I know there are no stupid questions but.....

[BuoyantC]

I don't mean to bash anyone, but I see in your profile you are PADI certified, and it is required for training dives to be logged. And they should be signed by the instructor. I'm sure it seems minor and many instructors feel it is unnecessary, but if for no other reason it's a good habit to establish especially for new divers.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I used to keep a separate log for pool time. It was helpful for things like weighting. Later it was used to keep notes on classes. If I had a student as a DM who had trouble with a particular skill I'd note what we did to get them through it. Or if I;d find a new way to demo a skill that was easier for the student to understand. I have not logged any pool dives since becoming an instructor and I stopped keeping track of hours as well when I hit 300 or so.

And like the previous poster said you should have logged your training dives and had them signed off on. ANd it also concerns me that you said it seemed rushed. This is never a good sign when it comes to training.

 

[Sas]

I don't mean to bash anyone, but I see in your profile you are PADI certified, and it is required for training dives to be logged. And they should be signed by the instructor. I'm sure it seems minor and many instructors feel it is unnecessary, but if for no other reason it's a good habit to establish especially for new divers.

Well some people just don't like to log dives so not sure if it is a 'good habit' or not, just something that some people do and some people don't. I had one friend give up logging his dives half way through his OW class for example. He just doesn't care. So really, to each their own, a log is not necessary.

 

[SkimFisher]

It takes hours to breath down an AL80 in a pool. I've tried it. The only pool dive I'll ever log will be Nemo 33.

Well some people just don't like to log dives so not sure if it is a 'good habit' or not, just something that some people do and some people don't. I had one friend give up logging his dives half way through his OW class for example. He just doesn't care. So really, to each their own, a log is not necessary.

You don't know enough about diving half way through your OW class to really make an informed decision on anything. If you're going to dive an AL80 and a 3mil wetsuit in the same dive site for the rest of your life - then don't log dives. But if you're going to get serious about diving and take diving seriously, then it's probably a good idea to log them. At some point you're going to wish you had a log book.

 

[emoreira]

I think that it depends on the pool.
If you dive in the Nemo 33 ( N E M O 33 ), it's a pool, but I would log that dive.
If you dive in the pool of your local club with a pool that hardly reaches 4 meters depth, I wouldn't.
There are several diving parks with artificial lakes or quarries that involves a real diving activity. Those dives are like open water dives and should be logged.
However, IMHO, logging your dives is required if you need to certify something. If not, it depends on you.

 

[BabyDuck]

fnfalman, i totally agree.

kevin, your log is basically for *you* so do what you like. *and*, you can change whatever rules you make!

personally, i'd log a pool dive spent on skills but not a dozen spent hopping in & out purely to try on gear. i'd log a 'pool' dive in an aquarium or disney's dive quest. i wouldn't log for number inflation, but i'm not trying to artificially inflate number of dives, anyway.

 

[ianr33]

Log everything you possibly can.

Will be helpful for that Divemaster class in a month or 2

 

[SkimFisher]

Log everything you possibly can.

Will be helpful for that Divemaster class in a month or 2

 

[BrotherBear]

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I had to laugh on the last day in the lake. We had just finished our emergency accent and my wife and I were the last to go. I waited for her and when she was done I told her we would swim back to shore on the bottom (a good chance to practice our navigation again). We would have been in only about 15' of water and shore was only about 150 yards away so we could probably go about 100 yards before it was to shallow. The instructor was still on bottom but one of his helpers overheard me and insisted we do a surface swim back to shore.

That made me wonder about his confidence in what we had just been taught in the last two days.

I won't take my advanced with him.

Thanks
Kevin

I wouldn't be too hard on the guy, sounds like a responsible instructor. Neither of you were certified divers yet and as such your safety was entirely his responsibility, allowing you to return to shore underwater and unsupervised would have been irresponsible on his part.

Just my .02

 

[BDSC]

this one would be close.

Should I have logged my dives for my open water course? How about pool dives I do over the winter?

Thanks in advance

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