How many dives per year?

[scubadiverjunkie]

I got certified last April and I have 80 - all Salt and warm water - so 80 would be my avg. Looking to do a whole lot more traveling this year for diving and hoping to squeeze ina liveaboard or three -

 

[Diver0001]

It changes from year to year. When I first started diving I dove like a maniac. There was a period where I only made 10 or 20 or so and these days I'm back up to 100+ per year. I think the average over the 20 years or so I've been diving is probably in the 50-60 range but I'm the world's worst keeper of log books (despite various efforts to improve) and all I really have is estimates.

More important than the number of dives, however, is the number of dives in various (new) conditions. I've explored many hundreds of new sites from North and Central America, to Africa, to the Med and my latest project to see as many of the deep N. Sea wrecks as I have the time and money for...... If you ask me somone who makes 400 dives a year on the same coral head is going to reach a point where the dive doesn't contribute much to his/her learning curve anymore. One of the instructors on scubaboard (iirc) has made over 4000 dives on the same location. That makes him a highly experienced diver by any standards but taking him down on N.Sea wreck would probably blow his mind.

R..

 

[flw]

Somewhere between 75-100/year. I very rarely will do more than one dive a day, and I'd far rather do one good dive than two or three not so good. Away for a weeks diving in Orkney/Caithness on Friday, but the plan is only to do 6 deep wrecks - compared to a week in the red sea when you'd likely to about 20 shallow dives in the same time scale.

 

[IslandHopper]

Wow .. I expext I'll dive a little more than 100 times this year. Maybe more next year if I do the IDC this time around.

 

[Paco]

230 dives in three years, guess that's about 77 a year, mostly fresh and cold

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

do you guys work too?!?

how do you find the time??

-dan

Well, those of us living in the Puget Sound area have very convenient access to dive sites. There is a nice dive site only four miles from where I work ... and another one about three miles from the house I just purchased.

I can head off after work any day and get in a dive before dinner ... or two if I feel like skipping dinner (and there are VERY few activities in life that would make me want to do that).

Also, diving is very popular here ... so finding buddies to dive with is almost automatic. If I decide this morning that I want to dive this afternoon, it usually only takes a phone call or two ... or a quick posting to our "local" scuba board ... to find someone who also wants to go.

Knowing the kind of planning that most of y'all have to go through to get a chance to blow bubbles, I can appreciate the opportunities that living in the Puget Sound area affords. Therefore it's my duty not to waste those opportunities ...

In fact ... SnowBear, Uncle Pug, and I are leaving tomorrow morning for three days of diving in Vancouver Island ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[seabat]

about 35 a year, mostly shore dives in salt water. Salty Green water for the past 5 years. (PNW area)

 

[Diver0001]

Well, those of us living in the Puget Sound area have very convenient access to dive sites. There is a nice dive site only four miles from where I work ... and another one about three miles from the house I just purchased.

I can head off after work any day and get in a dive before dinner ... or two if I feel like skipping dinner (and there are VERY few activities in life that would make me want to do that).

Also, diving is very popular here ... so finding buddies to dive with is almost automatic. If I decide this morning that I want to dive this afternoon, it usually only takes a phone call or two ... or a quick posting to our "local" scuba board ... to find someone who also wants to go.

Knowing the kind of planning that most of y'all have to go through to get a chance to blow bubbles, I can appreciate the opportunities that living in the Puget Sound area affords. Therefore it's my duty not to waste those opportunities ...

In fact ... SnowBear, Uncle Pug, and I are leaving tomorrow morning for three days of diving in Vancouver Island ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

<SIGH.....> :sad_2: I miss this sooooo much. It's the one thing that I never get used to living in Holland. Traded in the most spectacular diving in the world for 3 metre viz, blubbler bottoms and fished out oceans.

.... except for the wrecks, of course......

R..

 

[Gary D.]

I've been all over the place. High years were over 1000 and a slow year around 50.

When I blew out my knee I was off 4 months and got in over 400 dives. Suit up get in hobble out. Repeat as needed. It helps when you live on a boat for 8 months of the year. Get off work, get out of the uniform, suit up and get wet. Eat breakfast, get wet. Get wet, eat lunch and get wet. Take a nap, get wet. Easy easy task when the water is directly under you and air is free.

We have been off the water for 3 years but just bought a slip. Our old one was in 35' of water. The one we just bought is over 70' to the muck.

Gary D.

 

[kalvyn]

In fact ... SnowBear, Uncle Pug, and I are leaving tomorrow morning for three days of diving in Vancouver Island ...

Hey, don't forget about me! I am SO looking forward to this trip, I really REALLY need a few days away form it all.

Jimmie