Unrepresentative profile "logged dive" numbers?

[scubadada]

Don't read more into it than is there - I just like the words.

I don't think that "I don't log dives" or "I'm a Fish" necessarily refer to dives in excess of 5000 that they follow, I see them as alternatives added to the list for fun not an indication of the highest dive counts.

I have 5 logged dives in my logbook - 4 from certification in 1981 then one more around 2005 when a shop in Curacao required seeing one completed on location there so they would waive their checkout dive.

So judging by that, I'm a novice right - see how misleading that can be?

I've been offered an SSI Master Diver cert based solely on dives my local shop knows I've done.

Dove most of the best of the Caribean (about 10 locations), multiple times to Hawaii, some SoCal and South Carolina diving and twice to Mexico. We dive a lot also, feel cheated if we do less than 20 dives/wk.

I keep a log since about 2000 in diverecord.com and print out a summary of dives/depths/hours for dive operations to review but no one has ever asked to see it. Even though I only show them an OW card - albeit a very old one. Got it right before SSI took over NASDS back in the 90's?

Since I live in a land-locked state I don't have any local dive options. All of my diving requires flying somewhere. At least once, sometimes twice a year - influenced by when my buddies could go.

No problem with me @diversteve

To each their own. I've kept a paper log since I restarted diving after a 17 year absence in 1997. I also have a spreadsheet and my computer downloads, yes I am OCD about my diving. I enjoy being able to go back and reclaim information about any of my dives. It has proved useful to help others here on SB

You seem to be able to recall your trips is great detail, just a good memory?

Very best and good diving, Craig

 

[scubadada]

As recreational divers, it's difficult for most of us to get more than 2500 dives, let alone 5000 dives.

 

[TMHeimer]

I can understand why people don't post total dives if they don't know the number. When I signed up for OW it never would have occurred to me to log dives. BUT, they gave me a log book and I have OCD. Plus, PADI said I should do this, so I must. I have 710 to date.

 

[lv2dive]

In my book, those "lost" logged dives of yours were logged, just because the logbook got lost doesn't mean they weren't logged

I have a few hundred dives actually logged - and over a thousand dives. That's my explanation for "I'm a fish"

As for myself, here's an interesting one: I lost 350 dives off my logged dive count when my one computer drowned and I didn't have it backed up. Lost 128 when another drowned. (Both were salvaged: one had previously drowned and the other was nonfunctional when I got them. Used them as a backup to tables). I've personally run in to the struggle of how to answer when filling out TDI forms. 'total dives' and 'maximum depth' result in candid discussion with the instructor and agreeing how they'd like it recorded.

Regards,
Cameron

 

[MaxBottomtime]

As recreational divers, it's difficult for most of us to get more than 2500 dives, let alone 5000 dives.

Exactly. I dive so much that when I go more than two weeks without diving I get depressed and short tempered. By three weeks...well, I don't want to even think about three weeks between dives. Even diving more than most people I know it has still taken me 28 years to get to 2250 dives. I have lived close to the ocean the entire time I've been certified. I've had four boats in that time as well. I'm always amazed at the divers who say they have 5,000 dives. Either they never go two weeks between dives or they count class and pool dives.

 

[JohnnyC]

I honestly don't know how many I have. I generally only put down info if it's pertinent to keep at hand. Weighting with a new CCR in salt and fresh water for example, or exposure protection, that sort of thing. I might have 150 dives logged? Maybe? I think I'll change my profile to 0-24, to more accurately reflect my maturity level.

 

[RayfromTX]

I honestly don't know how many I have. I generally only put down info if it's pertinent to keep at hand. Weighting with a new CCR in salt and fresh water for example, or exposure protection, that sort of thing. I might have 150 dives logged? Maybe? I think I'll change my profile to 0-24, to more accurately reflect my maturity level.

Now that is misleading. Please let me be the first to say based on your dive count that you need to post less and dive more. hehe I'm glad we got that out of the way.

 

[BDSC]

I probably have over 100,000 dives but if I put that down some folks might think I made that number up.

 

[Wookie]

I probably have over 100,000 dives but if I put that down some folks might think I made that number up.

'zatall?

 

[RainPilot]

3 dives a day for 100 years is dedicated indeed.