If you keep a log, do you count training dives toward your total?

[Brian Gilpin]

ScubaKimiie

It would be nice if life could be so simple. Obviously we need a new international body to bring order to this chaos.They could promulgate a set of rules for generally understood logbook procedures or GULP for short. If everybody was free to fill out logboks any way they wanted the result would be total anarchy.

Actually I could care less about logbooks. They kind of remind me of the diaries pre teen girls keep.

 

[DennisW]

Ellen,

It's your log book. Log what you want when you want. Not anyone elses business.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I don't log pool dives. If I'm strapping a tank to my back and diving the big water, a quarry, or a spring, it gets logged.

The only time I might log a pool dive, is if I were doing something like a rebreather or a drysuit. Some specialty thing of this nature...

 

[fairybasslet]

Now I'm just curious ... were there any learning objectives for your AOW dives? And if so, why would he not want you to log them?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I hope there were learning objectives, although I kind of flunked fish ID. No, he told me to log them but that I shouldn't count the dives toward my total count. I know. Weird.

 

[fairybasslet]

Ellen,

It's your log book. Log what you want when you want. Not anyone elses business.

As long as it's not like Kaavya Viswanathan'n "novel," right?

Maybe his reasoning was because he was diving with us? Or maybe he was thinking was like TS&M. Who knows. I also wouldn't log pool dives.

 

[Thalassamania]

To my way of thinking a dive log is a record of pressure exposure, I'd log every pressure exposure, including pool and chamber. If your instructor wants you to have a certain number of OPEN WATER DIVES logged before letting you into a class or such, that's his or her business.

 

[DiveBandit]

I logged all my training dives (except pool dives), and I logged my Epcot Divequest dive. I think 27' of water for 40 minutes even in an aquarium is a dive worth logging. You can't exactly stand up and walk out of an Aquarium like you would a pool. My .02 cents

 

[fairybasslet]

I logged all my training dives (except pool dives), and I logged my Epcot Divequest dive. I think 27' of water for 40 minutes even in an aquarium is a dive worth logging. You can't exactly stand up and walk out of an Aquarium like you would a pool. My .02 cents

I logged my DiveQuest dive too, only because they said it should count. A few of us asked and they said it was a legitimate dive. Only we stayed in for 50 minutes.

 

[Walter]

To my way of thinking a dive log is a record of pressure exposure, I'd log every pressure exposure, including pool and chamber. If your instructor wants you to have a certain number of OPEN WATER DIVES logged before letting you into a class or such, that's his or her business.

I don't log exposures to pressure, I log open water dives.

 

[Walter]

I logged my DiveQuest dive too, only because they said it should count. A few of us asked and they said it was a legitimate dive. Only we stayed in for 50 minutes.

What's "DiveQuest?"