Because my memory isn't good enough to remember everything about every dive. That info proves useful later on in tons of ways.
Why do you keep a logbook?
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Lynn CA
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I dive in different locations with different water temps from 45 degress F to 90 degrees F, and I find it usful to write down (because I can't remember) if the water is 72, for example what thinkness 3, 5 or 7 ml I wore for protection, and in what combination, (with or without vest, and or hood etc.), and what weight I needed with that amount of protection.
I also use it to track my air consumption at different temps, so I can plan my dive profile better, I can stay down a lot longer in 90 degrees, than I can in 45.
I also use it to track my air consumption at different temps, so I can plan my dive profile better, I can stay down a lot longer in 90 degrees, than I can in 45.
NauticalbutNice
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I like to see how I'm progressing - is my air consumption better or worse, things like that.
I also like to keep a log of things I've seen, who I was with, weather stuff like that!
For me, the logbook is a great way to keep track of all my dives, remember things that I'm bound to forget, and to keep an eye on how I'm progressing as a diver.
Nauticalbutnice :fruit:
I also like to keep a log of things I've seen, who I was with, weather stuff like that!
For me, the logbook is a great way to keep track of all my dives, remember things that I'm bound to forget, and to keep an eye on how I'm progressing as a diver.
Nauticalbutnice :fruit:
From what I've been learning anyways is that most log books are on the honor system. So I decided to be a little creative with my log keeping. I hate paper work of any kind, if I can find something that I can do to keep me interested in my log book keeping and that was by adding a picture for my log book. Now I don't mind doing my log book. It maynot be the way I was taught, but I'm the one that is diving, and I can always get copies of my picture log book from my computer.
Part of the reason I dive is for the memories.
When I'm old, maybe have grandchildren, I would like to be able to recount on days when I found a little bit of paradise beneath the waves.
My memory will probably be fading by then, but my trusty old logbook will contain the key to revisiting that experience, and to pass on its delights.
Seadeuce
When I'm old, maybe have grandchildren, I would like to be able to recount on days when I found a little bit of paradise beneath the waves.
My memory will probably be fading by then, but my trusty old logbook will contain the key to revisiting that experience, and to pass on its delights.
Seadeuce
It has come in use when dealing with the odd (meant both ways) difficult, chest-beater of a diver who chooses to display odd, difficult and chest-beating behaviour.
In which case, I love to leave it open, strategically placed, which seems to end the odd, difficult, and chest-beating behaviour - no words needed, just a subtle message that sometimes comes in handy.
And I like the cert card processed by ANDI in which I am dressed as a nun. Professional? No. Mildly amusing? Yes.
In which case, I love to leave it open, strategically placed, which seems to end the odd, difficult, and chest-beating behaviour - no words needed, just a subtle message that sometimes comes in handy.
And I like the cert card processed by ANDI in which I am dressed as a nun. Professional? No. Mildly amusing? Yes.
I log every dive. My log book reads like a journal of my undersea adventures. Mostly it is shared with my non diving friends who don't know what they are missing by staying on land.
Also, I believe we as divers we are ambassadors to the ocean. If one day somebody is on the beach and picks up some garbage because of the entry in my journal about the reef clean up, then it is worth the time spent making that entry.
Also, I believe we as divers we are ambassadors to the ocean. If one day somebody is on the beach and picks up some garbage because of the entry in my journal about the reef clean up, then it is worth the time spent making that entry.
So... how do you know?
Human memory works in mysterious ways. I can certainly remember a handful of dives when I first started diving years ago. A moving something that made my heart stop on a night dive in Yap; my first "real" descent in Pago Pago harbour - saw a dogtooth tuna cruise by at 80+ feet; then there's the eye contact with a spotted eagle ray in Ponape, and the mutual decision that a 150 lb hunting jack and I both made when working a reef in Samoa that we should not try to nail the other for lunch...
But I have no idea what the water temp was, what thermal protection I wore, what my air consumption rate was, who my buddies were, how many dives I'd had when these events occured - heck I don't even know how old I was or when they occured! And what about the "other" dives that did not have such memorable events attached to them?
That's why I log every dive now. Diving is way too cool to miss the opportunity to savor a dive days, weeks, even years after you dried out your ears and got rid of the funky smell of salt-stained neoprene. Not every log entry reads like Hemingway, but if I want to know who I shared water with 7 Thanksgivings ago, where we dove, and what the water temp was, I can pretty much refresh my memory with a quick look at a logbook.
Cheers!
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Well put, MB.
Mahalo.The Kraken:
Mahalo very much.
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