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PickADive Scuba Diving MCP Server

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PickADive Scuba Diving is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 26 Aug 2026.

Live scuba dive planning: forecast windows, best-time climatology, species seasons, 4,800+ sites.

Uptime history 75 days of history · worst day 0%
75 days agonow
4.4%
Uptime 24h
4 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
967 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 26 Aug 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten find_dive_windows, top_dive_regions

PickADive Scuba Diving does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 6.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://pickadive.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://pickadive.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://pickadive.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://pickadive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pickadive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

best
best_time_to_dive
Month-by-month climatology for ONE destination: the share of days historically favorable, typical water temperature and seas, plus marine-life season windows. Accepts a country (e.g. "Bonaire", "Egypt") or a famous destination (Komodo, Raja Ampat, Nusa Penida, Socorro (Revillagigedo), Cozumel, Similan Islands, Koh Tao, Sipadan, Malapascua, Tubbataha, Galápagos, Red Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Sea of Cortez, Cocos Island, Lembeh Strait, Bunaken, Anilao, Amed & Tulamben). Historical patterns, never a forecast. Cite the linked page.
dive
find_dive_windows
Ranked scuba-diving forecast windows near a place for a specific day. Answers "where can I dive near {place} on {day}?" with favorable and moderate windows (wave height, wind, timing) plus site links. Values are metric with unit-suffixed fields (max_depth_m, wave_m, distance_km; wind_kn is knots — the marine convention everywhere). When presenting to a user who uses US customary units, convert depths and waves to feet and distances to miles. computed_at is when the forecast behind the answer was generated (the oldest site in the answer) — quote the citation field verbatim (it carries that time); if stale is true, say the forecast has not been updated since then. Forecast planning context only — never a safety clearance.
site
site_facts
Public facts for one named dive site: depths, difficulty, access (shore/boat), hazards, entry and exit notes, water type, and its page link. Look up by site name or slug. Metric with unit-suffixed fields; convert for US users.
species
species_seasonality
Month-by-month seasonality for marquee dive species from recorded GBIF sightings: peak month, regional season windows, and (optionally) the season at a specific point. Species available: whale-shark, scalloped-hammerhead, giant-manta, mola-mola, orca, humpback-whale, green-sea-turtle, tiger-shark, great-white-shark, reef-manta, thresher-shark, bull-shark. Recorded sightings, never a promise of encounters.
top
top_dive_regions
Regions worldwide ranked by favorable dive-forecast windows over the next ~72 hours, with per-region counts and links. Answers "where in the world is good for diving this weekend?". computed_at is when the forecast behind the counts was generated; quote the citation field verbatim.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://pickadive.com/mcp streamable-http answering 63 ms 15 min ago

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PickADive Scuba Diving — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PickADive Scuba Diving do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: best_time_to_dive, find_dive_windows, site_facts, species_seasonality, top_dive_regions. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is PickADive Scuba Diving working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 4 of 91 checks got a reply (4.4%), average response time 967 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists PickADive Scuba Diving as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect PickADive Scuba Diving?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does PickADive Scuba Diving need an API key?
No. PickADive Scuba Diving completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is PickADive Scuba Diving?
It answers our handshake in 967 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is PickADive Scuba Diving open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at pickadive.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.