Heard a guy at the dock say he never logs his decompression stops

I was fueling up in Morgan City last week and overheard a diver bragging about skipping his stop logs to save time. He said, 'The computer does the math, why write it down?' That really got to me because my old supervisor always said the log is your last line of defense if something goes wrong. It's not just about the math, it's a record for the medic if you get bent. How many of you still keep a written dive log with all your stops?

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miles9921mo ago

That "last line of defense" thing is exactly why I still log everything.

nelson.daniel1mo ago

Used to think logging was just extra work. Seeing how it saved a team from a major outage changed my mind completely. Now I get why it's the last line of defense.

joel_young1mo ago

My dive buddy in Key West got bent on a 130 foot wreck dive last year. The ER doc asked for his log before they even put him in the chamber, and having those written stops made all the difference. I'm with @nelson.daniel on this, it's not extra work, it's just part of the dive. That logbook is cheap insurance. Skipping it is like trusting your backup computer will never fail.