Walkthrough for Dragoman · 14 September 2026

What a diver sees, what we do, what Dragoman does.

Seven stops, in the order a diver would meet them. Everything on this page is a mockup: no money moves, no data is stored, the divers are invented.

InvitationCurationPromiseProcessPurchaseOpen pointsBehind the scenes

1 · Invitation

It starts with a letter, not a listing.

Nobody browses LUCA LANDS for prices. A diver is invited, or applies, and the first thing that lands is a letter about the people they'd be diving with.

From: LUCA LANDS · Subject: A week in Kaş with eight strangers who won't stay strangers

You dive wrecks and you photograph hands. We have a cohort forming for 10 to 17 October with a marine biologist who names every fish, a Belgian couple who have been diving together since 1989, and a 29-year-old from Osaka with 22 dives and perfect buoyancy. The boat is Dragoman's, 21 metres, the crew has been there ten years. Five dive days, two long tables, one Kekova day without tanks. If that sounds like your week, tell us who you are. Five minutes.

This is the invitation to experience. The dives are the container; the people are the offer.

2 · Curation

Five minutes in, a cohort out.

Try it. The form is what a diver fills. The result is what our matching returns to the human who makes the final call: a group and its "why".

Certification Logged dives What you dive for What you're after this year Age Languages Birth date and place (optional, for the story)

How the matching thinks

Gate certification and logged dives set the dive profile. No exceptions, no astrology can override this.

Fit age spread, languages in common, what people are after, temperament.

Story birth data, if given, adds the "why this group" flavour: the meet-your-cohort email.

Human Dragoman and LUCA LANDS approve every cohort. The engine proposes, people decide.

3 · The promise

"You will dive Kaş with a crew that was chosen for you, on a boat that has done this for twenty years, and by the second dive nobody at the table will be a stranger."

What LUCA LANDS promises

A cohort that fits, with a human sign-off.
The introduction letter before arrival.
The evenings: long table, harbour, a plan for each night.
A film and a group photo to take home.

What Dragoman promises

The dives, the safety, the boat, the instructors.
The contract with the diver, the invoice, the insurance chain.
The dive plan for the week, adjusted to the cohort's profile.
Twenty-four years of Kaş underwater.

4 · The process

From application to the last table.

Day 0 · Application LUCADiver fills the five-minute profile. We reply within a week with a cohort proposal or a wait.
Week −8 · Cohort locked LUCADragomanEight to twelve confirmed. Dragoman checks the dive profile of the group and blocks boat days.
Week −8 · Purchase DragomanDiver pays Dragoman. Dragoman issues the invoice and holds the customer contract.
Week −1 · Meet your cohort LUCAThe letter. Names, one line each, dinner time on Saturday.
Day 1 to 7 · The week DragomanLUCADives by Dragoman. Evenings by LUCA LANDS. A host from our side at the table every night.
Day 7 · Departure LUCAGroup photo, film, the WhatsApp group stays. Feedback form: who would you dive with again.
Day 14 · Settlement LUCADragomanLUCA LANDS invoices Dragoman the curation fee for the cohort. Numbers open on both sides.

5 · Purchase

Diver pays Dragoman. We never touch the money.

The checkout lives on our site but the payment is Dragoman's. Our reference travels with it, so both books agree without anyone typing.

Cohort 01 · 10 to 17 Oct · 5 dive days, 10 dives€ 890

Kekova day, sea kayak, no tanks€ 60

Evenings and host (LUCA LANDS, included)€ 0

Payable to Dragoman Diving and Outdoors€ 950

Reference LL-C01-MARA-7F3A · merchant of record: Dragoman (TÜRSAB A-4615) · accommodation and flights not included

Prices are illustrative. Real prices are Dragoman's.

6 · Open points

What we'd like to settle with Murat.

Pilot. Dragoman as the Kaş operator: one test cohort in October 2026, or the first full season in spring 2027?
Payments. What does Dragoman take online payments with today? If the provider can call back (webhook), the checkout above is a week of work. If not, a payment link and a daily reconciliation.
Capacity. Max divers per boat-day for a cohort, guide ratio, how many days a week you'd give one cohort.
Curation fee. Per seat or per cohort; the number. Earlier conversations had 15% on the table.
Abroad, and the Sharm question. Sharm and Raja Ampat are already curated by hand, from Murat's address book, and the conversations prove it works. What made Sharm work, and what would break if the group were strangers? That answer is the spec for the matching. Could a curated cohort ride one of these trips as the first "anywhere" test?
Data. Diver profiles live with LUCA LANDS, minimal and deletable; booking and medical stay with Dragoman. Agree the line.
Name and voice. LUCA LANDS as the brand on the diver side, Dragoman named everywhere the dives are. Comfortable?

Next: behind the scenes, the integration between Dragoman and icatinvent as a system.