Yoyoguy
Contributor
All,
I am in a location which there are only so many spots to dive with out a lot of travel/expenses involved which means I routinely dive the same places (lakes and quarries). All these places have varying depths from shallows of 20ft all the way down to 200+ feet, I stay in the 130ft or less range due to my current certifications. Because of this, many of my dives are in the same places so to keep things interesting many of my dives become dives where I am practicing skills. For example: air sharing with buddy, valve drills with doubles, lift bags/DSMB deployments, mask removal...etc while maintaining neutral buoyancy (this part definitely is one I am focusing on now). My question is someone once told me that doing 30 dives at the same location is really just doing 1 dive over and over which does not really count towards your dive count. I can see what they are saying BUT because of these repeat dives, I focus a LOT more on training so I would think they would still count and maybe be even more important since I am focusing on skills rather than just making a dive. Right now I just logged my 100th dive (PADI requires 100 dives, 15 deeper than 100ft, and 25 Nitrox dives) in order to even think about their tec 40 through 50 courses. I will be making more dives before my tec training but what say you...do my dives count or not? If not, then I will have a REALLY long time before I reach the 100 mark with many more locations added in. FYI, all but a handful of these dives are freshwater COLD dives using either 7mm wetsuit, hood, gloves or drysuit which I would think would even add more skill than someone who has made many of their dives in warm waters with less or no exposure protection needed.
I am in a location which there are only so many spots to dive with out a lot of travel/expenses involved which means I routinely dive the same places (lakes and quarries). All these places have varying depths from shallows of 20ft all the way down to 200+ feet, I stay in the 130ft or less range due to my current certifications. Because of this, many of my dives are in the same places so to keep things interesting many of my dives become dives where I am practicing skills. For example: air sharing with buddy, valve drills with doubles, lift bags/DSMB deployments, mask removal...etc while maintaining neutral buoyancy (this part definitely is one I am focusing on now). My question is someone once told me that doing 30 dives at the same location is really just doing 1 dive over and over which does not really count towards your dive count. I can see what they are saying BUT because of these repeat dives, I focus a LOT more on training so I would think they would still count and maybe be even more important since I am focusing on skills rather than just making a dive. Right now I just logged my 100th dive (PADI requires 100 dives, 15 deeper than 100ft, and 25 Nitrox dives) in order to even think about their tec 40 through 50 courses. I will be making more dives before my tec training but what say you...do my dives count or not? If not, then I will have a REALLY long time before I reach the 100 mark with many more locations added in. FYI, all but a handful of these dives are freshwater COLD dives using either 7mm wetsuit, hood, gloves or drysuit which I would think would even add more skill than someone who has made many of their dives in warm waters with less or no exposure protection needed.
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