When did you lose track?

[TMHeimer]

I still log as diligently as I can make myself do, because things like what the actual currents were compared to predictions, or how I weighted myself for a given configuration and water, can be important to reference later. I'm just not very compulsive about making sure that every single dive I do gets logged, and I don't know what the total is any more. After all, I'm in the ScubaBoard 1000 - 2499 bracket, and it's unlikely I'll EVER make it out of that -- so why count?

At least you made it to 4 digits--extremely unlikely for me.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Still paper logging since 1989. Not sure why, but I just can't seem to quit.

 

[captain]

The first 20 years I never logged anything, no need to. I began erratic logging in the 80's most of the time from memory days or weeks later. Now if it is a dive of some particular significance I may log it.

 

[Stoo]

I kicked over about 5000 dives this spring, and up until that point, I kept a paper log... well just a Wetnotes book... Date, place, time, anything special.. and that was it. I've misplaced a few of them, including some I kept when I worked in the Caribbean, but it's fun looking thought them now and again....

This spring, I started to use a Shearwater computer which has a lovely log function. I am forcing myself to keep up my paper log, but I'm about 40 dives back already! I know from my real job that all things stored in 'pooters eventually get lost. So I intend to keep up my paper books!

And here's why...

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/basic-scuba-discussions/481956-40-years-later.html

 

[BRT]

Quit logging at about 100 dives sometime in the early 90's. We can do a reasonable estimate, somewhere between 4 and 600. My wife does keep track of our weights which is really useful.

 

[Scott]

I logged religiously for the first 10 years or so, then hit and miss for the next 10 or so, the last 10 I have been more diligent but not religiously.
Except I log all my tec dives, it sure came in handy when it was time for the tec instructor course and as a newer cave diver I find the information about the dives and gear selection helpful.

 

[knotical]

Didn't log for my first 20 years of (uncertified) diving. When I finally got certified, my instructor recommended keeping a log-book. About that time I started trying to remember some of my earlier dives, with only marginal fidelity.
Who was the third diver with us the day we found that old anchor? Where was it I saw that turtle with part of his shell missing? etc. I don't remember. - Bummer.

Since then I've been conscientious and it's been fun to occasionally pick up an old log (paper only) and reminisce. Usually I log interesting critters or interactions. Sometimes just a few phrases bring back much of the dive.
For training dives I also logged students, goals, etc.

 

[daniel f aleman]

Interesting comments. I stopped logging dives the day after I was certified in June, 1972 when I was 15 years-old. But, what I have done is count my dives, darn accurately too for some reason. Each January, I'll start with a new-year wall calendar and keep a running tab on the number of dives made over those twelve months. I have 41 calendars packed into several waterproof boxes. This year's calendar is on the wall in my kitchen, and I'll update the entries every two weeks or so. I will write a comment every once in a while as to an especially deep dive, or some spectacular event that happens (see my profile photo), if I dived with some unique person, or whatever. The highest dive count was in 1979 when I worked on a dive boat in the Bahamas, 634 dives; the lowest, 97 dives, in 1986, when my first daughter was born. I passed 10,000 dives in November, 2011, and have around 10,360 dives total (with ~3250 in cenotes/caves, mostly along the Mayan coast).

 

[Karibelle]

Interesting comments. I stopped logging dives the day after I was certified in June, 1972 when I was 15 years-old. But, what I have done is count my dives, darn accurately too for some reason. Each January, I'll start with a new-year wall calendar and keep a running tab on the number of dives made over those twelve months. I have 41 calendars packed into several waterproof boxes. This year's calendar is on the wall in my kitchen, and I'll update the entries every two weeks or so. I will write a comment every once in a while as to an especially deep dive, or some spectacular event that happens (see my profile photo), if I dived with some unique person, or whatever. The highest dive count was in 1979 when I worked on a dive boat in the Bahamas, 634 dives; the lowest, 97 dives, in 1986, when my first daughter was born. I passed 10,000 dives in November, 2011, and have around 10,360 dives total (with ~3250 in cenotes/caves, mostly along the Mayan coast).

To me, this is logging.

 

[Bob DBF]

I logged dives for a while when I started diving but lost interest as it was boring.

Years later, I started logging again when I took my OW class, and I did pretty well keeping up the log for a year or two, until it went down with a boat I was on one day.

When I got my computer, I started logging again. There is a need for it because I have been diving a number of different rigs and tanks. My memory is not up to keep all straight. I'll have to see how long this run goes on.



Bob