2018 stats and accomplishments

[Dan]

How do you guys get over 100 dives in a year ? Are you all working part time in the industry ?

If only I could afford to take a year off

No, just putting a good plan on my 4-week vacation / year and taking advantage of the US national holidays (long weekend like Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.). I got 98 dives by going to 3 of a week-long liveaboard trips (averaging about 20 dives / trip) & 10 of weekend / national holiday trips (Sat & Sun, averaging about 4 dives/weekend).

 

[Searcaigh]

98 Dives this year, mainly in UAE but had 4 dives in Oman (Damaniyats) and 8 in Anilao (Philippines).

Caught a cold in the Philippines after 3 days and lost out on 4 more planned days of diving

 

[MaxBottomtime]

81 dives, my lowest total in twenty years. 26 at God's Pocket, 2 at the oil rigs aboard the Giant Stride and 53 from my own boat after having it in the shop for two months and spending a couple of months in Phoenix. Swells were still too big to get out this morning, but I'm hoping for a better year in 2019.

 

[Cyborg Pirate]

296 dives for 2018. Would like to have had 300+. However with helitrox, trimix and most recently CCR certs. Dive numbers slowed but bottom time went through the roof. So I will gladly take the trade off. New baby this year kept traveling down to a min. In fact only 2 trips to San Diego wrecks for 2018. Got to do a lot of deep exploring of the old Waddell Dam here in the Phoenix area at Lake Pleasant. Seriously a cool structure to see. Travel will improve for 2019. Not up to the regular pace. But that’ll come already have 4 trips booked for 2019.

 

[TMHeimer]

How do you guys get over 100 dives in a year ? Are you all working part time in the industry ?

If only I could afford to take a year off

I have done as much as I thought I would do: got my OW and AOW this summer, a couple of dives in Malta. Got a drysuit and now I can dive in cold water.

Only 22 dives but half of them are training/certifications. Not so easy to go diving when you live in East London, but I will have a new quarry 45 mins away from where I live in a month

Easily done. Even just locally if you live in a warm(ish) climate. My average lately has been around 70. From May thorough Oct. I usually do a 2 dive day weekly, but quite a bit less during Nov.-April--like one dive daily every 2 weeks or so. Of course being retired surely helps as you don't have to depend on good conditions on just weekends or days off. Even if I had lived on the ocean (like I do now) during my working years I doubt I would've been a diver then.

 

[Steve_C]

2017 was 35, 2018 was 32. All 2018 dives were NC dives, mix of ocean and quarries. Hurricanes canceled out several coastal dives but they get canceled a lot due to weather even without hurricanes. Travel was limited. At 73 my goal is to just keep paddling along messing with fish ID. Working on a higher level of SAS REEF surveyor. Besides the NC stuff hope to work in some FL diving. Revisit BHB if it works out.

 

[helodriver87]

195 this year. 105 cave dives. Longest was 3 hours. Tech 1 and DPV are up next!

 

[scubadada]

Grateful for 216 dives, 227 hours, best year to date. Galapagos, Bonaire, Cayman, Boynton Beach, Jupiter and West Palm, Florida. I hope 2019 will be as good, Bonaire and Revillagigedos are already on the calendar, as is Florida.

 

[Dzydvl33]

8 dives this year, we had quite a rough year medically. It's not many I know BUT, I spite of everything, it has been a huge year. I finally got to get back in the water after a 25 year break due to life. The best thing was that my wife got certified this year. We geared up and are hoping for many more dives in the future. I am blessed to have a Wife that shares my passions. Sure everything cost twice as much but It is worth it to have the one I love with me to share many adventures to come.

Happy and Safe Diving to everyone in 2019!!!!

 

[Landau]

123 dives in 2018

100 in BC
19 in Bahamas
4 in Mexico

Highlights was earning my Divemaster, playing with sea lions, watching an octopus hunt at night and Northern Vancouver island - the surface intervals there were spent watching humpbacks, orcas, dolphins, porpoises and sea otters and underwater was spectacular.