Hello everyone with question about age discrimination for diving

[fernr]

I am a diving instructor who moved down to Florida 4 years ago. Just hated those northern winters. I was relaxing today when I heard that two seasoned divers who were around 75 years old were vacationing in the Caribbean and tried to rent gear to dive. They were told be numerous dive shops that they were too old and shops would not rent to them. Is this a common occurrence? I never heard of that before but I worked in a dive shop so I never had to rent equipment.

 

[scoobyluu]

Personally haven't seen it before. But this thread has some discussions about it

Thread 'discrimination based solely on age'

Aug 30, 2016

I read a letter in the Summer 2016 issue of Alert Diver from a diver who wrote "There are dive shops that do discriminate based solely on age. I ran into this problem during a 2015 Caribbean cruise with my wife and grandson. I am a 67-year old experienced and active diver with many certifications, and I'm in reasonably good health. I do not take any medications, and I carry a doctor's release to scuba dive. The dive shop's age limit was 65. I never even got to fill out a medical questionnaire or present my certifications; they saw the birthdate and said I could not dive with...

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