Do you keep track of your underwater time?

[Steve_C]

I still keep a paper log but also set up a spread sheet of time temp depth site, operator, etc. handy for quickly checking expected water temps, typical viz, etc at a given site.

For fun i set up some counters for dive operators etc. Paid off. When I commented to the shop co-owner that I had just done my 100th dive with them he gave me a 50% discount.

 

[H2Andy]

Started on paper in '88, and made the dumb mistake of electronic logs exclusively when I got a PDC in the 90's. Well, computers die, proprietary data formats, OS changes, etc. cost me a chunk of my data, and then a hiatus for a few years.... Got back into diving a few years back, and been putting them on paper as well as electronic....

No stamps to be had here (or where I've been), and I never asked a buddy (other than my wife in the early years) to sign. There are occasionally names written down. I thought it was funny to see some very newly minted divers racing around a few weeks back to get signatures, but to each their own.

i started and stayed on paper. so far (knock wood) I've been able to at least get bottom time and max depth for all but a handful of dives (early on I dove without a computer for about a year and three months.

other than for training, I don't get signatures. I never saw the need for them. I did like to take notes on each dive, but some are barely a few words. also, I'd sketch out interesting dive sites or wrecks and draw a trail showing how the dive progressed over the bottom.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Every single dive is logged, stamped and counter signed by the instructor if it was a course.
Date, location, total dive time and max depth reached are entered.
Not able to confirm my total dive time right now but it is around 1,400 hrs.

I didn't log any class dives, but that's just me. If I'm not exploring or looking at marine life I don't consider it a dive. I have never seen any stamps in a logbook before.

 

[scottwilson1]

I realize my dives fall far short of many on the SB forums, and also that I'm gearing up to dive again after 6 years ... but ...

I'm still proud of my diving, not as it compares to others but as a marker of my own diving. and so:

i have 448 dives (I'm anal in keeping track), 279 salt water, 169 fresh water, with 158 overhead dives (68 cavern, 90 cave)

for a total of 586.88 hours underwater (24.45 days)

do you keep track?

do you care?

yup Minutes and hours - don't keep track of fresh/salt ( on a running total anyways )

 

[jbomb001]

247 dives all fresh water for a total 218 hours underwater. If I had my laptop present I could give more info but yes I track everything. Even total cf of breathing gas consumed

Sent from my galaxy S5 Active.

 

[Centrals]

I didn't log any class dives, but that's just me. If I'm not exploring or looking at marine life I don't consider it a dive. I have never seen any stamps in a logbook before.

Dive shop or dm/instructor seal.
There is a operator in Coron(Philippines) who will sell you stickers for some of the wrecks found there.

 

[DivemasterDennis]

I absolutely keep track in my log of each dive, with lots of data, always including underwater time. It is a better gauge of experience, I think, that in mere number of dives.
DivemasterDennis

 

[H2Andy]

I found it helpful to record depths and characteristics of the dive sites to make subsequent dives easier to plan. also I wanted to have memory prompts later on to better remember each dive.

 

[g2]

30 years. 697 dives. Total time: 32,628 minutes underwater, average time 46.81 minutes per dive.

Yeah, I keep track.

 

[TMHeimer]

I often have students sign my book at a course's end. I told a couple of them it may help me remember them when I look at the log in 30 years. One asked my age (then 60) and said something like "good luck with that".