"Logging Dives" Who - What - When - Where - Why - How

what's up guys this run again from lay kickers good memory can't tell by the video title down below this video is gonna be on logging dives and there's several things that we're going to discuss first of all what is a dive we're gonna look at three different sources or three different definitions of a dive and kind of let you discuss it down below in the comments what you agree or disagree with as far as what a dive is number two we're going to talk a little bit about logging dives and should you be logging your dives and then the last topic of course we're going to talk about what information should go in your dialogue so to start with let's look at three different definitions here of what a dive is now we are just simply going to be talking about scuba diving not hardhat diving or surface supply air diving or even free diving for that matter we're specifically gonna make this discussion on scuba diving alone now according to Webster's dictionary they say that to engage in the sport or activity of swimming underwater using an air tank and a special breathing machine strapped to the body pretty clear-cut to me you're underwater you're breathing you have some type of special breathing machine and it's strapped to your body let's look at Wikipedia real quick says a form of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus which is completely independent of surface supply to breathe underwater that to me a little bit more clear-cut it talks about doing some type of underwater diving you know we got several tops free diving scuba diving hardhat diving surface supplied diving but some type of underwater diving where a diver is using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus there's the acronym for scuba guys self-contained underwater breathing apparatus which is completely independent of surface applied to breathe underwater once again we're talking about scuba diving we're not going to be talking about surface supplied air so let's look at a third opinion real quick or a third definition and this actually comes from an instructor manual from one of the prominent training agencies it says to cry as a logged I for a course requirement the dive takes place in open water and specific information about a dive such as date time location depth profile etc is recorded now we'll make a note there it says four course requirements so let's call this a training dive and not just a scuba dive it's gonna be a little bit different because it's clear-cut what information must go in and what is logged here is or what is the definition of that particular training Davio's now I am gonna throw a little kicker in here I'm gonna give you a fourth definition and this is my personal opinion of what a scuba dive is so in bronze personal opinion it's anytime you are breathing some type of compressed gas okay under more than 1.0 atmospheres of pressure and the risk of some type of Barrow trauma such as pressure related injuries exist to me that is a scuba dive so guys there's four different definitions or four different opinions of what a scuba dive is let me know down below what your definition is and whether you agree with Webster's Wikipedia that training agency or me run so now that we've kind of looked at four different definitions of what a scuba diver is let's talk a little bit about should you be logging your dives now there's a lot of good benefits to log into your dives such as you can keep track of your Sakharine you can kind of keep track of what gear you use in different types of environments so if you're diving cold water you got a seven mil and you put in all that information about your weights well the next time you get in cold water with seven mil you can go back to that dive and know exactly what weight to wear or maybe that there's hazards on a particular dive and if you go a while without diving in that particular area you can go back through your logbook and look at those hazards and know what to do when you're underwater how to stay out of that area you know log and dive is also good if you are taking multiple classes and you've got to have prerequisites you know having a logbook is really good as far as going back and showing those prerequisites it does show an experience for you for your instructors into future that you have experienced doing certain things as you're taking certain classes so there's a lot of good reasons of why you should log a dive let's talk a little bit about why you shouldn't log a dive and this is a topic that doesn't really get discussed much you know if you're on the scuba forum such as scuba board comm maybe here on YouTube or even in your dive club or your local dive shop most of the time that'll tell you log and I've always long enough but they never tell you when not to log a dive and I think one of the reasons they don't really discuss that is because we really don't know when not to log a dive now based off my definition alone you should log any dive if you're breathing compressed gas under more than 1.0 atmospheres where there's a chance of Barrow trauma now based off that definition alone to me that would include confined water environments even such as the swimming pool now before any argument jumps up I will go ahead and tell you no I do not log my pool dives but you know we train students that you can get an air embolism you can get decompression sickness even in a swimming pool and if that's the case in a barrow trauma situation could occur why couldn't you log that pool dive so whether you decide to log your pool dives are not completely up to you I'm okay with it but I will tell you personally I do not log my pool dies now let's continue on a little bit and let's talk about the third topic at hand what information should go into dive well according to the training agency for a training dive to be legitimate