Do DMs log their dives?

[Diving Dubai]

For my log, my preference is only dives for longer than 15 mins and deeper than 4m. I record DSD’s out of interest, but generally if its a short dive, I combine the dive hours with the previous (or next) dive. My dive number count reflects substantive dives, not bounces.

Everyone is different

 

[Mark IV]

While fiddle-farting around in Cancun back in the early 90's, my brother and I decided from the get-go that we wanted to be working divers, so we logged dives dilligently from dive #1. I'm sure he stopped logging after hitting Divemaster and going to work, but I kept logging well into being an instructor. Then one day I needed a new logbook, and just said, 'screw that', and never logged again. That was sometime in the mid 90's, somewhere shy of 2000 dives, and I continued working in the W. Caribbean for several more years, and got cave certified, so I have no clue how many dives I might have (but somewhere in that 2500-4999 estimation, surely not any more).
As I recall, very few working divers that I knew, bothered with logging dives.

 

[TMHeimer]

I'v seen guys log pool dives and some who have never seen active log since training.

These were DMs?

 

[TMHeimer]

While fiddle-farting around in Cancun back in the early 90's, my brother and I decided from the get-go that we wanted to be working divers, so we logged dives dilligently from dive #1. I'm sure he stopped logging after hitting Divemaster and going to work, but I kept logging well into being an instructor. Then one day I needed a new logbook, and just said, 'screw that', and never logged again. That was sometime in the mid 90's, somewhere shy of 2000 dives, and I continued working in the W. Caribbean for several more years, and got cave certified, so I have no clue how many dives I might have (but somewhere in that 2500-4999 estimation, surely not any more).
As I recall, very few working divers that I knew, bothered with logging dives.

I don't have your experience re number of dives, but I know paper log pages costs money.

 

[stretchthepenn]

I don't have your experience re number of dives, but I know paper log pages costs money.

Paper log pages are actually fairly cheap if you do your own. I design my own log, and I just got a stack printed at Staples: 50 double-sided sheets of 8.5" x 5.5" glossy paper. I had to do my own three-hole punching, but they cost me all of $10.02.

 

[TMHeimer]

Paper log pages are actually fairly cheap if you do your own. I design my own log, and I just got a stack printed at Staples: 50 double-sided sheets of 8.5" x 5.5" glossy paper. I had to do my own three-hole punching, but they cost me all of $10.02.

Yeah for sure. Just XEROX a bought page. '80s technology.
But I have a stash of originals I bought at the shop with the DM discount.

 

[Mark IV]

Yeah for sure. Just XEROX a bought page. '80s technology.

Yep, good idea, or even run with a plain old spiral-bound notebook. I used to use these vinyl covered logbooks, that cost about $7 (and held about 160 dives, 5 per page side,IIRC). I liked the way they were laid out, and not too big or small, but it seemed like i needed a new one every few weeks, and I didn't see any reason to keep logging dives at this point.
But i do wish I'd kept a log of all my sea time. A yacht captain I used to work for even recommended that, but I couldn't be bothered .

 

[stuartv]

I log all my dives, including in the pool (thought I don't count those in my "dive count"). By "logging it" I mean I download them from my dive computer into my electronic log. For dives with customers (i.e. students, so far, in my case), I put the students' names in my electronic log (on the dives where I was with them), just because it seems like a good idea to try and keep a record of who I worked with/for and when, and have it directly connected to my computer's logged dive profile.