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

[Charlie99]

Bottom line is, it's your log, log the ones you think you should log. Epcot is a pool dive, but if you wanna log it, go ahead.

It all depends on what the log is for. For me, it's something I can look back at and get useful info such as boat/charter names and phone numbers. I seldom take classes and training dives are rare. So they would have a prominent spot in my dive log.

My log is also something of a journal or diary.

A really unique dive, such as Epcot, would probably get a couple pages of notes in my logbook.

 

[wardric]

I was told by an instructor that training dives don't count toward logged dives.

With the agency I was first certified in '93, (FQAS), we logged the OW training dives separately as training dives. So after certification, I started at 0 logged dives. The first years, it seemed to matter but now, who cares

As for answers given here, I agree that the log book is personnal and people can log everything they want although sometimes it's funny (I know a girl who logged a 10 minutes dive at 2 ft of water (no typo here), Really!!! It was open water she said :sigh But it also shows that you cant really judge experience only by a number of logged dives. Experience is a cumulation of different experiences in different environments. Sometimes, you can learn more from a short aborted dive than from a 60+ min. dive at the same reef you've done 100 times.

Finally, I myself would not log swimming pool dives, but something like El Orans place (Nemo33), i would probably since it's pretty cool My logbook serves me as a memory book since I'm not getting younger and I like to write lots of stuff like my degree of satisfaction with a charter, any problems that occured, fauna and flora at different places and periods of the year. The technical data is downloaded from my computer also.

 

[Gil57usa]

Any way you look at it, a Dive is a Dive. Log every one of them.

 

[dbg40]

i quit logging YEARS ago. I keep no record of dives at all, I keep notes from time to time for specific reasons is all.

 

[dive_lover88]

I m logging my dives to cultivate some good habits and also can look back on them when i m "grounded".

Cheers
Darren

 

[Aquanautchuck]

I keep two log books, one for fun and one as a DM. Open water class dives I just add up the minutes and log them as one dive.

In my DM log book I keep notes in it, such as if it was a skill review who I did it on, points I went over and felt they should work on, same for a dry suit orientation. If it is a Open Water class, who was in it, who is buddied with whom, any issues and observations. It helps when you sit down with the instructor and review the students progression with them. It also gives me a record of what I do as a DM.