lost log book!

[George Talbot]

i'm finishing my degree in the next couple of months, in my gap year i fell in love with being underwater and progressed to my AOW, its a few years on and i want to take this experience to the next level and achieve my RD and my DM!
unfortunately i have lost my logbook... as this is vital to progressing in diving has anyone got any helpful tips on what to do? ideally i would like a new logbook with the dives i did during my OW and AOW to be logged as well.
help would be greaty appreciated

 

[currier]

With whom did you complete your OW & AOW training and subsequent dives? It is possible that someone - your instructor, an assisting DM, a fellow student/buddy - still has this information somewhere in their own logs.

 

[George Talbot]

two different dive schools one in fiji and the other in thailand I'll get in contact with them asap, any ideas where I would get the new logbook from?

 

[DivemasterDennis]

dive-logs.com sells log books, replacement pages and other stuff. There are others who do as well. I would start as soon as you can to recreate all of the book you can. If you have a buddy you dove with on any of the dives, they may have data to share. Good luck!
DivemasterDennis

 

[261311]

As per divemasterdennis, if you need a logbook for a binder (ie. pages you print out yourself) PM me (or click here/ read my next post lower down), I've made my own that are fairly similar to what you'd pick up according to my local LDS. 2 per 8.5x11 page, just slice em and punch em and you're set.

 

[surfinusa555]

If you do a search here on the scubaboard forums for "dive log template" you will find some threads with pdfs you can print out. Here is one with a few http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ne...ing-diving/312613-looking-right-log-book.html

And here is one with even more
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/basic-scuba-discussions/314783-free-dive-log-pages.html

 

[Crass3000]

Were your dives logged on a computer?

 

[kelemvor]

Although it won't help you obtain the data, you could get software such as subsurface. It runs on mac/windows/linux, is free, and can print a hardcopy of your log data to show to a shop or whatever. There's a lot of other software out there as well, but this one is free and written by none other than Linus Torvalds.

 

[261311]

Due to the amount of PMs I got (cool!) you can now find my .pdf for free online on my website. If you have any feedback or items to add to make this more universal, email me!

 

[doctormike]

unfortunately i have lost my logbook... ideally i would like a new logbook

So, your entire dive history was written in a physical thing, made of atoms, and now it's gone, along with all of that important data.


Hmmm... if only there was some way of storing that information in a way that allows you to include unlimited supplementary data (like dive profiles and images), back it up, print it out, keep it on your phone, keep in on a website, etc...



Seriously, if this doesn't convince you to use a digital log, nothing will...