Question How old are you and how long certified? Poll- please take part!

How old are you and how long certified?

  • 10-18

    Votes: 18 1.5%
  • 19-29

    Votes: 114 9.3%
  • 30-39

    Votes: 195 15.9%
  • 40-49

    Votes: 254 20.7%
  • 50-59

    Votes: 295 24.0%
  • 60-69

    Votes: 255 20.7%
  • 70-79

    Votes: 91 7.4%
  • 80-89

    Votes: 7 0.6%
  • 90 and over

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • Total voters
    1,230

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Able to eat a pound of bacon and eggs and refried beans at 7:30 like a champ.

Hmm, looks like Montezuma got his revenge on you Gringo perido. Not one for such an aqua poo adventure, but I can verify that a Healthways Scubair is sufficiently robust to pass scrambled eggs through the exhaust valve.
 
68 - first certification in 1972, over 500 dives. Took a break between 2011 and 2021, diving regularly again for the last four years.
 
54 and got certified at 40.

I wanted to become a diver in my teens, after watching Cousteaus films, but my parents could no afford it. And then I had studies, work etc. Diving had to wait for a quarter of a century.
 
My only regret is that I didn't get involved with diving a lot younger. I had opportunities growing up close to the ocean, but I also had a helicopter mom and she would have had no part of it.
 
I wanted that "Diver" rate when I was in the Navy Cadets ( 3 years before I joined) ,told I was too young, took me 18 months to earn it after I joined and another 16 years to acquire my first civilian qualification, NAUI Aow while I was still in the Navy, the Navy paid for me to become a civilian diving instructor as part of my "resettlement training for civilian life " . What's that? 57 years diving 40 years a civilian instructor, PADI for 6 and NAUI since. 🤔
 
I wanted that "Diver" rate when I was in the Navy Cadets ( 3 years before I joined) ,told I was too young, took me 18 months to earn it after I joined and another 16 years to acquire my first civilian qualification, NAUI Aow while I was still in the Navy, the Navy paid for me to become a civilian diving instructor as part of my "resettlement training for civilian life " . What's that? 57 years diving 40 years a civilian instructor, PADI for 6 and NAUI since. 🤔
I'm impressed!
 

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