How do so many folks have so many dives

[Oldbear]

Is it a free service email account (gmail, yahoo, etc.)? If so, I wouldn't keep it there. These providers make money off of the content you upload by data mining it - which is why they are "free." If you have a service provider (email, cloud, etc.) that has a secure server with encryption and guarantees protection of your data, then that would be much better. These services usually cost money, though.

Maybe I am still living in a cave but I don't trust any of them.

Leaks of nude celebrity photos raise concerns about security of the cloud - The Washington Post

Correct me if I am wrong...but aren't we off topic for this thread?
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[bakodiver391]

I worked on Kwajalein in the mid 90's, and for the final year dove after work every day except Wed (marina was closed), and 4 times a day all weekend. It wasn't hard to rack up a few hundred dives in a year, and I remember calculating that it cost about $2 per dive. I still get in a couple of hundred dives a year, very easy if you do it professionally.

 

[R-balljunkie]

Bako.....was that you docked in the lagoon earlier, behind Carlson, blue ship?

 

[bakodiver391]

Bako.....was that you docked in the lagoon earlier, behind Carlson, blue ship?

I work with those guys but I'm not on board right now. it's a Brazilian film crew filming an adventure series with 3 female models. "Sigh", some guys have all the luck.

 

[scubadada]

I'm a bit perplexed at looking at some folks profiles and seeing the amount of dives listed. I wholly understand dive instructors.....they are in the water doing pool sessions, guiding students week in and out. What I dont understand is folks in the midwest who have 2000 dives.


Granted, im closing in on 5 years of diving. Surely a lot of folks eclipse me by many fathoms, year wise. Ill admit in relative terms, I am a new diver.

However, I have access to diving 365 days a year. For the most part, I have dove (minimally) every single weekend for the last four years.

Question posed. How do some folks have so many dives without access all of the times? Diving in January in Des Moines is not a reality.

The old-fashioned way, 924 dives, 877 hours since August 1997. I just keep chugging along. Will make 1000 dives this year.

Good diving, Craig

 

[AfterDark]

I'm a bit perplexed at looking at some folks profiles and seeing the amount of dives listed. I wholly understand dive instructors.....they are in the water doing pool sessions, guiding students week in and out. What I dont understand is folks in the midwest who have 2000 dives.


Granted, im closing in on 5 years of diving. Surely a lot of folks eclipse me by many fathoms, year wise. Ill admit in relative terms, I am a new diver.

However, I have access to diving 365 days a year. For the most part, I have dove (minimally) every single weekend for the last four years.

Question posed. How do some folks have so many dives without access all of the times? Diving in January in Des Moines is not a reality.

Like you I've had access to the ocean all my life. After becoming certified at age 14 (1968) I was able to dive A LOT. As I got older and started a family that was cut down but I still did >50 dives per year. The years pass and the dives rack up. I logged my 2000th dive 6/2013 my current number is 2041 I think give or take 1 or 2 dives. Last year I slacked a bit and the weather wasn't really great when I was able to go so that cut me back some. I doubt if I'll do 50 dives this year so far I've only dived New Years Day so there 49 more to go! The surface temp here now is 20F the water is about 38F and the snow is about 2.5' deep!

 

[Superlyte27]

I only know two divers whom I believe have 5,000 dives. Both are still very active divers and began in 1960-1961. I know a few others who claim to have 5,000 dives. Anyone with less than 40 years diving experience claiming to have 5,000 dives makes my eyebrows raise. I've been scuba diving for 25 years. I live about two miles from the ocean and have a boat. I'm lucky if I get 125 dives in a year. I've never counted class dives nor pool sessions, so I feel honest when someone asks me how many dives I have. I will reach 2,000 sometime next year.

