You might be a dive addict

[Seaduced]

If your willing to dive 100' or more (freshwater lake) with no wetsuit rather than wait for your new suit to show up (old one was lost on highway somewhere)...you might be a dive addict

Oh, do tell Phil...


You might be a dive addict...

when the only question about an 0600 dive boat departure is... will there be coffee and doughnuts?

when putting on cold, damp clothing at 0600, doesn't even elicit a whimper.

 

[ScubaSam]

Great thread as I'm soooooo guilty of 95% of what has already been posted. Adding some of personal addiction issues.

• Dive wet in 44 degree water temp as soon as the local quarry opens for the local dive season. - GUILTY
• Won't consider dating a man unless he is certified, actively diving and diving ALL the environments I love. - GUILTY
• See my nose breather friends when I can't dive - GUILTY
• Had to make new diving friends as no family or friends dive. - GUILTY
  
• All vacations now involve diving. - GUILTY
• All money goes toward dive gear, goodbye shoe and handbag addiction. - GUILTY.
• Moving to FL in 1 - 2 years to be closer to wrecks, reefs and caves. - GUILTY
• Buying a car next dive season cause no one owns a car in NYC...tired of car rentals every time I dive local. - GUILTY
• Speeding tickets cuts into air-fills and gear so no longer speed as badly.- GUITLY
  
• Subscribe to four dive magazines - GUILTY
• Member of five diving online forums- GUILTY
• When watching diving videos, spend more time looking at diver's technique, trim and buoyancy than at the marine life. - GUILTY
  
• Spending so much SI time on SB that your post count is a constant joke among your dive buddies. - GUILTY
• Poor than dirt. - GUILTY

 

[Teamcasa]

Only divers can comfortably discuss peeing in your suit vs diapers or catheters.

 

[TSandM]

You're a scuba addict if:

You own all of Tobin's clever little gear maintenance repair tools, and chortle gleefully over them. (I own three of the inflator service tools, because I keep misplacing them.)

You know what a transfill whip is, own one, and USE it.

The number of pairs of "shoes" you have bought to try to optimize your drysuit outnumbers the street shoes you own.

You have pool fins, and warm water fins, and cold water fins, and cave fins . . .

You just painted your bedroom in color you picked from one of your favorite cave diving photographs . . . and plan to HANG cave diving photographs all over said bedroom.

You hate mornings, cold weather, and the dark, and get up at 5:30 in midwinter to go diving because the tides are right.

The most beautifully furnished room you've seen in any of your friends' houses is the garage of the guy with the home fill station.

And my favorite, courtesy NW Grateful Diver: You know you're a dive addict when the value of the dive gear in the garage exceeds the value of the car that now lives in the driveway!

 

[overkillphil]

Oh, do tell Phil...
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This one was actually my friend Jeff. His Hendeson Hyperstretch somehow got left in the pontoon boat on the trip home, and blew out on the highway. Backtracked entire route with no luck He ordered a new H2, but was chomping at the bit to dive the PBY here at Lake Mead. 150' no wetsuit :crazyeye: He's a maniac! I've done 90' in Lake Mohave with no wetsuit, but...

One more,
When you're willing to drive 3 1/2 hours and dive 38F - 43F water in a 3mm suit rather than miss the opportunity to experience the amazing visibility of Clear Lake Oregon while on vacation...you might be a dive addict

 

[overkillphil]

And my favorite, courtesy NW Grateful Diver: You know you're a dive addict when the value of the dive gear in the garage exceeds the value of the car that now lives in the driveway!

Truer words are seldom spoken...

 

[NYCSurfer]

You know you are dive addict...

... when air travel requires advance planning due to residual nitrogen loading.
... the concept of "first dive without previous loading" is just wrong
... loading your diving equipment into your car increases it's value by a factor greater 2.
... you can't rationalise fixing some non-essential stuff on your car for €15 but see no problem with buying a third set of fins for €30.
... you can't understand the concept of not having your own O2 cylinder for mixing Nitrox
... the LDS sends people to you to try out gear before ordering, because you have a better selection.
... you can fill any gas at any pressure from the storage bank in your garage
... you understand the points people made in these posts.
... you can emphasise
... you fail to see the humour in stating the obvious

Gerbs

Dude, when I fill up the fuel tank in my truck ('91 Pathfinder), the value more than doubles, forget about putting any dive gear, or surfing gear, or...........

 

[DiveMom1]

You have a bathroom dedicated to washing and drying dive gear.. [guilty] and have it's own room for storage [aka spare bedroom] you might be a dive addict [guilty]
you "discourage" company coming to visit because you don't have guest room [because you don't want to move your dive gear out of "it's room"

Then.. you may be a dive addict! I know I am. Step son is coming next week [for unknown extended stay] now I have to figure out where to put ALL our dive gear! LOL

Oh and shed or van are out of the question since they are also full of other dive gear!

 

[thanksforallthefish]

The price of everything is measured in air fills ... oh that would be 20 air fills!!

 

[101recon]

The house is taking on that "wet gear" smell along with the new "wet/drip areas",and both you AND the cat are getting used to it.