100th dive

[RTee]

Would you believe 31 years?...Got certified in Apr 79 and then diving had to compete with university, pilot training, flying, postings, family and many more outdoors activities (and lost). In December 2008, I decided to go back to that old flame of mine and following a scuba tune-up, I resumed diving with a trip to Cozumel end of March 2009. Since that time, I have accumulated 140 dives. My girlfriend was certified end May 2009 and already has 112 dives.

 

[fjpatrum]

Don't know. I'll tell you in about 93 more dives.

 

[Moonglow]

As a freshman, I took a semester long Scuba Diver course through the academic program at college, Jan 17 through May 15th. Dived all summer and made my 100th dive in Cozumel on Labor Day.

 

[Skipp]

I started out hot to trot. I was ready, man. Nothing was going to stop me. Well...I finally hit 100 in 2008, thirteen years later.

 

[watboy]

Got certified in college, for the first 15 years got less than 60 dives in. Had time but no money. Then had money no time.

Now I have money and time and I got 120 dives in the last year alone.

 

[FritzCat66]

How long did it take for everyone to get to 100 dives.

Well, let's see - 100th dive in 2008, born in 1966, that's 42 years.

 

[Dyno Bill]

I probably got my 100th dive in between 5-8 months and then I started getting more serious. Probably dove 3 weekends a month either on a boat or a beach dive.

 

[Lorenzoid]

About seven years, I believe. My then-wife and I did the OW course in 1998 because we were planning to vacation in Australia with some friends, and damn if I was going to visit Oz without seeing the Great Barrier Reef. After that, the demands of career, family and finances limited my diving to taking a couple of weekend-long trips a year, or to sneaking in a dive or two during a land-based vacation. So for the next several years I got in maybe 8-10 dives per year. Eventually, following a divorce and general reconfiguring of my life, I took a year off from the rat race and traveled around Central America, with a focus on diving in Honduras, Belize and Mexico. That really reignited my interest in diving. Last year I married a wonderful woman who loves diving, and it was practically part of our wedding vows to take at least one week-long dive trip per year. We just got back from Indonesia, where we dove four times a day for five days.

 

[palmm]

sorry about the divorce, but you seem pretty happy about your current situation.

 

[Red Dragon]

I got it in one year,,,

and now I am diving 6 dives every weekend!!! So thats around 300 dives a year I just got a boat so the number might go up to 500 dives a year soon

Living the dream....