Scott Lyles
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I have dove for years, and through apathy and time I have no log book to show for it. What is my recourse? I am PAID certified
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Start logging now and hopefully you will have a few dives logged before anyone asks for your log book. I have only been asked to show my log book a handfull of times. When they did look they were primarily interested in recent dives anyway (last 12months). A refresher is never a bad idea! You certainly need to have your C Card.
If you are traveling somewhere you feel this will be an issue you may want to to talk to an instructor about doing a refresher or assessing your skills. The places I have been to that asked for a log book did an in water assessment/refresher with the divers who couldn't show the log book or didn't have enough logged dives in a specified time frame.
If you are traveling somewhere you feel this will be an issue you may want to to talk to an instructor about doing a refresher or assessing your skills. The places I have been to that asked for a log book did an in water assessment/refresher with the divers who couldn't show the log book or didn't have enough logged dives in a specified time frame.
Do you have a dive computer?
If so then you can at least retrieve the dives that at logged on it and put them to paper or a spreadsheet to create a logbook.
If so then you can at least retrieve the dives that at logged on it and put them to paper or a spreadsheet to create a logbook.
Why do you think you need to have a log book?
I personally LOVE logging my dives, for a number of reasons. But not everyone does. I know that some people say that they have been asked to show theirs and I believe them, but it must be a pretty uncommon occurrence, since in over a thousand dives all over the world, that has never happened to me.
So I guess the first question would be why do you want a log book? I'm not saying that you shouldn't keep one, just wondering what made you think of it now after all those years.
So I guess the first question would be why do you want a log book? I'm not saying that you shouldn't keep one, just wondering what made you think of it now after all those years.
I have logged all my dives. I love reading back and reliving the dives. Reminds me how lucky I am to have dived so many sites. That is also why I take pics.
I was in a similar situation. My solution was starting a new log at dive #1 when I wanted to continue further training and needed a proof of dive count/experience.
The options I considered were:
1. Copy my dive buddy's log on shared dives
2. Reconstruct the log based on photos, dive sites and memory.
3. Start new at dive #1
4. Continue without logging
Your answer of why you are considering this question now might help give you an answer.
Cameron
This is one of the main reasons that I log dives. It's not only great to read them later, I find it fun to do the logging itself - sort of like scrapbooking or keeping a diary.
The other reasons are practical. Since I use MacDive and sync with my phone, I always have all of my information with me. That has come in handy since I often have used it to figure out weighting with a new but previously used gear configuration, or when I want to look up information about a wreck with no internet access (I cut and paste large blocks of text from various websites about each new wreck, and store wreck drawings in the log as well).
So yeah, the answer to the OP's question would depend on the reason why they want a log in the first place.
АлександрД
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Did you ever heard about device, named "Scaner" ? 
If this is not available for you - there is another device, named "Camera".
Most of modern cellular (mobile) phones has it
Before each trip I just make new pictures of last pages, from last trip
Most simple way to have "Logbook backup"
But this offer is to the future.
Now you can (as mentioned before) take records from divecomputer or try to recover it from your photos.
Than try to remember approx. nuber of your dive, and start to filling new logbook from last 5-10 dives, that you can remember.
Also you can try to find your friends or buddies, who dive with you, and collect their signs.
If this is not available for you - there is another device, named "Camera".
Most of modern cellular (mobile) phones has it
Before each trip I just make new pictures of last pages, from last trip
Most simple way to have "Logbook backup"
But this offer is to the future.
Now you can (as mentioned before) take records from divecomputer or try to recover it from your photos.
Than try to remember approx. nuber of your dive, and start to filling new logbook from last 5-10 dives, that you can remember.
Also you can try to find your friends or buddies, who dive with you, and collect their signs.
Did you ever heard about device, named "Scaner" ?
If this is not available for you - there is another device, named "Camera".
Most of modern cellular (mobile) phones has it
The thread title is misleading. The OP didn’t lose a logbook, they never did one.
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