what kind of diver are you?

[Jay Adams]

do you consider yourself a vacation diver only? or are you in the water more than you're out?
to answer my own question, I am in the water almost as much as I am on dry land, I occasionally get to go dive the clear water, about 12 times total of my over 150 dives. I have been diving for 4 years. I do not consider myself a vacation diver. I own all of my own gear, dive cold green water on purpose etc etc.

 

[Marie13]

I'm the total opposite of a vacation diver. About 330 dives in four years - all in the cold, green water of the Great Lakes or Midwestern quarries.

Got into diving to dive the Great Lakes shipwrecks I've been obsessed with since 1991. Awesome beyond words.

I dive Midwestern quarries/small inland lakes as both practice for the Great Lakes and a way to get wet. They have interesting things to see - interesting rock formations, fish, etc.

I just did the unthinkable last weekend (the long Thanksgiving weekend) and earned my cavern/intro to cave cert. Swore I was never interested in looking at wet rocks in the dark. But instructor urged me to do the class. Said it would benefit my wreck diving, and it's also a way to dive all winter - in a former lead/zinc mine in SW Wisconsin. It was intense and a lot more fun than expected. Water is 50F year round and the access pond doesn't freeze. They drove big trucks into that mine. I've poked around inside enough shipwrecks for an overhead to not bother me.

I'll do my ice diving cert later this winter.

The only "warm" water I've dived is the shallow side of my local quarry when it's really warm late in the summer. I also had 74F at 60ft once in Lake Michigan, but that was unusual. I hate being hot. Humidity makes it even worse. Intentionally paying hard-earned money to go dive warm water? Eh, don't think so.

 

[Jay Adams]

my favorite dives are cold quarries, there's lots of cool stuff left behind. our lakes are sub 50s below 30' even in the summer I have seen 38 at 72 feet in one lake at the end of August

 

[flyboy08]

I'm the poster child for recreational warm water 1000 ft viz and tequila drinking divers everywhere..

 

[JackOfDiamonds]

I dive regularly all over the country, have full set of gear plus two cylinders so I can go somewhere remote or on a night dive with out needing to depend on a dive center.

 

[rhwestfall]

Since starting in 1989, mostly cold, but the last few years, a combination of both. I dive at home (Great Lakes), but have been a number of times in the last few years to that warm funny tasting stuff. If not for the damn pandemic, I would have done both blue and green water in 2020. Instead, I did neither....

 

[RKO]

I'm a full time diver, being from Key Largo, I have been diving in beautiful waters down here from the reefs to the wrecks since I was 15. I feel very lucky to be down here most of the year, it's a beautiful location and I can dive the best reefs in the United States day and night. This is why people from around the world come down here for the diving, it's amazing location.

When in the NYC area we go diving in Long Island Sound, big difference then Key Largo with 10ft visibility, but if your lucky you can now see whales and dolphins. Sometimes we go to the south shore of Long Island and do some shore dives or wrecks dives in the summer time.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Certified in 1989, I was a free diver before trying scuba. I have a little over 2500 dives, with the majority being in cold water. I have several dozen warm water dives, but haven't really enjoyed any of them. I'm sure I'll find somewhere warm that I like someday. In the meantime, my favorite dives are California and British Columbia. I have two freshwater dives. Both were boring. I prefer to see marine life.

For several years I made mostly tech dives, but most of my dives these days are shallower than 100 feet with a single tank. I carry a Nikon D850 on every dive to document as many animals as I can.

 

[Blackcrusader]

do you consider yourself a vacation diver only? or are you in the water more than you're out? to answer my own question, I am in the water almost as much as I am on dry land, I occasionally get to go dive the clear water, about 12 times total of my over 150 dives. I have been diving for 4 years. I do not consider myself a vacation diver. I own all of my own gear, dive cold green water on purpose etc etc.

I'm a vacation diver. I usually take 14 - 18 day vacations several times a year and do 12 - 15 diving days with 3 - 4 dives a day.
So I may do 35 - 50 dives per vacation so do around 150 - 200 plus dives a year. Most I did was 58 in one 3 week vacation. Until this year as due to covid I cannot travel overseas to my main diving vacation spots.

 

[bobmaggi]

I dive year round up in the Great Lakes although during the winter we switch from wreck diving to diving local lakes once the big lakes get too bad. At least once a year I take my wife warm water diving which I also like to do but wrecks are my bread and butter. I got my technical certifications and rebreather because most of the wrecks I like are between 150 and 250 feet down so some years I spend a lot of time doing deco. Been diving since ‘78 and not planning on giving it up as long as I stay healthy!