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Just read/skimmed through to see if I already posted on this same old thread with slightly new title. Dives that "count" are those you need for taking a certain course, thus those that are accepted by the of instructor of said course. Other dives count if you want them to. I agree with most in that pool never counts (except MAYBE that big 100' deep one somewhere in Europe--I'm on the fence there). I use 5 mins. as minimum surface interval to divide dives and count surfacing and not hitting land as one dive. Think I have counted as little as 13 mins. as a dive and as shallow as 4-10 feet. And yes, hours may count more than total dives, but that can depend too--what kind of dives, conditions, depths are some of those dives that go into those hours? So of course it really doesn't matter what you count. Just remember it's a race to 500 and I'm almost there. Anything past 500 doesn't count as being better than me. Because I said so and those are my rules.