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You're confusing that with collecting as many different c-cards from your agency as you can.I thought dive logbooks were for collecting as many different stamps from DCs and boats as you can =D
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You're confusing that with collecting as many different c-cards from your agency as you can.I thought dive logbooks were for collecting as many different stamps from DCs and boats as you can =D
I haven't logged a dive since my AOW course. If I go on to Rescue and PADI DM would I actually have to log those past dives to finish the courses even though the instructors in my area all know I have way more than enough required dives. I just don't see writing down each dive in a book as important.
Ok good to know. I have recorded all my dives and can back it up with my dive computer log which is downloadable. I guess the question is, how do agencies, charters etc. ultimately verify a logged dive if they require them. I'm only 15 dives in. So keeping track of my diving is perhaps more important than the more experienced. So I want to get this aspect right from the start. Also I have done dozens of pool dives. Can I log them? I done a dive where the party we were with got lost within 5 mins of descending due to vis. It was abandoned. Is that a logged dive?
Paul
Tr3a... You are correct in saying that the situation exists where you just sign the release and get on the boat, that is true more outside the US than in. Most of the time I'm asked if I have completed a dive within the last year or so. To that I pass a printout of my computer dive log that they can keep and move on. You are not going to dive the Speigle Grove, Vandenburg or Oriskany without them questioning you. Same goes for the Caymans, at least with Red Sail and Ocean Frontiers. I was never really good at keeping paper logs in the first place, and they can get wet or "lost" (I know they are in the attic storage somewhere). I will sometimes download a log and annotate a dive or location if I want to track it, But other than that, I just keep the logs downloaded to not lose the info on the PDC when the memory gets full.