ohmdiver
Contributor
The real diffrence is that while you are basically in the same element, fresh water lacks big animals that are way cool to see, while fresh water offers limited vis and cool wrecks. Salt water has wood boring organism that reduce a wooden wreck to something unrecognizable. This organizism does not live in freash water and therefore wooden wrecks last a very long time.
There is an instructor that I work with that claims fresh water dives are not the same as salt water dives He belives that 1 fresh water dive could equal up to 10 salt water dives. There is enough of a diffrence to be a diffrence. Good vis in fresh water around me is 20' but as the winter gets older vis can get out about 60'. I have done a dive where it was all you could do to see the end of your arm.
There are unique experiances to have in both. Celebrate the diffrence....
There is an instructor that I work with that claims fresh water dives are not the same as salt water dives He belives that 1 fresh water dive could equal up to 10 salt water dives. There is enough of a diffrence to be a diffrence. Good vis in fresh water around me is 20' but as the winter gets older vis can get out about 60'. I have done a dive where it was all you could do to see the end of your arm.
There are unique experiances to have in both. Celebrate the diffrence....