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strumbarn

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Hi all,
I'm hoping for some help from the collective.

I have a colleague who is about to retire who I think has a reasonable shot for the record of the most career dives. Obviously that would be one hell of a thing to present him with at his retirement, and I'd love be to do it.

I won't say how many he has documented as an industry professional and research diver, for obvious reasons.

I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer about what the record is (if there is one). So I was hoping the scuba board collective knowledge could point me in the right direction.

Thanks very much.
 
I can't comment about any current records, I have no idea. But measured how? Total Time Spent Underwater or Number of Dives Logged regardless of duration? I Imagine Total Time UW would be the most reliable metric, but how would one support their Number in an official way?
 
The Guinness Book of World Records likely has that information. It's an easy enough process. You can make an inquiry. The GBWR has SO many records that not all of them are online or published in a book. I went through the process and obtained a world record years ago.

Having gone through the process I can tell you that the reason they may decline this as a legit record is because they need CONCRETE proof, not just opinion or hearsay. I think I had to submit almost 50 items of proof, complete with testimony and first hand witnesses.

I very highly doubt a log book will count as proof. All logs will need a first hand witness to sign off on them, video proof or a job where they kept a separate physical or digital logs of his dives.

Hope that helps. Since you are in search of a world record you will need to reach out to GBWR anyways.
Good luck!
 
The Guinness Book of World Records likely has that information. It's an easy enough process. You can make an inquiry. The GBWR has SO many records that not all of them are online or published in a book. I went through the process and obtained a world record years ago.

Having gone through the process I can tell you that the reason they may decline this as a legit record is because they need CONCRETE proof, not just opinion or hearsay. I think I had to submit almost 50 items of proof, complete with testimony and first hand witnesses.

I very highly doubt a log book will count as proof. All logs will need a first hand witness to sign off on them, video proof or a job where they kept a separate physical or digital logs of his dives.

Hope that helps. Since you are in search of a world record you will need to reach out to GBWR anyways.
Good luck!

I was curious so searched Guinness online, a lot of records but none of them about number of dives or total time underwater. Their records tend to be for discrete or one time events.
 
Hi all,
I'm hoping for some help from the collective.

I have a colleague who is about to retire who I think has a reasonable shot for the record of the most career dives. Obviously that would be one hell of a thing to present him with at his retirement, and I'd love be to do it.

I won't say how many he has documented as an industry professional and research diver, for obvious reasons.

I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer about what the record is (if there is one). So I was hoping the scuba board collective knowledge could point me in the right direction.

Thanks very much.

The problem with that question is that the people in the world with the most dives probably don't log them, and if they do, probably not to the requirements of any record keeping organization.

You might be able to find the person with the biggest logbook, but I doubt that would be the person with the most dives.

Also, as mentioned upthread, you get to the point of asking what constitutes a dive. Do three pool dives count three times as much as a single dive on the Britannic? That sort of makes the record meaningless...
 
You might be able to find the person with the biggest logbook, but I doubt that would be the person with the most dives.

documented as an industry professional and research diver, for obvious reasons.

Agree this would be tough to prove. Maybe a record for the most documented dives as an industry professional and research diver. A buddy of mine has many dives he accrued as a bridge builder in his younger days, but were never documented. They just did what they had to do.
 
Pool dives don't count.
LOL!!
Diving without tanks count??
Cause I know some ocean harvesting freedivers hitting well over 1000 dives a year.
 

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