Diving after Fifty??

[highdesert]

Doing Rescue this summer in my 60th year. I ride the road bike hard at least five days a week, ski way too fast in the winter, and dive when we can get away. When my activity level gets down to about 50%, and I can't do these things, I'll pop a cyanide capsule and reach for the handgun ... or is the other way around? Anyway, that's decades away ...

 

[rongoodman]

Tried Denali a couple of weeks ago at 61--granted, it kicked my old butt really hard and I didn't come near the summit. After that, even Ed Hayes and Fundies isn't particularly scary.

 

[Oxy]

I guess I gotta chime in on this one........I haven't even certified YET! and I'm 54

 

[TN Traveler]

I got re-certified at age 59, after a 30 year hiatus. This was after a TIA that caused me to lose 6 hours of my life. Fortunately my Doctor is a diver and he signed off.

Have accumulated over 200 dives in the past 3 years - and I'm not intending to slow down any time soon. Great incentive for losing weight and working out a couple of times a week, when not diving.

Heck - my equipment is about to be 50 years old

 

[rmannix]

50 is the new 40.
So nobody over 40 should dive anymore.

 

[Oxy]

If your over fifty, your warrantee has expired (snip)

I purchased an extended warranty around 29 when I sat up in the middle of the street after a 2 wheeled wreck. Still makin payments

 

[Scuba-Stu]

My grandmother dove into her 70's. The only thing that stopped her from going after that was that even with help getting in and out of the boat became too difficult.

 

[friscuba]

I'm turning 50 this fall. I may have to quit.... my Lazy-Boy rocker I'm gettin' for my birthday isn't neutrally bouyant.

 

[Oxy]

Hack weeze weeze weeze, all this geezer talk made me put on tennyrunners for the first time in years. Was shocked to see the 1/4 mile marker and still pickin em up. Even made the half before needing CPR (had to walk home without it tho) I'm not as bad off as I thought AND since most of my diving will be beach entry at well under a half mile, I'm still interested.

 

[Rhone Man]

Re OP: Sounds like sloppy journalism. I cannot think that I have ever read a professional recommendation not to dive after 50.