John, I guess I'm just popular. I always have a buddy to dive with. I'm sure I could recruit someone on the boat if needed, but I've never needed to. I like my dives to be fun!
Disturbing trend in diving?
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It's not about the agency. A class is only as good as the instructor. We're charging the same for classes as we did 20 years ago. E-learning has helped take some of the onus off of the instructor, but we have to pay for that too. Many instructors have to cut corners just to make ends meet. Those of us who teach as a hobby, have the luxury to spend the time necessary, since we have other income streams. Dive shops and full-time instructors are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Eric Sedletzky
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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.
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.
- Messages
- 20,982
- Reaction score
- 20,734
- Location
- Philadelphia and Boynton Beach
- # of dives
- 1000 - 2499
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
You too!
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 
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Oh, well, just a side rant, carry on doing whatever makes for happiness.
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.
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