It is much more than just a logbook for memories of your scuba diving adventures! It is also a quick reference guide with a series of checklists on critical components of scuba diving and, more precisely, learning to dive. It is a logbook and mini-handbook that puts you in charge of your own underwater adventures so that you start on the right fin as a scuba diver for a lifetime of legendary underwater adventures, with: - A Detailed List of Skills to Master With Self-Assessment to Track Your Progress - A List of Dive Gear to Buy or Rent - Guidelines on Figuring Out The Real Cost of Your Open Water Diver Course - Your Diver Creed The selection criteria come with questions and red flags to ensure you get safety, performance & fun with: - The Best Dive Instructor For You - A Safe & Reliable Dive Center - Quality For Air & Nitrox Fills - A Safe & Fun Dive Boat - A Green, Environmentally-Friendly Dive Operator or Instructor This SPF Starter Logbook will support you during your PADI Open Water Diver Course or any other scuba diving certification course from any dive training agency. Your list of skills to master as an open-water diver comes with a self-evaluation scale to determine your readiness to be an autonomous diver. This list of basic scuba diving skills will help you make sure your instructor does not short-change you and that you get everything you need for safety, performance & fun while scuba diving. And then, yes! It is also a logbook. But a special one! Its clear, light, open, flexible design on 6” x 9” (15.2 cm x 22.8 cm) pages lets you write the notes you want to track your progress and keep memories of these amazing dives! You get scuba diving logbook pages for your first 100 dives with unique attention to buoyancy which is something you will gradually master with the information you will collect on these logbook pages. There is also a self-debriefing section on each log page to support continuous improvement in your diving skills. Although this logbook was created as a companion to the book “The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Scuba Diving: How to Increase Safety, Save Money & Have More Fun” (SPFscuba.com), it can also be used as a standalone logbook & reference guide for people serious about having fun in scuba diving!