All the single ladies...

[tkdgodess]

My best-most regular dive buddies have been women.

My first one we dove AOW thru instructor, dove our butts off, 4x4 into uncharted sites, dove every site in the guide books for shore diving. 4 years of diving every weekend. She went tech, I stayed OWSI. We still dive on occasion, but we live far apart right now.

My second regular dive buddy was AOW I met online. For about two years we dove every weekend, boat trips, dive vacations until we tried to mix in non-diving activities, things fell apart.

My current dive buddies are a male instructor and his wife, and another female instructor.

There are more regular male divers than female ime, it's like pulling teeth to get women to dive sometimes, it's like they never really get the dive-bug, just sort of, for warm vacations...

 

[TSandM]

I have no idea why women would prefer to dive with men. The gender of the person with whom I dive is largely irrelevant to me, except that it would be fun to have a female cave diving buddy so I'd have somebody with the same gas consumption I have, and we could do longer dives

Doing a trip is a different story. I'm not sure the guys would be interested in a spa afternoon in the middle of THEIR cave diving trip . . .

 

[Rhone Man]

Most of my favorite dive buddies are female in part due to their excellent SAC rates

You beat me to it, Dr B. I was going to say how I don't like diving with an (otherwise) all female boat... because it means I am the one who runs low on gas first :depressed:

 

[fnfalman]

You beat me to it, Dr B. I was going to say how I don't like diving with an (otherwise) all female boat... because it means I am the one who runs low on gas first :depressed:

Pony bottle? Or bigger tanks.

One of my SoCal buddies was a female instructor. Everytime I went out with her, I brought my 120 tank to go with her 80 tank.

 

[Rhone Man]

Pony bottle? Or bigger tanks.

I am thinking rebreather...

 

[Elonna]

I don't have a SO but the dive group I'm in is about 50/50 male to female, however the females seem to be new divers, myself included. So we did tend to pair up with the guys with more experience in the beginning. By the end of this summer, myself and another girl were doing dives together and did pretty well. So maybe next year we'll be diving together more )

 

[diver 85]

It's a man's sport---women should only be drug out to complete a buddy system---when one is required.................


--------I think it's cuz there are many more male vs female divers, but, I may be wrong.....

 

[RinaW]

It's a man's sport---women should only be drug out to complete a buddy system---when one is required.................

Is this also why we conserve so much air?

 

[Blow.Fish]

Check out this site: Scuba Diver Girls

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

I read an article once that said that male divers outnumber female divers roughly 2:1 in every country except Japan, where that ratio is reversed.

It speculated but couldn't offer any good reasons why this might be so, and which still accounted for the Japan anomaly (It did do a tour of the usual rubbish ("macho sport", "gear too heavy", "don't like to get messy"), but to be fair the article then dismissed all that as pretty improbable). I wonder in the US if is the proportion of divers who are spearfishing skews it (hunting not being as popular with the ladies)?

Although I am sure the article probably led to a surge of young male dive instructors seeking jobs in Japan.

The urban legend I heard as a PADI nearly zero to past hero goes like this;

PADI Japan did an ad with one of Japan's "one name" models. She "loved" diving and nearly initiated the resulting series of ads. All the wannabe hotties wanted to be like the dive hottie!