On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:42:31PM +1000, Rick Walsh wrote: > Sorry to revive a 10 day old conversation, but I was sorting through > old (paper) mail and just read something interesting in PADI's > Undersea Journal. > > On 19 September 2014 07:53, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > A completely different approach would be to work with the certification > > agencies to have them introduce computer dive logging as an alternative to > > the paper log book. As you learned in Brazil that's an interesting > > challenge as many of them are very much into this whole "you sign your > > logbook entry and your buddy or the dive guide / dive shop signs as well > > to make it 'valid'". If we can come up with a way to do THAT with > > Subsurface and have it be recognized by PADI or CMAS or SDI/TDI or GUE > > or... now that would be a game changer. > > > > Maybe the game is already changing. PADI's professional magazine, the > Undersea Journal (2nd quarter 2014, p108), discusses changes to > procedures relating to the instructor signing training dives. It > notes that a signature is not required for a digital log. The > relavent information is: date, time, location, depth, profile, > instructor name and PADI number, course and name of dive. All of this > is supported by Subsurface.
Definitely. And we could easily make this more explicit by having a "how to log a PADI training dive" example in the manual and on the web site. > The definitive text concerns changes to the Paperwork and > Administrative Procedures section of General Standards and Procedures > in the PADI Instructor Manual. It reads: > "Please add the underlined text to the Documentation section number 5: > 5. Have student divers log open water dives. Sign each diver's log > <u>(unless it is a digital log)</u>" So Subsurface is indeed valid. Cool. > Another idea if we want to work with PADI. They have a online dive > logging and sharing website, scubaearth.com (and I'm sure other > similar sites exist). I can't say I've been inclined to sign up or > try to use it, but I saw nothing in their promotional video or FAQ > saying they supported downloading information from dive computers. > They might see that as too difficult for them to support directly > seeing there are so many different computers and formats out there. > But if they could read the subsurface HTML export, or the XML file, > maybe they'd be interested. That is a very cool idea. I assume that several people here are PADI instructors... do we happen to have a PADI Master Instructor or even a Course Director on the list? That might make it easier to reach out to PADI. I will ask a good friend who is an SDI and TDI master instructor to try and get me in contact with them. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
