Total dive hours

[caymaniac]

I used to track it (dive time), but don't anymore. After completing somewhere between 600 - 1000 dives I quit keeping track. I used to find that 15 - 20 years ago I was concerned that a dive op might require my log, but I found that this thought is not true. What then exactly would be the point of keeping track???

Dive Safe,
Caymaniac :boom:

 

[jengineer]

Gotta agree with the other posters. Last time I tallied up was in July. I don't count the piddly short dives under 20 minutes - retrieving anchors setting floats...

757 dives for a total of 407 hours and 59 minutes.
Works out to about 53 minutes per dive.

je

 

[mwilding]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...

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4) If you want to know what the experience level of an advice giver is ask them directly... and then don't bet on it.

haha - so true

 

[smrtblnddiver]

I have to agree with Uncle Pug. I'd find it pretty meaningless in determining someone's experience level for getting advice.

My experience has shown that warm water dives are shallower, easier, and longer than any of the regular cold water diving I do. So, a regular warm water diver is going to have more hours than a cold water diver. But, I would never equate that to an experience level. They are two completely different diving experiences.

 

[adshepard]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...


... 4) If you want to know what the experience level of an advice giver is ask them directly... and then don't bet on it.

Ain't that the truth. Very funny.

Agree with the entire post.

DSDO

Alan

 

[IndigoBlue]

fgray1 once bubbled...
Just wondering how many divers track there dive hours.

The dive computer does it for me. Saves it in memory too each year when I change the battery.

 

[fgray1]

The responses and remarks are very interesting.
Says alot about the people that did.
A response or advice was never requested.
A poll was simply placed out there. You could have simply choose to ignor it.
Interesting !!!!
I wonder how many that responded actualy anwsered the poll.
The scuba board is a great source of information.

 

[Uncle Pug]

fgray1 once bubbled...
The scuba board is a great source of information.

And it is also a great source of misinformation... one needs to read with care.

As for your poll... please don't take the criticisms of it personally (though that is probably asking the impossible I hope that you won't.)

Beyond the fact that the results of any poll cannot indicate the validity of advice given by any individual poster... I (as well as others I'm sure) found it interesting that you included so many choices between 0 and 100 hours but only the one over 100 hours.

As a point of reference how many hours do you have underwater and did you notice that changes in experience/expertise where associated with time or with training?

What subjective levels of expertise would you assign to the various selections in your poll... ie. n00b, intermediate, advanced, expert, ect.?

Are there some ways for us on Scuba Board to qualify the advice offered by posters?

 

[perpet1]

smrtblnddiver once bubbled...
I have to agree with Uncle Pug. I'd find it pretty meaningless in determining someone's experience level for getting advice.

My experience has shown that warm water dives are shallower, easier, and longer than any of the regular cold water diving I do. So, a regular warm water diver is going to have more hours than a cold water diver. But, I would never equate that to an experience level. They are two completely different diving experiences.

I very much agree that time (in terms of number of dives OR time underwater) does not = expereince. expereince = expereince and that's it.

When asking for advice determine the experience of the one providing the advice. A person with 2000 dives in Puget Sound probably is not the best person to ask about the hazards associated with tropical wildlife just as the person with 1000 hours under water in the tropics will be experienced with the perils of tidal currents in the northeast. Then once you have a grasp on the expereince then you need to consider the source or the advice. Just because somone has a 1000 hours does not mean that they know more then the next guy it just means that they have 1000 hours (OR CLAIM TO HAVE 1000 HOURS).

 

[NavyDoll]

I tend to agree with the fact that total dive hours does not necessarily indicate skill/experience. I think it may have been a more meaningful poll if you could have included information about
1) length of time diving (months/years)
2) number of dives
3) total bottom time

I have logged over 100 dives since I began diving last December (2002)... approximately 60+ hours of bottom time. I think that makes me a fairly experienced diver... when compared to someone who has logged 100 dives and 60+hrs... but taken 3 years to do so! But... i would be less experienced than someone who logs 100 dives & 60+hrs in the space of 6 months. (this is assuming we are all diving in the same climate... cold salt water, variable viz... off Vancouver Island

Just a point to ponder!!
Yes.. I did answer the poll

navydoll

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