logging dives

[SeaHorseWoman]

Does one log a dive everytime one is under water with a tank? In my course, I dove (dived?) 10 times, but my instructor had me log and stamped 6. They were written in as course dives. If I go to practice skills with an instructor (in the sea,not a pool), do I log it.

Latest new diver news here is that, unknown 'til today, my horse riding instructor has her AOW. She's ready to go. Mention diving and they come out of the walls!

Barbara,SHW

 

[MtnDiver]

Hope you're wearing your flame-proof undies! :fire:

This is one of the more hotly contested topics I've seen on Scubaboard. You'll probably get about as many answers as respondents.

Basically, log whatever you want to log, no more, no less. That's the conclusion I've come to after several long threads on this topic.

 

[El Orans]

To name a few...

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=122165

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=115843

 

[Walter]

Any open water dive should be logged. If it's not deep enough or doesn't last long enough, it may not count for training purposes, but should be logged. Dives in pools (including aquariums) don't count. If you do log them (most don't), either don't count them or keep a separate count for confined water dives.

The topic is often discussed, but it is not "hotly contested."

 

[SeaHorseWoman]

. Dives in pools (including aquariums) don't count. If you do log them (most don't), either don't count them or keep a separate count for confined water dives.

I guess this accounts for those first 4 dives--considered confined water,though the were in the Red Sea to 8m.

 

[airmonkey]

this subject is like the neverending story
I tend to log what my computer does unless it's one of those crazy 1 minute dives it seems to log now and again, but then I don't really number my dives anymore I just log them. The shortest dive I ever logged was 6minutes/6metres which I wouldn't normally bother with but this was in a little cave/sump/type thing that we went in for the first time and we literally spent about 30minutes climbing over all kinds of stuff and taking all our gear off putting it back on again taking it off again.... so I thought that it deserved a mention, even if its just to laugh at how tired I was at the end of it all!

 

[RICHinNC]

Go ahead....ask about pony bottles!!!

Welcome to the board. Most on here is worthwhile. Have fun...and take the rest with a grain of salt.

 

[SeaHorseWoman]

Go ahead....ask about pony bottles!!!

i carry mine in a saddle bag.

 

[spectrum]

Go ahead and log anything you want to. Just log it accurately. If you sorted out something about a skill or configuration it's important to capture that. If you feel a pool session is not a dive make it a reference line, just don't increment your dive count.

If you go onto a training level that is dive count based they can review the details and ignore any non qualifying dives per their standards. It's your log and your record and keepsake.

Pete

 

[Prestonhf01]

depends on instructor usually open water unless you call them training sessions