Number of Dives Logged

[chinacat46]

I don't really care about the whole logging issue. What I care is that the numbers are inconsistent. Here are the categories

0-24
25-50
51-100
101-500
500-1000
1000+

So what group am I in if I have 500 dives am I 101-500 or 500-1000?
Also think the groups should end on 49, 99, 499, 999 to be consistent with the first group which ends on 24.

[thesmoothdome]

This discussion is pretty amusing. #'s don't = experience, but neither does knowledge. I can read all about skydiving before I do it, but it's not like I can or should be giving advice on it. There's a big difference between understanding theories and having personal experience with a given circumstance. I don't care how many dives a person has, but rather their experience in the given situation.

When I did my IE back in 1992, we went off the beach at Corona Del Mar. The waves were in the 6-8 foot range. I had always found conditions like that fun (not anymore ), but I could see the tension etched on the faces of my fellow candidates. Some opted not to make the entry, while others tried and failed. In their own way, I'm sure they're very qualified divers, for the conditions they were trained in. Would I want them teaching in California conditions? No. Not until they gain the practical experience to handle what the conditions out here can throw at them. Unfortunately, there's no number that can quantify that.

[Zyxistal]

Originally Posted by chinacat46

So what group am I in if I have 500 dives am I 101-500 or 500-1000?

Neither, just go ahead and dive #501 to avoid confusion.

[elijahb]

Originally Posted by Zyxistal

Neither, just go ahead and dive #501 to avoid confusion.

I think that is what most people do

[Mycroft]

Interesting dscussion, now to throw some monkey wrenches into the works.

My current count is just 130 dives over 10 years (next month). But this includes dives in many conditions, and some years were lean and others long. I never went 6 months between dives, though I came close once.

I have multiple dives in the pacific.
I have overhead experience.
I have been trained through rescue to Master Diver level.
I am still working on Cavern training.
I have a lot of dives in the caribean.
My dives range from 59 degrees on up.
I have 2 dives in a drysuit.
I have one self rescue under my belt.
I have one OOA rescue in an overhead environment to my credit.
I was rescued twice.

I was around 90 dives or so that I started to really feel comfortable in the water - in the middle of my first liveaboard trip.

My self recue was dive 13. Does this show experince or following the training? First time I was rescued I made some mistakes and ended up in the water with no mask and only one fin - but didn't panic. The second time was in kelp for the first time. I needed help getting out of it.

The rescue I did in an overhead. Am I glad I had over 100 dives behind me at that time! My buddy reached for my reg and I was ready for that.

Bottom line is that I don't offer a lot of advice anyway, other than to list things when people ask. Or I almost alway couch it in terms of what worked for me, not an absolute.

Of course, I am a wierdo anyway, still using film cameras underwater.

And I will always answer questions about uwatec computers, inside and out. Why, because even diving them, I also studied the computers thouroghly and can decipher their raw data.