UserNameBella
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I was speaking to a PADI instructor and I told him that I was doing some practice dives to get my skills down pat before I attempt the divemaster or instructor program.
These training dives are about an hour in length and instead of looking at the nice fishies I am literally just doing things like mask removal, BCD removal and replace, swimming OOA drills ect. I honestly wish I had more time to devote to this, but so far it has been a once a week kind of thing. I was surprised how much I had forgotten in the last five months since open water class, so even if I didn't have the plans to do my divemaster I would think these are some pretty worthwhile dives.
Here is the kicker-
From what he said, I cannot, or should not log these dives as real dives. The reason being they are only in ten feet of water or less.
I have enough dives to start my dive master, so I don't need to pad my dive log book. I would like to keep track of my progress. It is pretty essential that I get these skills down before I go do my dive master because I am a complete Spaz and it takes me a long time to learn how to do things that require my brain to tell my body what to do.
Are the instructors when I do my dive master going to take one look at my dive log with all these shallow learning dives on them and think I just added stuff to my book for the heck of it? Should only log dives that are to a real depth? I could always use a separate log for shallow learning dives just to keep track of my progress if it isn't really accepted that I log these dives.
I'm sure this has been asked to death so my apologies for asking again. I just don't want the dive shop I'm doing my dive master with to take one look at my log and shake their heads at me.
These training dives are about an hour in length and instead of looking at the nice fishies I am literally just doing things like mask removal, BCD removal and replace, swimming OOA drills ect. I honestly wish I had more time to devote to this, but so far it has been a once a week kind of thing. I was surprised how much I had forgotten in the last five months since open water class, so even if I didn't have the plans to do my divemaster I would think these are some pretty worthwhile dives.
Here is the kicker-
From what he said, I cannot, or should not log these dives as real dives. The reason being they are only in ten feet of water or less.
I have enough dives to start my dive master, so I don't need to pad my dive log book. I would like to keep track of my progress. It is pretty essential that I get these skills down before I go do my dive master because I am a complete Spaz and it takes me a long time to learn how to do things that require my brain to tell my body what to do.
Are the instructors when I do my dive master going to take one look at my dive log with all these shallow learning dives on them and think I just added stuff to my book for the heck of it? Should only log dives that are to a real depth? I could always use a separate log for shallow learning dives just to keep track of my progress if it isn't really accepted that I log these dives.
I'm sure this has been asked to death so my apologies for asking again. I just don't want the dive shop I'm doing my dive master with to take one look at my log and shake their heads at me.