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Back in '99 we'd just eyeball the tide charts on a paper printout, but now I check the NOAA app on my phone before every dive in Puget Sound.
Has anyone else gone completely digital for their dive planning, or do you still keep a physical logbook?
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wesleyb202d agoTop Commenter
Totally get that. I still have my old logbook from my certification dive, and flipping through the water-stained pages is way cooler than scrolling through some app. You can see how my handwriting changed from nervous scribbles to actual notes over the years. That stuff just feels more real.
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bennett.evan3d ago
Actually, a paper logbook is way more reliable than any app. Batteries die and phones get wet, but a notebook full of dive notes lasts forever. It forces you to really think about the data you're writing down instead of just tapping a screen. There's a real history in those pages you can't get from a cloud folder. Going fully digital just feels like asking to lose all your records someday.
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