How many dives before you cease to be a beginner ? [Poll]

How many dives must you do before you cease to be a beginner ?

  • 1-50

    Votes: 11 7.1%
  • 51-100

    Votes: 60 38.5%
  • 101-200

    Votes: 50 32.1%
  • 201-400

    Votes: 4 2.6%
  • Other (please specify).

    Votes: 22 14.1%
  • n/a

    Votes: 9 5.8%

  • Total voters
    156

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I interpreted it as a cheeky fellow who makes sarcastic or ironic remarks. The original connection was to "tongues wagging" and gossiping.
 
I am 65 years old, started diving in 1967. Every time I go to a new site, or try new equipment configurations, I am once again a beginner. One day I may get it right.
 
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To me every dive is a new beginning which would make me a beginner on every dive.
 
To me every dive is a new beginning which would make me a beginner on every dive.
I try to treat every dive as if it's my first, even at very familiar sites.
 
You are always a beginner. That is the mindset I have. I may have experience in some aspects but always a beginner in some. That is how you push your limits outward and further. Learn new things. Comfortable with singles. Move to doubles. After some years and couple hundred dives move to sidemount. After some years and hundreds of further dives go get cave certified. After that and hundreds of dives go get rebreather training, after hundreds of dives go ice diving, after hundreds of dives... probably about to croak but that is the point. Dive every week if you can. I dive 8 months a year every weekend. I have hundreds of dives. I am still a beginner in my mind...
 
I pretty much stopped pushing my limits outward and further after taking the DM course and assisting those 4 years. Since then, my diving has been simple benign shallow shore dives, mostly at sites I'm very familiar with. Maybe once a year a 2 tank charter in the Gulf of Mexico. Thus, I declare I am no longer a beginner because I almost never learn new things or expand my limits.
I also more & more look for the easiest entry and exit points, as the tank gets heavier each year.
 
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