Disturbing trend in diving?

[Eric Sedletzky]

I do say exactly that. I don't want a ruined dive that I paid good money and traveled quite a distance for, and even worse accept liability for a stranger. In the US divers have been sued following an accident involving a random assigned buddy.

The crew may say you must take this person as your buddy but it can't hurt to argue the point even to the point of refusing to dive and demanding a refund.

You're not going to get sued by an instabuddy that the dive boat stuck you with.
You're not a pro under contract and getting paid. You didn't volunteer to be the IB's buddy or agree to be fully responsible for them, you're just another paying customer. If something goes wrong the operator will be sued not you. In fact you might even have a case against them since you were as much a victim as the IB.

 

[Searcaigh]

Do any of you log your dives?

100% logged since 1991

In thew late 1990s I tried doing stuff with Suunto software as I then had a computer, but these files are on a hard drive in an old computer, but I still have the written logs of these dives.

Although I download my dives from a Shearwater computer, I still log on paper, which astounds many other divers I meet on boats and on my travels.

 

[boulderjohn]

In the US divers have been sued following an accident involving a random assigned buddy.

I don't believe this has ever happened.

 

[The Chairman]

I still log on paper,

I knew you were a luddite!

 

[scubadada]

100% logged since 1991...

All 2,437 dives and 2,440 hours since 1997

I also have all on a spreadsheet and many downloaded to Oceanic OceanLog and Shearwater Cloud

 

[The Chairman]

All 2,437 dives since 1997
View attachment 884279

I also have all on a spreadsheet and many downloaded to Oceanic OceanLog and Shearwater Cloud

You too!

 

[Nemrod]

This thrread has wandered afar and circled about so while off subject, what exactly is the point of logging dives beyond about 100 dives which is the threshold for some courses? I mean, like, I am 71 years old, standing on the dock there with no price tags hanging off my gear, regulators often older than the mean scubaboard age and a $7000 Nauticam! I mean, I would think but all but the most wet behind the ears DMs or whoever might figure I sort of know what I might be doing and I am not the one they need worry over! Good grief.

I remember my dives, I remember my first dive, I certainly remember my 100th dive . I remember my cert dives, I remember when the tiger tried to eat my strobes, I remember the time a bullshark accidentally snuck up on my buddy and they both got a fright and I spit my regulator out and nearly drowned laughing at the Destin Finger Jetty, I remember the strange woman who swam up to one of the divers in our group and motioned for him to follow her thinking he had a rebreather because he had a dh regulator and she was in trimix tech config and perhaps he was her instructor/buddy, or something! That was weird. I remember when the dive guides got lost and could not figure out where the boat was and I pointed up, yep, it is right there. Point is I remember enough, I could not imagine going back and looking at dive records. Well, if I were to tag or put my photos in with the logs, hmmmm, that could be cool. But a little late to start doing that now after 56+ years diving and taking photos for most of those, really, really bad ones too I must admit .

Oh, well, just a side rant, carry on doing whatever makes for happiness.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

James, you might have just opened up another can of worms that will make this thread worthy continuing on for many more pages. "The disturbing trend of divers keeping (or not keeping) a dive log". And to add to that, written or digital? Oh god!

 

[scubadada]

Hi @Nemrod

I log my dives because I like to and it makes me happy. I have gone back to them many times, for myself and for others.

You remember your seawater aspiration, nearly drowning and having pneumonia. I remember when I was hit by a boat in Delray during a summer squall. Luckily, for both of us, most of the memories are much more pleasant than those

 

[JuLe]

James, you might have just opened up another can of worms that will make this thread worthy continuing on for many more pages. "The disturbing trend of divers keeping (or not keeping) a dive log". And to add to that, written or digital? Oh god!

I'm still wet behind the ears with regards to diving, maybe that's why I log my dives. And being an grumpy old sob, I like to log them with the pen to paper method. (I do download info from my dive computer onto my laptop, but I just like written logs better.)