Dives per Year

[mccabejc]

After scanning thru the Dive Statistics for 2004 thread, I was surprised at the number of folks who had significantly more than 100 dives this year (about two per week). I'm curious how you guys manage to get all those dives in. Aside from the instructors, of course. I've been trying to dive every weekend, and still I average one per week. If you subtract out days when conditions are undivable, or a buddy isn't available, or whatever other reason, averaging two per week is quite a lot.

Maybe you guys take week long vacations and dive 'til you puke :11:

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

While I am an instructor my wife isn't yet she gets well over 100 dives per year. But during checkout weekends she'll do 3 or 4 dives a day and on our month long vacations we get way over 100 dives that month.

But it isn't all weekend diving with us, during the longer daylight season we try to get a dive in during the week.

Just priorities I guess

 

[drbill]

I do 250-350 dives a year (most of that here in soCal), but my work is largely dive-related so it isn't hard to accumulate that many. It is almost unheard of for me to do one dive per day, with two the very minimum and up to six a day. That makes them add up quickly.

Of course most of those on the board have real jobs (with real paychecks I might add).

Dr. Bill

 

[Rick Inman]

I make one dive every (almost) Tuesday night with a group. Then also dive one dive most Saturday mornings. Then I also try to dive 3 dives per month (avg) in Puget Sound. Then one or 2 vacations with a dozen dives. I don't hit all these, which is why I'll end at about 160.
BTW. In the next few days, I'll add up the numbers from that other thread and post the averages.

 

[matt_unique]

After scanning thru the Dive Statistics for 2004 thread, I was surprised at the number of folks who had significantly more than 100 dives this year (about two per week). I'm curious how you guys manage to get all those dives in. Aside from the instructors, of course. I've been trying to dive every weekend, and still I average one per week. If you subtract out days when conditions are undivable, or a buddy isn't available, or whatever other reason, averaging two per week is quite a lot.

Maybe you guys take week long vacations and dive 'til you puke :11:

I dive virtually every weekend from mid April to the end of December. Jan through the first of April I slow down a bit because of the bitter conditions. 40-50 dives would be a good year for me. The only people I know who get 100 dives a year are instructors. I'm sure there are a few exceptions though.

--Matt

 

[ShakaZulu]

Easy Jim, just hangout with Sean..........

 

[gcbryan]

After scanning thru the Dive Statistics for 2004 thread, I was surprised at the number of folks who had significantly more than 100 dives this year (about two per week). I'm curious how you guys manage to get all those dives in. Aside from the instructors, of course. I've been trying to dive every weekend, and still I average one per week. If you subtract out days when conditions are undivable, or a buddy isn't available, or whatever other reason, averaging two per week is quite a lot.

Maybe you guys take week long vacations and dive 'til you puke :11:

It's simple. Live in the PNW and dive at night and weekends. If you live where shore diving is available and nearby it's not hard to accumulate twice that (200 dives). I do even more and am not an instructor but I need to get a life

Buddies are always available here and there is always someplace around here where the conditions are always divable.
Gray

 

[jlyle]

1. I have a buddy with a boat.
2. We can dive all year long in Southern California.
3. We do at least two dive vacations each year.

= 173 dives in 2004

 

[scottfiji]

I've been average about 10 a month (120 per year) since I started heavily beach diving 6 months ago. Now Jim, you and me go to the same dive sites, but there are some differences -

- my flexible work schedule allows me to make some weekday dives
- if I don't have a buddy, or if I want to be alone, I dive solo - that is about 1/2 my dives
- I live closer to the water to you
- I'm more of a risk taker when it comes to waves, so I'll go in almost anything;
- my fiancee never calls me before a second dive and tells me I have to go home

I think now that you are better at picking the sites with the right conditions, and you have a larger network of buddies, you will be able to get in 2 dives per week, especially if you can handle slightly larger waves.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I didn't quite make 100 this year, but I will have logged about 80(~10 more not logged) and we were out for a few weeks for Ivan.

I try diving atleast 3 out of 4 weekends and generally make 2 dives on any of my dive-days - sometimes more depending on location. During the summer we get into night diving atleast once every week during the weeknights.