DeepSix and ask. The free estimate is on every site; the station-grade forecast is your own key or a Patron purchase away.

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