I like this thread. It’s interesting to see the kinds of dives and numbers of other posters.
48 total dives for me in 2017 and I pushed hard to fit in that many. That’s about the most my budget and time would allow for. I think I could have squeezed in a few more if the NC seas would have cooperated but this year was extremely rough. It got to the point where I just booked whatever charter was available every weekend even if it was a site I didn’t have on my wish list, just hoping to get out to something.
Florida
8 Blue Heron Bridge
2 Riviera Beach charter
12 Key Largo and Tavernier
North Carolina
11 quaries
13 charters off the coast
South Carolina
2 charters
I did get to see my first seahorse and my first mantis shrimp, both at BHB. I also made it to the Normania for the first time, a wreck out of Wilmington, NC that I had to schedule 3 times before the conditions would let us get out. My girlfriend was able to join me on 36 of these which was great. (She also had a first for herself, a year without puking . That includes a couple of sites 38 miles offshore. I think she’s getting her sealegs.)
I was also actually was on a dive with
@Dan_T , but I didn't realize it until after the fact. That would be the only new scubaboard poster that I dove with.
All in all, it was a great year. Hopefully 2018 will be just as good or better.
Win