or to meet standards it clearly states date time location depth profile and etc that etc can be anything from what gear you used how much weight you wore what you saw what your buddy's name was stuff like that is very important to go in there a little bit about what information I personally put in my dive logs and at the end of the video I also talked a little bit about how I personally log dives well some of the information I put is some of the most important information such as depth in time one of the things that divers have to worry about of course is our saturation of nitrogen and the way that we determined that is how deep we are how long were there whether you use a dive computer or you use dive tables to plan your dive put that information in a log book at the end depth and time will also help you or allow you to be able to determine how much nitrogen we saturated our body with same thing with the surface interval if you log it in between your dives you'll be able to calculate how much nitrogen you've bled off whether you're using a table or a computer and how much residual nitrogen you have before you start that second or consecutive dive so to me depth and time are very very important now some other information that I like to put in an error course is starting air pressure and ending air pressure because with that information that gives me one of the variables I need for calculate my surface air consumption rate now the other two variables there of course being depth and time I've already got in there so with air use depth and Tom I can calculate my sac rate or surface air consumption rate so to me that is some of the most important information that must be in your dialog once again this is just my opinion in the matter now some other good information of course is what gear you used what exposure system used how much weight you used some fun information of course would be geographical location was it freshwater saltwater what type of dive was it was a wreck dive drift dive cave dive stuff like that but you know some other good information is of course your buddies information his name what his certification level is stuff like that is important as well just in my opinion it's not quite as important as depth time and air used things like that so guys that's just some of the information I'll personally like to put it in a dive let me know down below in the comments what you put in your dialogues now I'm gonna throw a special little endian in here I want to let you know personally how I log dives for many many years I used to use those hard log books and uh you know I write in all that information and for several years I would use a three-ring binder with just plain old paper and I'll draw out my dive probe and I brought that and I've not actually done that in probably 10 to 15 years I have switched over to the digital age whether I'm using a downloaded app on my phone or I'm using a training agency's app you know either one works good it has all the fill-in-the-blank information that I need so I can put that in there but that's still not quite how I log it today I actually use technology to my advancement as far as logging dives basically what I do is I take my dive computer's whether it's my wrist mount or my console computer I plug it to my home computer and I pre download all that information and it puts it into a profile for me that's basically a fill in the blank that I don't even have to worry about then I can go back and re study those profiles to get such things as Sacre or in v-ray I can actually put it into a spreadsheet and see exactly how many cold water dives idea colder and say sixty degrees I can see how many deep dives I did deeper in sixty feet I can actually organize that information simply by downloading my computer's information into my home computers so guys I'm glad to tell you I do not personally log dives on paper anymore all my stuff's done digitally you know when you love dies we talked a little bit earlier about why you should log it out what's the good purposes in or whether it's for future training classes you can show experience you know maybe you meet that buddy out there that you know he's an insta buddy and you want to learn more about him well you can validate his his stories if you will or his training experience by simply going through his logbook instructors do it all the time when we take on a new student we can validate simply by their logbook now yeah we do have to take them afterward but for training purposes a lot of times in their student profiles we must have some type of documentation even if it's taking their logbook picking out a dive scanning it and put it in their student folder sometimes that's what we have to do to validate their experience level well for me I just keep a digital download it's based in a spreadsheet profile and it's downloaded from my computer that personally how I log dives how you log it's going to be completely up to you what dives you log it's gonna be completely up to you the definition of a dive once again it's going to be completely up to you but guys let me know I want this to be a very big discussion I want to see a lot of comments down below comment to me come in to each other if you want to shoot a response video that's definitely tag me in it because I want to know what you consider a dive should you log that dive and what information you put in the dive itself guys I really appreciate you watching this video if you've got any questions comments or concerns put it down below if you like this video smash that like button for me but guys as always make sure you follow us on Instagram and Twitter like us on Facebook pin us on Pinterest subscribe to us here on YouTube and as always guys we appreciate your business

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Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2017