What counts as a dive?

[KidK9]

Padi says No - if your mask is on your forehead.

That's funny! However, if you had an interest in dive bars, PADI would give you a specialty card for it (of course it would cost you $100 tho).

 

[Gary D.]

Haha, I'm curious too... Nimitz class aircraft carriers have a draft of 38.4 feet...

Now, I could see dropping a tool and having to go down to 40 feet to retrieve it. That'd make sense. Course... we're being nitpicky, but it's fun!
-Brandon.

A lot of people think being a Navy Diver is exciting and adventurous. Well, there are times when it is. BUT the majority of the dives are a PITB.

When they hand you a heavy gage steel dust-pan and point to a ship you know it isn’t going to be a fun couple of days.

There are sections on a Carrier, Tanker, Transport and general war ships that need regular cleaning and guess what, it’s done by hand.

SO, if a Carrier has a 38’ draft, and that varies, don’t you think you would exceed 40’ just getting under it?

My Tender had a draft over 30’ when fully loaded. Sometimes the diver is actually lying on the bottom while working on the ship’s bottom.

On working dives you might want to be logging them. If anything were to happen you have a track record to fall back on. Like the old saying goes, If it didn’t get written down it didn’t happen.

Gary D.

 

[H2Andy]

What counts as a dive?

any use of scuba as life support equipment under conditions where i can
challenge and improve my diving skills

i figure if you can drown during it, it's a dive

(i don't know why working dives are less of a dive than a recreational
dive.... working dives are certainly more challenging than your average
reef tour)

 

[El Orans]

However, I draw the line at the pool. If it is in a swimming pool it is not a actual dive.

How about about a 40 minute 35m/115ft dive in a pool?

 

[MSilvia]

If you aren't sure you've been diving, don't count it.

 

[H2Andy]

If you aren't sure you've been diving, don't count it.

nice

 

[spectrum]

PADI defines an open water dive as:

1. Diver spends the majority of time at a depth of at least 15 feet, AND
2. breathes at least 50 cubic feet of compressed gas, OR
3. remains submerged for at least 20 minutes.

I know that there are pundits out there who way that "anytime your head breaks the surface with full scuba, you are diving;" I tend to stick with the above definition. Some training pools go beyond 15 feet; most I've seen do not.

That's a definition of a valid training/evlauation dive. I see it as irrelevant post cert. Besides, I'm no PADI

Pete

 

[surfbummer]

You know what they say about opinions!

That's a definition of a valid training/evlauation dive. I see it as irrelevant post cert. Besides, I'm no PADI

Pete

 

[Storm]

That's a definition of a valid training/evlauation dive. I see it as irrelevant post cert. Besides, I'm no PADI

Pete

There is a pool in my region that is 18 feet deep (They have a serious dive tower) so does that mean if my dive buddy and I decent for 30 or 40 mins to the 16 foot mark to practice horizontal hovering and s drills that we are not doing an actualy dive?

While I think it might look like you're padding your log book wth dives such as these how are they less of a dive than the same shallow drfit div along a reef?

Is it the open water aspect the defining factor. What if I went to my local OW training site and did the same 16 foot s-drill dive? Would this be a dive one would log?

If so what is the difference between the pool dive and the open water dive?

 

[Christi]

I count OW training dives in the ocean, because after the skills, it IS a dive...it IS a dive even withthe skills as long as it's at least 15 to 20+ minutes below 15 feet... but I do not count confined water or pool sessions. I typically do not count discover dives either. Come to think of it, I haven't logged my dives in a very long time. I have decided to log dives when I go somewhere other than Cozumel though...so that I can remember where I went and look back at the things I liked/disliked about certian areas.