Using a dive log book in your scuba diving

Scuba divers use dive log book to keep record of the dives they have done and also helps with many other purposes including safety. When start doing scuba dive, dive log book helps you to keep track of air consumption, weighting, and use of equipment. By using a dive log you can see how you improve and match with different diving conditions underwater. Specially for the new divers, most of the dive centers will ask to see previous records of scuba diving. So using a dive log book you can keep all the records and show it to them. 

A dive log book is more of a scuba diving journal for you.  Many experience scuba divers may not use a dive log anymore as they have gained enough skills and understanding about their diving. But still a large number of scuba divers use dive log that helps them remember great dives and best diving spots. In a two weeks scuba diving holiday you may spend over a day underwater. So it’s a great thing to be able to open a dive log book and check what you have done and how much you have improved as a scuba diver. Even for experienced divers, sometimes it’s ideal to use a dive log as they can monitor all the new tools they are using and how effective the tools are when diving in the sea. The safety part of the dive log is also something that even an experienced diver can’t avoid. Here are few things that a dive log contains:

Dive log header: This section keeps the basic information like date, time and location of the dive.

Dive log profile: This is the most important part for safety side. The records it keeps are bottom time, the maximum depth you reached and the air you entered and left with. Many recreational divers will have records like average depth, the time you entered, and your nitrogen diffusion levels before and after a dive. 

Some of the other things a log book may have are equipments used, dive site conditions, comments, photos, marine life encounters, site map and log validation. It’s always a good idea to use dive logs for all sorts of reasons. There are many websites on the web for doing that. So make it a better scuba diving experience using a dive log book.