What do you put in your dive log you wouldn't want anyone to see?

[piikki]

My log book is half a (travel) diary, so I usually make sure I don't leave it laying around. Nobody has ever asked to check it. If some dive op/shop ever asked to I am sure they'd get pretty exhausted by page 3.

I usually try to code/disguise at least the characters involved in most embarrassing encounters. Sometimes I am not too graceful when I leave "honest" feedback about eg charters (for future reference), and I guess those might be something that would jump up if someone "official" was to scan the books.

I hardly think too many people would find my logbook too interesting though. People involved in the dives occasionally giggle and cackle about the comments I have made about them.

 

[MX727]

Former girlfriends/wives names. The new girl just "loves" seeing how great a time you had with an ex...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

In one of the posts here, someone wondered what happened to the resorts, dive shops, etc., checking logs for experience. It got me thinking that if anyone requested to check my dive log, I'd die of embarrassment. Sure, I put the usual stuff in there about the dive (depth, water temp, etc.) but when it comes to writing about the dive, it always entails stuff like: (blank) had a big piece of ear wax sticking out of his ear, or I stipped down and was going to jump in the water after the bag of brats thrown by the other boat but (blank) beat me to it. Usually it's about things that I found entertaining - "chased husband with a dead fish on wreck, he wasn't too thrilled" (hates dead fish). See where I'm going with this. If anyone read my log book they'd think I'm a little off!!! Am I the only one???

If I knew nothing else about you, your logbook entries alone would tell me that you're a female (even sans references to a husband).

In general (yes, I know ... there are exceptions) ... guys write statistics in their log book ... gals write stories, often with accompanying diagrams, stickers and other forms of visual aids.

I love reading Cheng's dive log ... it's an historical novel of our dives. Mine's a bunch of numbers.

On an unrelated note, I found a set of wetnotes laying on the bottom once ... turns out they belonged to someone I knew. They were interesting reading ... some entries in there from when him and his wife were on their (diving) honeymoon ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[SlowRain]

On an unrelated note, I found a set of wetnotes laying on the bottom once ... turns out they belonged to someone I knew. They were interesting reading ... some entries in there from when him and his wife were on their (diving) honeymoon ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

And ummmm....you have never looked at her quite the same since? :icoeek:

You are right though...my log book is really nothing but numbers and more numbers.

 

[TSandM]

Oh, mine is a female logbook, but most of the critical stuff is critical of ME. Lots of stuff about my struggles to master this sport . . . It reads a lot like the journal of my OW class, only less wordy as time went on.

 

[piikki]

On an unrelated note, I found a set of wetnotes laying on the bottom once ... turns out they belonged to someone I knew. They were interesting reading ... some entries in there from when him and his wife were on their (diving) honeymoon ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

hehe, that reminds me of one wetnote page I found floating in sink discarded. It went something like this:


Should we just go up and get rid of it?
Ppl are bound to be there still…
I try to hide it. We get up and stick it in the trunk??
It’s too big to hide. Did you press the trigger yet?
Can’t we hang it on the line?

Last line was met with a lot of head shaking as I was not going to abandon the item. We came up, sneaking around a lot of people and deposited our treasure into the trunk. It was a big honking revolver we found on the bottom... I so wanted to show it to the little boys who were staring eyes wide at the cool scuba gear

 

[philmayer]

Mine has all sorts of useless info. Things I've screwed up, things I've learned, fish I saw, people who irritated me -- no names --, site info, etc.

Pretty boring stuff.

 

[Rhone Man]

There has to be an amusing "he said" / "she said" joke to be written about what went into the dive log.

Post #377 on this page could be a suitable template: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/hu...953-post-your-pretty-funny-stuff-here-38.html

 

[DOkie]

If I knew nothing else about you, your logbook entries alone would tell me that you're a female (even sans references to a husband).

In general (yes, I know ... there are exceptions) ... guys write statistics in their log book ... gals write stories, often with accompanying diagrams, stickers and other forms of visual aids.

I love reading Cheng's dive log ... it's an historical novel of our dives. Mine's a bunch of numbers.

On an unrelated note, I found a set of wetnotes laying on the bottom once ... turns out they belonged to someone I knew. They were interesting reading ... some entries in there from when him and his wife were on their (diving) honeymoon ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

You are correct. I'm a female... Excellent observation on the differences in logs. Come to think of it, sometimes I have to check my husbands log for info and it's pretty straight forward. Amusing how two people can see the same dive in two entirely different ways.

Husband's dive log - Site (name of wreck), depth (120 feet), water temp (39 degrees), visability (50 - 10 feet), etc. etc. etc. - Nice wreck. Investigated wheel house. Lots of white fish on aft. Zebra Mussels covering a lot. Spent time looking at articles left on deck. Saw dead fish and wife made it swim with us for a while, etc. etc. etc.

My dive log - Went out on the boat, was going to go to (wreck) but decided to go to (wreck) because dumb A** (enter name here) wanted it bouyed. Pretty hot out, good thing I packed extra sodas... Water was dark, not much vis. Wreck was ok, really wanted to try the shoe and the hat on (items referenced above on deck), chased husband with fish, he didn't think it was funny... etc. etc. etc...

We make a good dive team... ha ha

 

[ronbeau]

In one of the posts here, someone wondered what happened to the resorts, dive shops, etc., checking logs for experience. It got me thinking that if anyone requested to check my dive log, I'd die of embarrassment. Sure, I put the usual stuff in there about the dive (depth, water temp, etc.) but when it comes to writing about the dive, it always entails stuff like: (blank) had a big piece of ear wax sticking out of his ear, or I stipped down and was going to jump in the water after the bag of brats thrown by the other boat but (blank) beat me to it. Usually it's about things that I found entertaining - "chased husband with a dead fish on wreck, he wasn't too thrilled" (hates dead fish). See where I'm going with this. If anyone read my log book they'd think I'm a little off!!! Am I the only one???

I have never been asked for my dive log yet (total of 80 dives). I have been asked for my "C" card and the date of my last dive but that is it (other than the waiver questions).