MINIMUM Depth to Log Dive

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I log all of my dives except my pool dives. I f soemthing happens in a pool dove then I will log it other wise I don't. I use my log as a reference. I keep up with my air consumption, Weight used, Tanks used, and so on and so forth. Thats just my 0.02

 

[Don Wray]

This is from the PADI instructor's manual:​

4. For training purposes, an

open water dive is a dive during which a student
diver spends the majority of time at a depth of at least 5 metres/15 feet​

and:​

a. breathes at least 1400 litres or 50 cubic feet of compressed gas.​

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b. remains submerged for at least 20 minutes.​

General Standards; Training Standards; Open Water Training;page 10​

I knew all this studying must be for something.​

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[Jon C]

I didn't know about the PADI 20 minute dive parameter, but I have always used 20 minutes myself. Twenty minutes can be the longest I can stand on certain dives with very cold water...or very deep. Either way, after shivering until my hands could function enough to write in my log...I feel I have the rite to call it a dive! Doesn't matter how deep at that point, but certainly under 15 feet.

Side note: My computer recycles into the next dive after a 10 minute surface interval...

 

[Buoyant1]

YES! I Hear Ye... er Thou or is it Thy?

That is too funny! I like it. A quote direct from the book of ClayJar! The first useful book on religion, or SCUBA diving.

COuld it be THINE?

 

[ba_hiker]

My rule is: I get wet, I breath compressed gas, its a dive. I count it. I count if for repetive dive purposes, and log it.

Only use for a log for me, other that as a personal record, is for the medics if I get in trouble. I want them to have a complete record.

 

[scubafool]

The only related activities underwater are snorkeling, holding your breath or drowning.

So every time that you drown, you log it as a dive? I think that that is a violation of standards, and I am going to report you.

 

[scottg_houston]

Intrigued by this thread..

Why, well I have 26 logged dives since OW, but dont consider myself a diver yet.

Why, well all but 6 were in Houston lakes and quarries,,nothing below 30 feet..

And the 6 in Mexico werent much deeper.but did have currents..

Said lady is advanced..and has rescue etc..but we have this debate, and is which I wanted to add to this post.

Point One..if I was still in Texas..I could log another heap of dives..in Lakes..and never get below 30 feet!

Point two..and this is the reason for the post..we have an invite to visit a hyperbaric chamber in Amsterdam which sounds like fun and a great learning experience.

But part of the marketing..is when we do our session in the chamber..we can actually log it as a dive!

Soo.. while I'm quite excited to get narked in a safe environment..and equally interested in what these guys have to say..I am not sure it qualifies for my dive log!

Opinons please..do I log it?

 

[dmmike]

As many of the other members have said, "Its your dive log, log what you what".

As for me, anything but a pool dive is logged. I have one dive that I did in a lagoon, it was 8 feet deep and I was in for about an hour.......

My log book is used to record what I saw, where I saw it, and when I saw it. I also log all that tech. stuff; air used, weight used, gear used, SAC rate.........

 

[shoredivr]

I logged an educational chamber "dive" to 200 ft that lasted 188 minutes IIRC. There were four of us, two buckets of water and about 8 dive computers of various makes submerged in the buckets. I spent the time comparing and recording what my 3 dive computers were doing during the ride, unaffected, of course, by any feelings of narcosis

 

[Steve_Dives]

Point two..and this is the reason for the post..we have an invite to visit a hyperbaric chamber in Amsterdam which sounds like fun and a great learning experience.

Opinons please..do I log it?

I'd record the chamber ride in my log, but I would not number it or add the time to my dive time.

I also record the pool sessions, but these are clearly marked, not numbered, and the times do not roll into the dive times. I log the pool stuff so I can remember when I last did certain drills. Plus, if I find myself in Florida in say a 11 days, my log shows I've at least had my gear on underwater and have a chance to remember how to use it!