Transferring dives to new log book

[Gonz]

After a brief search I didn't find a direct answer to this so I thought I'd post a new topic with an easily search-able title.

As evidenced by my feeble searching skills and minimal logged dives, I'm a newer diver with one of those tiny paper ghetto log books that the dive shop gave me after my OW certification. So Santa's going to be bringing me a newer nicer zippered log book to keep all my info in. However I'm wondering how I go about transferring over the 15 or so dives I have in the small book, with DM and Instructor signatures and stamps.

Thanks for the help!


Andy

 

[Bratface]

After a brief search I didn't find a direct answer to this so I thought I'd post a new topic with an easily search-able title.

As evidenced by my feeble searching skills and minimal logged dives, I'm a newer diver with one of those tiny paper ghetto log books that the dive shop gave me after my OW certification. So Santa's going to be bringing me a newer nicer zippered log book to keep all my info in. However I'm wondering how I go about transferring over the 15 or so dives I have in the small book, with DM and Instructor signatures and stamps.

Thanks for the help!


Andy

I just cut the training pages out of the "starter" log book and placed them in the back of my new log book. When I had additional certifications, I added them to the "educational" part of the log.

 

[Charlie99]

Why bother? Just keep it somewhere that you can find it if you go to do a Rescue class or something and the instructor wants to see it to verify the # of dives.

I just jot down total dives # and bottom time into the front pages of the new logbook and continue on.

 

[cummings66]

That's how I do it. No point of creating extra work when over the years you're going to have many logs to contend with, or might if you dive often enough and log those dives.

Worse case just transfer the data, forget about sigs and stuff like that and make a note that the original is book such and such. From what I can tell most sigs are done during the OW cert process, the rest seem to be just logging the data and an occasional dive buddy sig for special purposes.

 

[Walter]

Volume 1 and volume 2. Keep diving and you'll have way too many to even consider keeping it in one book.

 

[J75]

My buddy keeps his original training log book tucked into the back of his current log book. I trasnferred all of the information into a new log book and then had the instructor sign the new pages when I ran into him at the LDS.

 

[fire_diver]

Got to agree with Walter here. Don't create extra work for yourself. Before too long, those first few dives wont matter in the grand scheme of things. Just keep the original log somewhere accessible if needed.

 

[ZzzKing]

You could also photocopy them, punch them, and put them in the new binder.