How important is your log book?

[jenaddyman23]

i love my logbook! its nice to read them once in a while and remember the dives! id be gutted if i lost any of my logs!
ive only been asked for it once but its always in the car when i go diving!

 

[slackercruster]

I've got 70 something dives. My wife does a good job with logging, drawing pictures etc. It is nice to read my wife's detailed logs years later to refresh what we saw on the dive. I also like logs to remind me how much weight to wear with different setups.

Was thinking of going to a single line log as I'm lazy with writing. Talked with some divers that had thousands of dives and some quit logs and some just use a single line log.

 

[slackercruster]

Mine is pretty important to me. That is why I back it up with my other files. On the other hand I don't see the point of a paper logbook with cutesy stamps.

I think stamps encourage newbies and make things more official. One shop even had a shark stamp for the shark feeding dive.

 

[robint]

I have 400+ dives and still log them all. My dive log has removeable pages so I only carry with me the last 75-100 or so, the rest are in my filecabinet. I refer to my log often, checking to see how much weight I used, water temp, wetsuit, what I saw at a place, what I liked or didn't like at a dive destination..... the list goes on and on of reasons why I log. I also keep a website with trip reports, photos, and videos.... I need to refer to my log when I return from a trip to do that.

I also refer to it often for chats here on SB. People ask questions about where to find a particular fish or what water temps are at a destination at a certain time of year, etc. I can pull out my log and tah dah.... I know the answer for them.


robin

 

[Drum]

In the days before cert cards log books were your "passport"; they proved your qualification/experience. We now (luckily) have C cards. But log books are like old photo albums; hard to keep at the time but invaluable for looking back at in years to come.