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Every time I go diving I see other people diving, it has never crossed my mind to ponder if more people should be diving.
This is the way I think about it. More people diving-- good, bad? Good for dive ops of course.This topic seems to come up regularly and I don't understand.
Every time I go diving I see other people diving, it has never crossed my mind to ponder if more people should be diving.
I also don't think scuba is a very expensive hobby, maybe average. If you can dive locally it's pretty cheap for a hobby. Even if you travel to dive it's way cheaper than sports cars as a hobby or most types of racing.
Forget about comparing it to boating or even more so fishing, particularly offshore fishing.
A number of the last posts are in line with what I post a few weeks ago about the WtF ratio. If the amount of WORK required for an activity becomes too much in relation to the amount of FUN gained form the experience, then participation will suffer.
This reminded me of an moment recently in a LDS. I was talking to the girl behind the counter and she mentioned she still hadn't finished the "classroom/book" training to get dive certified. Pretty much everything she read about in the training manual frightened her, but the free flow breathing exercised was one she pointed out as being especially intimidating.........
3) Fear. In my case I always wanted to dive but once in Okinawa I saw someone doing a class in confined waters and I asked the guy I was with what was going on and he explained the free flow exercise. I thought to myself no way I can do that. Fast forward way too many years and it turned out to be an incredibly easy drill.