WHAT do you bother logging?

[Air On]

So people who dive computers and keep a database just delete or keep a separate category for training and any pool, for what ever reason, dives?
Are people setting their computers to Gauge only or deleting the dives after?

I'd also taken OPEN to mean no overhead to worry about or come up under

If you dive a pond, large spring, river, even a rock quarry they are often closed on the sides and not OPEN sided like a large lake or Ocean/Sea... I'd think they were differnt enough to count?

If I were to do the working dives like in the Reactors, Large aquariumns, NASA space training pools, that huge pools like the 33 meter one in Finland? or the Spring fed pool in Texas, I think they would count?

Appart from "for my use" don't the dives get reviewed if you go for Dive master and Instructor training?

The one common things I've heard is regret for the dives they didn't log when there were doing lots of regular dives.

 

[liuk3]

What about discovery dives prior to being certified?

I never logged them, but I did about 6 of them in hawaii and bora bora. They were absolutely gorgeous dives, and what sparked my interest in scuba, but I never knew whether I was supposed to log them or not. So, for now they only reside in my mind.

Anyway, do you guys log them?

 

[archman]

Heck, I used to log interesting snorkels. Me and some of my co-workers even were required to log a few snorkels as dive proxies, for some NAUI certification I no longer remember. Maybe the Skin Diving Instructor rating... that would make sense.

 

[Tigerman]

The ONLY thing that counts is experience. Pools and diving with a "coach" are b/s.
At some point in your diving - you will be faced with REALITY!!!!!!!
You and you alone are responsible and in charge of your safety.

That is why it's not the number of logged dives but rather the quality/ technicality/ conditions of dives that are looked at by reputable dive ops and guides.

So what youre saying is that in a 30 meter deep pool there is absolutely no experience to be gained?
Diving with a "coach" voids any and all experience you got from the dive?
In that case, the entire concept of getting training is a complete waste of time and all the organizations should just stop their training programs?