LariatAdvance
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What does one do when one has been certified for 15 years, has about 70 dives and say 40 hours of bottom time and loses a log book over the years?
Do you just start over from scratch with "zero" dives and "zero" bottom time in the new log book, or just carry on in the new book by bringing the "unverifiable" data over from log book #1?
Seems like when you show up to the dive shop with a new log book with zero and zero, you get the "Oh, we require a minimum of 5 "verified" dives and at least 2 boat dives" thing, regardless of how many decades you've been certified. Then on the other hand if you showed up with log book #2 and not log book #1, it would be just too easy for a person to make up all the data they claim carried over to log book #2.
I think the "money trail" is they want you to go thru their "Refre$her Cour$e" so you can accumulate the check out dives and boat dives as the "verified" dives all over again. Obviously common sense would dictate if you were actually certified, you woulda at least done the check out dives and required boat dives already for the certification or you wouldn't be certified.
I'm not sure what the PADI requirement is, but my dive shop does several check out dives on the rock jetty and then two dives from the boat in the ocean to certify you.
Do I just start out at zero again or do I carry on in log book #2 with data I can't prove.
(not that that really means anything. Anyone could fake a log book and sign some nonexistent dive buddy signature). I just hate to lose all that bottom time. It's like losing your high school trophies when your house burns down. LOL
Do you just start over from scratch with "zero" dives and "zero" bottom time in the new log book, or just carry on in the new book by bringing the "unverifiable" data over from log book #1?
Seems like when you show up to the dive shop with a new log book with zero and zero, you get the "Oh, we require a minimum of 5 "verified" dives and at least 2 boat dives" thing, regardless of how many decades you've been certified. Then on the other hand if you showed up with log book #2 and not log book #1, it would be just too easy for a person to make up all the data they claim carried over to log book #2.
I think the "money trail" is they want you to go thru their "Refre$her Cour$e" so you can accumulate the check out dives and boat dives as the "verified" dives all over again. Obviously common sense would dictate if you were actually certified, you woulda at least done the check out dives and required boat dives already for the certification or you wouldn't be certified.
I'm not sure what the PADI requirement is, but my dive shop does several check out dives on the rock jetty and then two dives from the boat in the ocean to certify you.
Do I just start out at zero again or do I carry on in log book #2 with data I can't prove.
(not that that really means anything. Anyone could fake a log book and sign some nonexistent dive buddy signature). I just hate to lose all that bottom time. It's like losing your high school trophies when your house burns down. LOL