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Fred R.
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Hi again.
The story I told about the turtle mating now has video. My wife posted her view of the incident on YouTube;
YouTube - Grand Bahama Scuba Diving Close Encounter
Enjoy!
According to the Platinum Pro records I am not the diver with the highest log count, yet! If we are counting scuba divers only, not hard hat or commercial divers, that honor goes to Brett Gilliam, who, if memory serves me, claims 17,500 or so dives. He also announced his retirement from diving this year, so I should catch up to that number before too long if I keep up at my current schedule.
I know several divers who have more dives than I, they dont keep count so I cant say how far behind I am.
Scubaskipper gets the point, anyone can kick out of their routine, join an active dive operation and rack up some impressive dive numbers very quickly. VERY few stick with it for long. Most of the long time divers I know made it to somewhere between 2500 and 5000 dives and dropped out. If you go through the Platinum Pro profiles, you may see this pattern. Most dive shops have high owner turnover, or just pop up and wink out of business very quickly.
I also suspect, if we could get all the divers with more than 14,000 logged dives together, say at a bar during DEMA, that someone could buy them all a beer and get change back from a $100 bill.
The story I told about the turtle mating now has video. My wife posted her view of the incident on YouTube;
YouTube - Grand Bahama Scuba Diving Close Encounter
Enjoy!
According to the Platinum Pro records I am not the diver with the highest log count, yet! If we are counting scuba divers only, not hard hat or commercial divers, that honor goes to Brett Gilliam, who, if memory serves me, claims 17,500 or so dives. He also announced his retirement from diving this year, so I should catch up to that number before too long if I keep up at my current schedule.
I know several divers who have more dives than I, they dont keep count so I cant say how far behind I am.
Scubaskipper gets the point, anyone can kick out of their routine, join an active dive operation and rack up some impressive dive numbers very quickly. VERY few stick with it for long. Most of the long time divers I know made it to somewhere between 2500 and 5000 dives and dropped out. If you go through the Platinum Pro profiles, you may see this pattern. Most dive shops have high owner turnover, or just pop up and wink out of business very quickly.
I also suspect, if we could get all the divers with more than 14,000 logged dives together, say at a bar during DEMA, that someone could buy them all a beer and get change back from a $100 bill.
It's always a pleasure diving with you!!
