Wantonmien
Contributor
Normal buddy and I actually thought the normal 'off the shelf' log book formats bought from PADI or similar were pretty boring format, expensive and kind of restricting with space and layout - so made a simple table on computer, printed 10 per A4 sheet on sticky back paper, with following Dive Data -
Dive Number -
Date -
Country & Place -
Dive Site -
Off Boat/Beach -
Breathing -
Weights -
Water °C -
Wearing -
Conditions -
Time in -
Time out -
Dive time -
Max Depth -
With Who ? -
Buddy/DM signature-
Special Things on Dive ?
Then bought some plain paper hard back books, to stick the printed tables in, one or two or three per book page depending how interesting the dive was, and depending on what else we want to add about the dive.
Bought an amazingly small (can fit in a shirt pocket) 'polaroid' printer - that can plug camera stright into and print off 3" x 2" (75mm x 50mm) pics, on the polaroid sticky back water proof photo paper.
So we keep - Basic data in small table as above, plus later print a couple of little pics stuck next to data from the particular dive, plus some sketches of things, compass bearings followed (if it's first time on the site) plus a few words about the place/buddies/currents and basically 'things' or little 'events' that happened on the dive.
Sometimes, a record might extend a couple of pages for a dive, or other times just the basic dive data.
More often than not, if sitting in a dive centre or with other divers logging our dives, a fellow diver or two tend to look through the log books and have often been told they are the best log books they've ever seen - and for sure we think are a perfect style record and log for all our recreational dives to look back on.
Inside front cover of Log book, also have copies of DAN contact numbers, copies of Dive Cards, and own contact details etc.
Cheers
Dive Number -
Date -
Country & Place -
Dive Site -
Off Boat/Beach -
Breathing -
Weights -
Water °C -
Wearing -
Conditions -
Time in -
Time out -
Dive time -
Max Depth -
With Who ? -
Buddy/DM signature-
Special Things on Dive ?
Then bought some plain paper hard back books, to stick the printed tables in, one or two or three per book page depending how interesting the dive was, and depending on what else we want to add about the dive.
Bought an amazingly small (can fit in a shirt pocket) 'polaroid' printer - that can plug camera stright into and print off 3" x 2" (75mm x 50mm) pics, on the polaroid sticky back water proof photo paper.
So we keep - Basic data in small table as above, plus later print a couple of little pics stuck next to data from the particular dive, plus some sketches of things, compass bearings followed (if it's first time on the site) plus a few words about the place/buddies/currents and basically 'things' or little 'events' that happened on the dive.
Sometimes, a record might extend a couple of pages for a dive, or other times just the basic dive data.
More often than not, if sitting in a dive centre or with other divers logging our dives, a fellow diver or two tend to look through the log books and have often been told they are the best log books they've ever seen - and for sure we think are a perfect style record and log for all our recreational dives to look back on.
Inside front cover of Log book, also have copies of DAN contact numbers, copies of Dive Cards, and own contact details etc.
Cheers