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My personal restriction is more than 10 foot depth and no less than 20 minutes. I will not log anything that was less than 20 minutes. And, of course, no pools.
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Greg - 4/07/2014 8:42 AM 
I was always taught that it has to be at least 15 feet for 15 mins...confined water environments like a pool don’t count.
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For shallow dives I hear most instructors say 20 minutes. For deep dives, 20 minutes could be one minute too long ;-)
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Agree with Greg; I was taught for teaching/certification purposes it was 15x15.
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Think of your log as a journal or diary, if you did something stupid to end the dive early, log it as a learning experience :) Don’t try to forget it!
Pools don’t count
The time I rescued an outboard in Labrador from the bottom of the bay that was freezing over was logged! Without real thermal protection there was no way I was going to last 15 minutes but it was a learning experience!
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I agree with everyone here except when I’m assisting an instructor and I have to handle the traffic of several students in a pool, my bottom time can easily get to be 30 minutes or so. that dive gets logged, but it gets logged as a pool training dive.
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Every dive will have something to offer so every dive is a dive but whether not you log it is up to you.
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Fully concur with Progrower, but will also log a pool dive if it includes some kind of self-training challenge like doffing tank and regulator, swimming 30’ underwater, popping up for a deep breath, then back and donning the gear, etc.; maneuvers that got me certified in the first place. Where I live, there are not many readily available places to get wet when the itch strikes, so I’ll occasionally take advantage of a local YMCA with the mindset of getting a good workout and honing dive skills.
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Greg - 4/08/2014 9:26 AM
If you’re training for a professional certification (ie: Dive Master, Instructor)...there are a minimum number of dives that you need logged. In order for the logged dives to "count" towards the minimum required for these certifications, I was always told they need to be at least 15 feet for 15 minutes...and pool dives do not count.
If you’re just keeping track of your dives for personal enrichment, then log everything that has value...if you want to remember it, if you learned something new, if you want to remember the dive buddies you dove with, etc.
And don’t forget to use DiveBuddy to log your dives :) Here is my dive log: divebuddy.com/divelogs_blog.aspx?MemID=1
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This came from a discussion at my shop along the same lines as your last comment Greg. I was always told it was the length of he dive and not depth. If you are doing recovery work in 10 feet of water but down for 25 or even 55 minutes does that count? I say yes. Also as a divemaster working with instructors I am constantly underwater in the pool and I log dives in the pool over 30 minutes. I was lead to believe that any time you could suffer DCS (such as repetitive dives to 15 feet for 30 minutes with no S.I.T in between) should be logged. 4-5 dives in the pool might put you there. Far fetched I know but just an example. From the answers I’ve seen here there is NO definitive answer to this question as every answer is unique and correct. I don’t log down and up dives. i.e. hooking in a buoy line or setting up for pool dives. I don’t log any dive under 10 minutes no matter the depth. I don’t log free dives. I log any dive that I believe has a residual nitrogen loading time. A dive to 15 feet for 30 minutes for example has that as does a 10 minute dive.
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Several of the tanks that I help maintain at the Georgia Aquarium are less than 10 feet deep. Some of my dives are less than 30 minutes. Everything I do gets logged. They have to log them per OSHA regulations. If they have to log them, I think I should as well.
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From Progrower: Every dive will have something to offer so every dive is a dive but whether not you log it is up to you.
I agree 100% !!!!
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I have three pool dives logged and a couple of shorter dives because I want to track the experience they brought. I have had a couple of aborted dives for different reasons and still chose to log them for reference and equipment tracking. The way I look at it is I am not counting to prove or impress, I am counting to enjoy and learn so if I can learn something, I log it.
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