WHAT do you bother logging?

[Blind]

I dont log most of my solo dives, and recently thats all ive been doing.

 

[Cacia]

gps coordinates

otherwise, just whatever goes into my Suunto

 

[meesier42]

as I am trying to prep for another course that requires 100 LOGGED dives, it has dawned on me, I don't log anything. My recreational dive log was at 30. Huh, as I think about it, I think I have 30 dives at Ke'eau Corner. Guess I just never really cared, no one has ever asked me for it and really haven't carried it in years.

BTW- it sucks to try and remember all of the places you have dove over the last 10 years and come up with 70 more dives. Specially when you dive the same sites over and over again (man living in Hawaii was tough)

 

[parrotman]

I have been diving for about 11 years and I have about 600 dives. I stopped logging them at 150. I have never once since the day I got my c card, ever been asked by anyone to look at my log book.

 

[Tigerman]

I log all my dives with atleast certain basics..
- Pressure in <bar>
- Pressure out <bar>
- Water <type> Water temp <temp>
- Suit <type/model>
- Weight <ammount>
- Tank <type> <size>
- Buddy <name> (usually "Nope")

This info in addition to location, date, depth and downtime I always log when diving outdoor.
I also have a part of the page set off to write notes about the dime, for example what I saw (or didnt see). Thats the field that might not say much of interest..
I wouldnt normally log pool dives, but there are pools where you can do deeper diving than the PADI OW cert level.. I think Id log dives in such pools...

 

[Tigerman]

I have been diving for about 11 years and I have about 600 dives. I stopped logging them at 150. I have never once since the day I got my c card, ever been asked by anyone to look at my log book.

Nobody else has asked to see mine either, but I do regularilly look in it to check up things from my dives..
I dont log my dives for the benefit of others, I do it for my own benefit..

 

[Bob Vincent]

lots of opinions i am sure; i say NO pool counts. open water meens that, OPEN. In open water I log anything over 15 feet deep as a dive IF the surface interval has been more than 10 minutes. On some training dives with a specific objective in mind, my bottom time may not be that long, but I am documenting the activity, not the bottom time. May do a recovery dive to 50 feet, find the object instantly, secure a line to it, and surface. My job is done, dive is over, and i log it.

Yeah what he said!

 

[BidAndDive.com]

I log anything with the exception of pools. Like Shot said, anything in "Open Water".

 

[underwasser bolt]

I have been diving for over 20 years; l have well over 1000 dives, but quit logging them many years ago. Then my son wants to learn to dive, so we did that this summer. it just started as being a good example, but he fired me up. I now think, why not log dives, maybe do DM or instructor and have a job/hobby after retirement. so now i log, and regret not logging in the past.

 

[pwl]

I have been diving for about 11 years and I have about 600 dives. I stopped logging them at 150. I have never once since the day I got my c card, ever been asked by anyone to look at my log book.

i was asked for mine by a liveaboard dive director last year; plus a couple of wreck-dive operators who wanted to put their stamp in my book *after* the dive that's about it.


what do i log? -> my own dives, usually record various fish and entry/exit notes. handy to remember what sort of air use was necessary, since most of the sites i dive i go back to over again. for dives with students i mainly just keep track of names, and often don't log more than one dive from an OW course unless something interesting happens.

i've been slack recently, there's about a dozen dives in the computer i haven't transcribed