How religious are you keeping your dive log?

[coralcrazed]

Originally Posted by bversteegh

I keep a directory on my laptop for each dive, with dive site name, location, date, and all my pictures from the dive. I shoot a picture of the dive briefing if the divemaster drew one. I also download the logfile from my computer. But I haven't kept a handwritten logbook for years. What does everyone else do?

very ver religious. but now I'm getting a dive watch which will do it for me. I think I will still be manually loging though not every time.

[CompuDude]

Just curious: Those of you who log your dives only with your computer: How do you track WHERE you dove, with only date, time and depth info? Can you really memorize a long list of dive locations over time and recall them significantly later, or do you just not care where you dove, only THAT you dove?

Or is it just because you only dive one location repeatedly so it's not that tough?

[DevilDiver]

I keep the written log for all dives while traveling. If I return to that location I know where I have been and witch were my favorites. I also have picked up the habbit of doodling little pictures of things I saw in my logs.
I haven't kept logs of my lake dives since 2003........... I look at these as personal practice now more than anything.

[Harshal]

I don't analyze every minute of my dive or download data from my Dive computer...... common I dive to enjoy...........
But I do like to write a log and normally include what I saw and things.

[finflippers]

I log every dive for the date,place,depth,bottom time,visibility,and total botom time to date. Most of my logs have at least something in the notes section about the dive but I have been lazy on occasion and not entered anything in there.

[BuzzGA]

I still keep a written record. It' s actually a good way to pass the time during the surface interval and when I flip back through the book it brings up some good memories

[Foo2]

I'm still a diving newbie...so I still religiously fill out my dive log....all 10 of them

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by bversteegh

I keep a directory on my laptop for each dive, with dive site name, location, date, and all my pictures from the dive. I shoot a picture of the dive briefing if the divemaster drew one. I also download the logfile from my computer. But I haven't kept a handwritten logbook for years. What does everyone else do?

Most all of my dives are at sites I've done many times. I don't need to write much about a place I see every few weeks. Periodically I'll update my hand written paper logbook from data on the computer and some notes about who was there.

I'm thinking about moving to a computer based system because a lot of what I'd like to know are things like "How often is the viz better then 15 feet at (say) the "120 reef". With 50 or 100 dives there I have decent statistics.

I have four books filed out and I'm weeks and weeks behind in.

[scubafreak]

I fill in my logbook after every dive. I also have my dives logged on my PC as backup in case I lose my logbook.

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by CompuDude

Just curious: Those of you who log your dives only with your computer: How do you track WHERE you dove, with only date, time and depth info? Can you really memorize a long list of dive locations over time and recall them significantly later, or do you just not care where you dove, only THAT you dove?

Or is it just because you only dive one location repeatedly so it's not that tough?

I can remember for a while and I get some really good hints from the day of the week and depth and time. So if it was a Sunday and a long shallow dive I know it's the one reef but if I dropped straight down into 65 feet it's another place. Weekday nights after woork are all pretty muc the same place. If I did three dives in a row it was almost certainly off a boat and not the beach. The local wrecks are at 120 and 70 feet.