Where do you log your dives?

[Divmstr223]

This topic I'm sure has been done before so I'll appologize in advance..

I hate keeping a written dive log, always have. I probably have several books containing all my scribbled notes and information and I'm finally in the process of organizing them. I recently bought the Oceanic VT Pro computer which comes with a software dive log, which is pretty cool, already used it once.

Alternately, quite a while back I signed up for an account at http://divelogonline.com which it a free site and gives me the ability to store my dives online to access wherever I may feel like accessing them...lol I'll probably store them at home on my Oceanic software and also online as a back up. I used to have my dive buddies sign my log when I first started diving 12 years ago, but I haven't done this in ages. Is this still a common practice?

Where do you guys archive your dives? :14:

 

[Scuba_RN]

I have a log book I was given when I obtained my OW cert. Everything is in there for now.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

I still log my dives but sometimes it's only numbers. I only do a narrative for vacation dives.

Most guys I know now are uploading their dives to their desktops and printing htem out.

 

[H2Andy]

logbook. got it during my OW class 5 years ago

it looks like the one below, minus the wavy thing below the flags:

 

[Divmstr223]

I still log my dives but sometimes it's only numbers. I only do a narrative for vacation dives.

Most guys I know now are uploading their dives to their desktops and printing htem out.

You just reminded me, there was a long period of time when I didn't log anything...probably around 50 or so dives that were pretty redundant at the same ol place all the time. I just stopped logging them. But I'm back to practicing good habits again...lol

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Sometimes I just write down "checkouts, 6 dives, lost creek lake mudhole" and that's it.

 

[amascuba]

The only problem with keeping your logbook on the software the oceanic provides with their computer is that most people do not take the time, or know how to back up their files on their computer and if something happens then they've lost all their logs. (except the ones that are logged onto the dive computer, but you still lose allot of detail)

I love onlinedivelog.com. I have every single one of my dives logged on that site. It's easy to print out and search for my dives and also is useful for calculating total bottom time for all my dives. It does however lack some of the functionality that I wish I had out of an web based dive log, that would be very possible to create and I wouldn't think it would be that hard to implement on that site.

I have written my own web based dive log to work on what onlinedivelog.com lacks, but it's very beta and it still lacks some of the features that I want, but I'm working on it when time permits.

I also keep logs on my computer from my uwatec computer with the software that came with it. It works well and is nice to be able to look at my dive profile.

My most used log though is my written log. I carry it with me to the dive site and try as much as possible to log during surface intervals while the dives are still fresh in my mind, but sometimes I have to go 2 - 3 dives before I log and that's fine with me.

 

[H2Andy]

i record time, max depth, location, and anything worth remembering

a typical entry is something like:


2/26/06, Peacock I

1:13 @56 : Peanut Tunnel, 1400 feet

w/ WaterDawg (Chris)

had a bit of a runaway ascent at Breakdown Room on way up. got close to
ceiling before i deflated wing and suit. WD's drysuit flooded. had to call
second dive

 

[TSandM]

Me, I'm still so amazed at every dive I do that it gets logged, and whenever possible, I get my buddy to sign it (got NW Grateful Diver to sign my log for the very first time last night ) I have a written logbook, and my best friends' present to me last night was a zipped binder like the one H2Andy has in his thumbnail. I really enjoy going back over the narratives and reading them . . . oh yeah, THAT was the dive where I corked on JasonH20, who has not only never dived with me again, but has disappeared from ScubaBoard as well. I am SO influential . . .

 

[daniel f aleman]

I log all dives as a Divemaster; and I'll log "real dives", but I don't log every dive where I'm just going down for the fun of it.