Do you download your dive computer data?

Do you download and save dive computer data?


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I do for every dive, but frankly could care less what anyone else does with their dive data. My data, my log, and that's it.
 
Not going to vote on that poll as its questions are off imo.


I download my dives if and when its convenient. The Perdix just makes it so damn easy no reason not to.
 
I keep a very detailed dive log (and have automated it as much as I can). I download the data from 3 of the 4 dive computers I carry on my dives (can't have too much redundancy can you?) and what ends up in the log is a mix of the data from the three (Perdix AI for the gas data, Garmin Descent Mk1 via MacDive for the bulk of the data, Citizen HyperAqualand for depth and temperature data until Garmin fix the temperature logging bug).

I try to write up a detailed account of the dive including what I did and didn't see so I can go back in a year or so time and work out how often I saw a specific seahorse, or anglerfish, etc. I dive the same few sites all year around so it is useful information for me.

If I get time, I also add photographs to the log.

I know it is overkill and I'm somewhat (OK, very) obsessive but it keeps me off the streets when I'm not diving. I appreciate not everyone is as obsessive as me.
 
Usually after I'm home from the trip whenever I think about it. Bluetooth and the Shearwater Cloud make it straightforward.
 
I log the dive details (dive site, pressures in and out, buddy or DM name etc.) in my log book at the end of the day and download the digital information and consolidate it all at the end of the vacation at home.
 
I log the dive details (dive site, pressures in and out, buddy or DM name etc.) in my log book at the end of the day and download the digital information and consolidate it all at the end of the vacation at home.

AI computers provide starting, ending and SAC rates to the logbook upon upload and my dive computer uses special "face recognition" and "geographical dive site recognition" to determine which buddy and dive site so I don't have to write down anything.

Ok I made up the last part but it would be cool if it could do that.
 
I download all my dives into Subsurface when I get back home and use their cloud sync to transfer to my PC, phone, and iPad. I log gas used, exposure protection, weights, and dive site info for future reference. It’s helpful for me in remembering what I used for a particular trip but even more helpful for answering questions from other divers. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been having a conversation about a dive site and pulled out my phone to check what the temp was, depth was, etc... for somewhere I’ve been that they are going.

Mark
 
Ok I made up the last part but it would be cool if it could do that.

It can but you have to sell your firstborn to the Almighty AI. Snap a GPS-tagged shot of your buddy topside, upload it to google and let it run its face recognition-fu. It'll take a little scripting to pull the data out of google and inject into your divelog.

Your buddy will tell you what sort of fine-tuned targeted ads they see on SB pages.
 
AI computers provide starting, ending and SAC rates to the logbook upon upload and my dive computer uses special "face recognition" and "geographical dive site recognition" to determine which buddy and dive site so I don't have to write down anything.

Ok I made up the last part but it would be cool if it could do that.
Using the Garmin Descent Mk1 and MacDive you pretty much get the "geographical dive site recognition" but then you lose starting and ending pressures because it doesn't have AI.
 

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