What counts as a dive?

[tangfish]

I count what my computer counts as a dive.

 

[WaterDawg]

My suunto count even a 15 second trip to 15 a dive, if it is more than 5 mins after another dive, so I cant count that. For me its anything 20 for 20 mins or more. Anything else I just serves to inflate dive totals.

 

[Scuba Jerm]

I read through most of the responses and was waiting to see someone use a source. Padi is a pretty good one to follow. It seems that among the diving community, we are a bit relaxed about the whole thing.

 

[Xanthro]

I log whatever I feel like. The log book is for my uses. Sometimes I'll log a pool dive because I'm making gear changes and I want to know later exactly what I changed how it helped or hurt.

If I jump in the pool for just fun, I don't log that. Nothing to refer back to.

I sometimes don't log ocean dives because there is nothing I want to refer back to.

 

[Jim Ernst]

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)

i think andy said it well, my 02

 

[Christi]

As soon as you descend below the surface, you start accumulating N2 into your system which by any agency's dive tables, you incur a surface interval whether it was 4 feet or 100 ft and you were breathing off of a compressed gas cylinder.

I use a computer just like a lot of experienced divers. I noticed that within a couple minutes of the dive, my "No Fly" icon appears and that to me means I have executed a dive.

Regarding pool dives: This last weekend, I participated in my underwater skills testing for my DM cert. It was a big class of OW students and 4 DM candidates. 2 of our 3 dives on Sunday were close to 40 minutes each @ 10', Why wouldn't anyone count that as a dive? Training, fish counts, feeding fish or cleaning/maintenance in an aquarium (public type, not you comon home type - that would be awkward), or scraping crap off the bottom of a boat.

You didn't indicate if you were doing a PADI DM cert or other agency.

But if you are doing a PADI DM cert, then you should know that that those 10' dives do not count as a dive.

I HIGHLY encourage you to familiarize yourself with the standards...this is a standard and you should know it.

 

[Eagle-scuba]

after working the shipyard in San Diego, any dive with compressed air for a duration of 20minutes or more, cleaning keels, hulls, or bow prods,should be counted, same as pool training sessions, it is just a personal thing anyway....depends how you feel telling others about the experience....how will they react to a logged dive of 5 min @ 6 ft.....your call...see ya` under

 

[Divmstr223]

Were you under water? Did you breath off of your tank? Well, it's a dive as far as I'm concerned. If I was 5 feet under water for 10 minutes, it's certainly nothing to talk about at the bar that night....but it's a dive as far as I'm concerned.... I probably wouldn't try to count it as a logged dive when trying to meet minimum requirements for DM or Instructor....you might draw a few laughs from someone...