Walter:
See how you are?.... you LYAO for some silly rules but lets face it, if someone that matters in PADI was to see your logs, I'm sure things would change dramatically. Emphasis in the drama portion too. I can see it now: “Basic log entry” specialty course, “Intermediate log entry” AND “Advance WWW log entry”
I imagine this is as polarized as the mask issue. I have hard time understanding the concept of proving your experience with self-made paperwork; if there is a level of instruction that requires specific knowledge for real, how dare the instructor to accept the student by looking at written words and numbers.
You actually mentioned something to the effect that a dive not logged didn’t happen. …. The words that come to mind would show up in this post with so many little stars it would look like an astronomy lecture. But we know, love and respect each other enough to handle this comment. You aren’t the diver you are today because of the paperwork, the paperwork only makes you look like an organized (in your case “out there”
person.
Do think about it, contrary to opinions I’ve heard: I’m sure there are people somewhere that agree with me, I fill up logs for a while then I stop, then go back, then stop again. Those logs are for my eyes only (maybe a friend can look) certainly not for a dive operator. I don’t need to prove to anyone how many dives I’ve done and keep doing, I don’t know myself or care for that matter, but I know they did happen, I have all kind of memories of them. I’m sure I forgot a lot of them too.
People should count less and dive more, unless you are getting paid, what difference does it makes if you used 1750psi 1900 or everything that was in whatever container you carried your air?
Just keep diving until you can comfortably make a dive with the only worry being a DM (or other) over-touching your stuff.
Continuous diving (counting or not) allows you to suddenly find yourself without gear in a place with magnificent diving so you gather what ever is available and enjoy a great dive.
Lots of diving as you know, is what allowed you to “succumb” to that famous gender pressure and complete an excellent dive with a cylinder attached to your BC with ropes and gloves.
Oh well, enough posting for the winter break.
