Logged everything for 18 years offshore so I'll tell you straight. That company line about the tables only counting past a certain depth is half true and that's exactly what makes it dangerous. The tables are for staying alive during the dive, but your logbook is a legal record of exposure, and a review board or a doctor looking at decompression sickness is not reading the tables, they're reading your history. Short bounces and surface days still add up over 12 years and your body keeps the score even if the paper doesn't. I've watched guys get denied work or fight a medical claim because their log was full of holes, and it's a bad spot to be in when you can't prove what you did. Tell your buddy to log it all, takes two minutes, and the day he needs that book he'll be glad it's there.

Nah, you just finally wised up lol.