altaskier
Contributor
Other parts of your questions: most of the time you stay out on the boat during the surface interval between dives. The only place I've had it done otherwise was in Belize where some of the dives were a 3 minute boat ride out from the dock.
I have an air-integrated computer and download my dives to my laptop. That way I don't have to remember all of those pesky numbers; instead, I just enter a few sentences per dive, and the location, and (as others have said) my weighting. Still doing it after 320 dives. It's nice to see my air consumption rate in warm versus cold water, my weights for my different gear configurations (3 mm wetsuit and aluminum 80 in warm water, drysuit and HP steel 120 tank in cold water), etc. etc.
And - as others have said - it's up to you to log, or not log. The only place where I've asked to have a paper log seen was at Bonne Terre Mine, because they won't let you go to the next set of "trails" until they see what you've done within the past year.
I have an air-integrated computer and download my dives to my laptop. That way I don't have to remember all of those pesky numbers; instead, I just enter a few sentences per dive, and the location, and (as others have said) my weighting. Still doing it after 320 dives. It's nice to see my air consumption rate in warm versus cold water, my weights for my different gear configurations (3 mm wetsuit and aluminum 80 in warm water, drysuit and HP steel 120 tank in cold water), etc. etc.
And - as others have said - it's up to you to log, or not log. The only place where I've asked to have a paper log seen was at Bonne Terre Mine, because they won't let you go to the next set of "trails" until they see what you've done within the past year.