debajo agua
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Would you consider pool dives as "experience", and therefore, credit as a logged dive?
Logging Pool Dives
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fisheater
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Not typically.
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Pool dives do not count towards the numbers needed for some certifications. But your log is for you and keeping track of what you want. Even if it's a pool dive but you tried some new gear, new weight set up, practice some skill, that you may want to refer to later, your log is a good place to keep track of that.
koozemani
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I log pool dives for their training value or if I was trying out a new piece of gear. I do not however count these toward my total number of dives. As Enduro stared, your log is for your benefit and personal record.
You can log anything you want. If I were going to log pool dives, I'd keep them in a separate count, because when you are trying to give someone an idea of the length and breadth of your experience, I don't think they count for that at all.
Belmont
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In Montreal we have a 50 foot pool dedicated for scuba training.
I guess people could log their dives in that case.
In Belgium they have a 100 foot pool!
NEMO33.com
I guess people could log their dives in that case.
In Belgium they have a 100 foot pool!
NEMO33.com
I did not vote in your poll because it is too broad.
I am new and for now will be logging pool dives. I will do this for one because it will show that I was actually doing something during the months of limited diving here. Also being new I feel any time is the water is learning/working on your skills so that when you do hit OW you can focus on other skills. As I have more experience I doubt I will log them unless there is something specific about that session.
I will not be trying to pass of pool dives as OW dives when asked to show my experience though.
I am new and for now will be logging pool dives. I will do this for one because it will show that I was actually doing something during the months of limited diving here. Also being new I feel any time is the water is learning/working on your skills so that when you do hit OW you can focus on other skills. As I have more experience I doubt I will log them unless there is something specific about that session.
I will not be trying to pass of pool dives as OW dives when asked to show my experience though.
Guba
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While I agree with the comment, "not typically", I also stand by the statements that "it's your log...record what you want".
That said, I have two pool "dives" that I logged and count as dives. I presented a course for educators in how to use scuba diving to teach physical science concepts (pressure, Boyles Law, buoyancy, etc...). I arranged for a friend who is a scuba instructor and shop owner to host a discover scuba class specifically for the educators who took my workshop, and he asked that I assist. I did so, and I also shot video so that each teacher could show their classes exactly what they were talking and teaching about. Since it was "atypical" for me, employed different skills, and it was definitely worthy of being remembered, I chose to log them as "real" dives. I'm certain that many divers have similiar experiences.
That said, I have two pool "dives" that I logged and count as dives. I presented a course for educators in how to use scuba diving to teach physical science concepts (pressure, Boyles Law, buoyancy, etc...). I arranged for a friend who is a scuba instructor and shop owner to host a discover scuba class specifically for the educators who took my workshop, and he asked that I assist. I did so, and I also shot video so that each teacher could show their classes exactly what they were talking and teaching about. Since it was "atypical" for me, employed different skills, and it was definitely worthy of being remembered, I chose to log them as "real" dives. I'm certain that many divers have similiar experiences.
ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
Two different questions IMO.
Are Pool dives experience? Yes they are (how valuable the experience is depends on what you do in the water).
Should they be logged simply because you are breathing compressed air at "a depth"? IMO no but I personally do not care what someone logs as long as they are up front about it. I do not want to be buddied up with someone with 600 dives only to find out that 580 of them have been at 7' in a pool.
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