Guys also very occasionally ask for directions.
Can you point me to where you read that?
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Guys also very occasionally ask for directions.
I ask for directions maybe even more than my wife, and I've been to all states & provinces except Hawaii. I don't do GPS, just the old maps.Can you point me to where you read that?
As this thread nears 200 posts, it may be time to get back onto the original post, which theorized that some of the decline in scuba participation may be due to the destruction of the beautiful diving spots that abounded when I was a new diver and spurred me to dive all around the world.
When I read this question, I thought of a few of the experiences I wrote about earlier, specifically....2.) What impression to fairly new divers have of reef diving, given that they may not have high standards based on first had experience of diving decades ago? If they're happy with what's available now, and calibrate their expectations to it, is that good enough?
. . . You don't have to be in any of the places like that decades before to know there is nothing of interest to see there, and you don't have to know a whole lot of marine biology to know that dead, white coral was probably once alive and colorful.
There is more than one level of enthusiasm. It is not a choice between "enthused" and "bored."And then again, I mentioned in a post above that a newly certified friend of mine and his newly certified family did their first post-cert dive in the Bahamas (on a cruise port of call, I think) and were absolutely wowed when a lone turtle passed by. My friend raved about that one encounter--I suspect he couldn't recall seeing much else but white sand and rubble--and went on and on about what a great time the family had.
That was a few years ago, and my friend and his family did not stick with scuba diving, but the reasons had nothing to do with the marine environment.
There is more than one level of enthusiasm. It is not a choice between "enthused" and "bored."
If they were that enthused about a single turtle, think how enthused they would have been had the seen the true beauty that was there a few decades ago.
Once again, there is a difference between being "satisfied" by what you saw and being so excited by it that you can't wait for a similar experience.Are new divers are satisfied with what they see?