Are you a flyer or a looker?

[MaxBottomtime]

I'm a looker. I usually stay in a twenty foot square area taking pictures on a reef. I don't move much unless I'm wreck diving.
I don't see the point of being a flyer. You can do that in a pool of a lake. No need to waste money on a dive boat or vacation if all you want to do is float. I feel the same way about scooters though, so the dive industry wouldn't make much money if most divers were like me.

 

[BTravlin]

Definitely a looker. In fact, I'm somewhat of a revised looker in that I left my camera behind on the last trip for the first time in a long while. Started to really look, absorb and enjoy what I was seeing rather than try to get the perfect shot. Nice change of pace.

A majority of my dives lately have been drift dives in Coz though so that makes me a flying looker. Or you could say I'm a kind of flying eyewitness. Yup, that's it.

 

[Hammerhead]

Every dive is different.

Some days a dive is all about flying over the landscape, seeing what is around the next bend, or in the next coral head, or rock pile. I begin to enjoy the dip and glide of the flight, just for the feeling of freedom it brings!

Other dives don't cover an area any bigger than my living room, I am having so much fun finding creatures, maybe photographing, maybe just looking.

Then there are dives where I am enjoying showing a buddy something I have seen before. Sharing something I know they will enjoy too.

Some dives all I do is practice skills, and enjoy simply being under water for an hour.

Not so much a looker or a flyer, but a diver. When I can break away from all the other things I am, when I am not diving.

And the prize goes to gypsyjim!

For me it totally depends on the dive - decent drift and I'll fly, shallow muck dive and I'll move maybe 10m in an hour.

 

[wrybosome]

(with apologies to Steve Miller) ...


I'm a caver
I'm a reefer
I'm a nitrox breather
I spend my time just floatin' around

You're the cutest thing
That I ever have seen
I really love your backplate
Want to squeeze your wing
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Dive with me baby, I'll show you a good time


... Bob (Grateful Diver)

My hat is off, Grateful Diver. Kudos.

 

[gypsyjim]

My hat is off, Grateful Diver. Kudos.

Agreed! I really enjoyed that too, Bob. VERY creative!(I copied and posted it elsewhere tonight)

 

[The Kraken]

60% flyer, 39% looker and 1% stroke.

the K

 

[DennisS]

Lobster looker

 

[FireInMyBones]

I am a Flyer. And I am an adventurer. I like to find my limits and move on to the next challenge.

 

[super7]

I'm basically a flyer. Diving a drop off and looking down the seemingly endless wall leading into darkness, really thrills me.

But then, when the divesite is shallow and bustling with life, I might be hovering in one spot taking photos of nudibranchs, shrimps and gobies.

I guess it gets down to where and when.

 

[diverrex]

I'm definitely a looker. I like the sense of diving but I'm not sure I would dive if it wasn't to see the fish. It doesn't need to be much, the same old garibaldi do fine, I just like to observe the other world going on down there.