Average age of divers today???

[under water]

.. I am not wanting to hear from the vacation divers . ...

Really.
Well then you may have just disqualified a pretty big population. It might change the poll a bit.

 

[sassyalice]

Well I am all over the scale, I am like a little kid heading to the water. "Are we there yet?" Then I am all Mrs. Experience, as I get my husband to carry the tanks and put all my gear together.

Then comes the kid again. "ooohhhhh pool time" I laugh and play (narced?) then pop up, rest and repeat. Then we get on the 10-14 straight days 4-5 dives a day, and I swear at the end of it I am a 70 year old man who spent his life drinking and whoring. I have a smile on my face but I am barely moving. That last step on the ladder is a killer.

Worth every ache and pain!


But today I am wishing I was in kid mode at the moment.

 

[sassyalice]

I am not wanting to hear from the vacation divers I am looking at the folks dive on a regular basis and/or that try to dive when ever they can (which is most on this board).

I'm out. Landlocked. I cry racist!

 

[LakeCountyDiver]

Really.
Well then you may have just disqualified a pretty big population. It might change the poll a bit.

Well probably not a big population on this board which are active divers. If you dive 1-2 times a YEAR then you are not a diver IMO.

 

[Gravybird]

This sure beats welding pipe in power houses and ethonal plants.

What's ethonal? And are the plants poisonous? Or could you eat them if you needed to too survive?

Swyped on the DroidX

 

[AfterDark]

As a dive guide,I see mostly of 40-60 year old divers through my years. I agree with "Jax" in that's the age group that can take off work & afford traveling/diving. I started guiding over ten years ago & will be 60 next year.

"living life without a hard bottom"
KT

That's true of those that don't live near the coast line and need to travel to dive. Also resources like EBay make the cost of gear a little more reasonable. Then we have the fact that the avg young person is simply not in great shape. Physical sports are not as popular as they once were. TV the internet show people things that once required you to strap on a tank and go see for yourself.

 

[Griswoldstahl]

I'm 52 and started diving when I was 20 while I was stationed in Okinawa. This summer, I'm taking my 12 y/o daughter for her OW. She has wanted to dive for several years and is a qualified to be a life guard, if were not for her age. She already took the PADI online course and her confined dives and open water dives will be in Fiji. I can hardly wait to see her face when she does that first OW dive!! Proud pappy!!

 

[Phil]

My wife and I started diving 8 years ago at age 52.....last month we celebrated our 1,000 dive ......couldn't have accomplished that at age 30, no money and no time back then.

 

[Ottoman Diver]

Im 19 right now and i started diving a few years back but if it wasn't for my parents i would not be able to even think about this hobby. Yah this is a crazy expensive hobby.

 

[mjarens]

I am a vacation diver ie: I don't dive at home, as Puget Sound is too cold for me. But I manage to log 55 - 60 dives per year. Am I a real diver?