Just a casual question. What do you consider the requirements to log a dive? The question came up the other day at the LDS. Back when I got certified only the ocean dives counted. Just after that PADI started making noises about counting the pool dives as well. Talking at the LDS it appears this never happened. I remember the rational back then was two fold. First was marketing on their part. Sooner students logged a dive the better. Second was that if a student, or anyone else, is underwater, wearing scuba gear and breathing air from a scuba tank then that was a scuba dive.
Does where you're diving make a difference?
Many students don't use a pool for their confined water work. When you are in a confined water, but it's actually a lake, quarry, ocean, do those dives count toward logged dives?
Does how long you under the water make a difference?
My buddy lost a fin during a dive. We know where it is. After a surface interval of an hour I go back and get it. It's in 60' of water, but Im only under the water for a total of about 5 minutes. Is that a dive?
If you're in a pool, for an hour doing an in-water repair of some kind is that a "dive"?
Does how deep you are make a difference?
I was under a boat, on scuba, at about 5' doing a repair on a pranged prop for a couple of hours. Was this a dive to log? I did a night dive, laying in the grass along the shore for about 2 hours watching sea horses at about 6'. (I actually fell asleep for that one for a few minutes, according to my dive buddy). Is that a dive?
Thoughts?
Does where you're diving make a difference?
Many students don't use a pool for their confined water work. When you are in a confined water, but it's actually a lake, quarry, ocean, do those dives count toward logged dives?
Does how long you under the water make a difference?
My buddy lost a fin during a dive. We know where it is. After a surface interval of an hour I go back and get it. It's in 60' of water, but Im only under the water for a total of about 5 minutes. Is that a dive?
If you're in a pool, for an hour doing an in-water repair of some kind is that a "dive"?
Does how deep you are make a difference?
I was under a boat, on scuba, at about 5' doing a repair on a pranged prop for a couple of hours. Was this a dive to log? I did a night dive, laying in the grass along the shore for about 2 hours watching sea horses at about 6'. (I actually fell asleep for that one for a few minutes, according to my dive buddy). Is that a dive?
Thoughts?