I'm in need of a new log book. I don't like mine at all (Scubapro Waterproof) and want a new one. Does anybody have any favorites?
I'll admit that I haven't kept a logbook in a long time. I diligently logged about the first 600 dives in Microsoft Excel until I broke up with my girlfriend and she took the laptop and formatted the hard drive. No... I did NOT have a backup but I learned a valuable lesson. At that point in time we didn't have a "cloud" but I would recommend saving your dive log in the cloud if you can.
Then in about 2002 I logged another 200 dives or so (also in Excel) because I was thinking about becoming an instructor and you needed evidence of a certain number of dives to get admitted to the course. I managed to get admitted to DM class without this proof but my instructor was one of my regular dive buddies so a number of my dives were in HIS logbook.... LOL.
Since 2002 I haven't kept a logbook aside from making maps of certain dive sites in order to find objects again. My computer tells me that I make about 70 non-training dives a year on average. Since becoming an instructor I probably make another 70 training dives. With the amount of diving I've done the function of a log book is minimal at this point. That said, I liked the log book I made in Excel because it tracked my SAC.
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