Like pilots or sailors, skydivers log their activity and achievements in order to document their experience Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20082
A log-book is a book kept in ships and into which the direction of the wind, course of the ship, state of the weather at all hours of the day, are daily transcribed at noon, together with every circumstance deserving notice that may happen to the ship or within her cognizance, either at sea or in a harbour, etc. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/RL.HTM