I've been diving 19 years. Truthfully, I quit counting about the time I got a rebreather. But prior to becoming an instructor I had 4800+ hours underwater as a commercial diver (a proper documented logbook was paramount in getting top dollar as a comm diver). Prior to becoming a commercial diver, I was diving recreationally about 150 dives per year. 1 dive a day, 3 days a week usually. About 5 years ago, I became a pretty active technical instructor, easily doing 250 dives per year. Some months, it was 4 - 1 hour dives per day, 7 days a week. About a year ago, I convinced all of my friends to get a rebreather, so instead of doing 3 dives a day on the weekends, we moved to doing one big dive. That's about when I quit counting. My dive number has dropped significantly, but my time in the water has grown substantially.... all dives are 3-6 hours now.

I would hazard a guess that I had 300 dives before Commercial Dive School. I dove almost twice a day every day for 6 months while in school. I dove the very first day out of school. And so started my commercial diving career. My commercial log book is quite accurate. I can look at the bottom right corner of the last page and give you an exact count and hours underwater. So with all that said, what do YOU think the count should be? LOL

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When I was doing a lot of dives (200+) on my rebreather, my average bottom times were much longer. FWIW, I believe number of hours is more relevant than number of dives.

Nah, they're both insignificant. I had several dives in December that were 3-4 hours sitting at 20' staring at little fish, waiting for deco to clear. I've seen guys at 50 dives that looked amazing in the water. Calm, cool, collected, looked like they had been diving doubles for decades. I've seen people who have thousands of dives who looked like hammered crap and couldn't pass an entry level cave class their first time.

It's not the count. Its the dedication to honing one's skills

 

[R-balljunkie]

I work with those guys but I'm not on board right now. it's a Brazilian film crew filming an adventure series with 3 female models. "Sigh", some guys have all the luck.

Darn, shoulda motored down, and trolled slower.....rare miss!

 

[Flutter]

I'm a bit perplexed at looking at some folks profiles and seeing the amount of dives listed. I wholly understand dive instructors.....they are in the water doing pool sessions, guiding students week in and out. What I dont understand is folks in the midwest who have 2000 dives.


Granted, im closing in on 5 years of diving. Surely a lot of folks eclipse me by many fathoms, year wise. Ill admit in relative terms, I am a new diver.

However, I have access to diving 365 days a year. For the most part, I have dove (minimally) every single weekend for the last four years.

Question posed. How do some folks have so many dives without access all of the times? Diving in January in Des Moines is not a reality.

My husband & I started diving late in our marriage (cert 2008) and we just hit our 206 dive on our last shore diving trip to Bonaire (2 weeks). I would be thrilled to someday have 1000 dives. Will it ever happen - maybe , maybe not. I, also, find bottom time more of an indicator of my learning curve and so look at that, and try to maximize it on each dive (even though I understand the reasoning, it kills me when we boat dive, and I am told we need to be in the boat with 500 psi or in the boat when the ladder is rattled - but that is another story).
Yes, we live in the land locked Midwest - and Dread the looooong winters, so we escape as often as we can - always to somewhere warm, where we can dive mutiply times a day for 10-16 days, 3 or 4 times a year. (We are old enough that we have clocked up some respectful vacation time). . Our local dive shop offers 5 warm destination dive trips a year. Every trip is sold out within 1 month! (Snooze, you lose). As is usual, they dive 4-6+ dives/day. That ends up being some serious diving for those who have been doing this for years - several trips/year. . Although we think it sounds cold, ice diving is also common here - there are active clubs that dive every weekend, and also mid-week during the winter's endless parade, and they continue diving once the thaw goes out.
In the Midwest, we don't have to exagerate; we are just desperate. . And as suggested by others, a good number of our divers were previous commercial/military divers, also dive the Great Lakes, are active rescue divers with the police department, etc. Again, those of us who try to dive here, are simply desperate. . And then, perhaps, there is that one or two that must inflate their numbers - you can usually pick them out in a crowd. Lol.

 

[tridacna]

Started diving in 1975 - never 'counted' dives in those days. It just wasn't important and we didn't bother because it was all about the diving and not the number. I did over 200 dives before I did one from a boat! Once you're past 500, who really cares anyway? I have no idea how many I've done.