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At 6000 dives and 4800 hours I quit logging. I download my Shearwater now and again.
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You as are compulsive as I am. I have 180 dives between 100 and 109 feet, 626 entirely solo dives, 1,132 drift dives...and I have 2,005 total dives, 1995.25 hours, 59.4 min per dive. I have my RMV for the last 1535 divesMy main dive log is a spreadsheet I developed. Every single dive I've ever done is logged there. I have some on older paper log books, some on Shearwater Cloud, but ALL of my dives are logged on my spreadsheet. On it I track dive number, dive duration, max depth, average depth, SAC/RMV, temperature, equipment, buddy (or solo), and location/site/operator. I calculate my per dive average dive time both overall and per year. I also track my min, max, and average SAC/RMV.
In terms of judging experience, I find the number of logged dives, diversity of conditions, and average dive time all helpful. One of my past instructors put a big emphasis on average dive time. He used that to gauge your progressing experience as much or more so than logged dives. He wanted to see his advanced students and certainly those he took on for technical training to show a progression of lengthening dive times as they gained experience and competence.
How about an instructor with no cold water experience? Or for that matter no warm water experience?It's common to see divers with no fresh water experience, even no pool dives during courses, as courses were taken in confined waters.
It's not common to see divers with no sea water experience, though still possible.
But a dive instructor with no sea water experience ?
The DM who put me with beginners did so because I stupidly let him think I was a beginner. He did not know I was a professional.Not officially asked. More explicitly told; as per your original pair that you were 'told' to dive with.
He got it of course because he took the Instructor Course and all it's pre-requisites in fresh water, maybe all in that one quarry complex.Diver's experience should be assessed by the number of dives, the hours underwater, the sites dived, the different scenarios seen, the certification level, and so on.
I met a dive instructor some years ago that had only dived in fresh water in a quarry complex (several quarries in cascade). He had no sea water experience. How could he get that instructor cert ?