How many times diving the same site?

[Rhone Man]

I have over 450 dives on the wreck of the RMS Rhone.

Some of the older local dive pros have over 2,000.

 

[GrimSleeper]

I've got a couple of hundred dives on several sites, because they're the places customers always ask for. But I'd be diving them over and over anyway... If there's one thing that always baffles me, it's the 'No, I'm not going back there, I've done that site' attitude quite a lot of vacationing divers seem to have. A dive site is NEVER the same place two dives running, and it's amazing what you can miss by only going somewhere once...

 

[scubadada]

I'm a vacation diver, despite that, I have 20 dives on the Spiegel Grove and 19 on the Duane. I'd love to increase those numbers substantially, no 2 dives are the same.

Good diving, Craig

 

[TSandM]

Even diving in the caves, where things really DON'T change (or one hopes they don't, anyway, because for the most part, changes are diver-induced and not positive) I see more every time I dive the same passage. When we dove Cozumel, we requested to go back to Paradiso several times, because the dives there were quite simply fabulous. In the Brother Islands, we did the same dive three times, but we did different depth profiles and all three dives were fun, and not at all the same.

 

[Teamcasa]

I have dived Catalina island hundreds of times and it's still different and exciting. I look forward to diving it a few thousand times more.

 

[ZenDiver.3D]

I dive the same set of sites here year round, running our boats. I still find something new every dive. And when you dive it at night, it is a whole different site.

I suggest diving in low vis. It will make you a very calm true navigator. Take your time, go very slowly, and you will still find things. It's like a treasure hunt. I enjoy any dive, soup or clear.

 

[Belce]

Ogden Point Breakwater Victoria BC, 15 minutes to walk from my place with my gear

 

[Peter Guy]

From looking at my log it is obvious my favorite site, at least by the number of dives, is "The Office" aka Cove 2. Why? Well as TSandM wrote, it offers so much -- lots of critters (never really know what you'll see); wonderful facilities (parking, bathrooms, friendly cafe); beautiful views; lots of people. I have 25% of my total dives (800+) there -- and 10% of my dives this year (160) were there as fun dives (and probably another 20% as training/professional dives). Oh yes, it is also 30 minutes from my house -- not as good as Redondo for NWGD but pretty darn good!

Here are some of the reasons:

The view from the water:

Just one of the normal critters found, the Giant Pacific Octopus:

The dive isn't over at Cove 2 until it is over -- this was in about 10 feet as we were about to exit:

And I could go on and on.

Shouldn't every diver have a convenient site like this?

 

[TV Mark]

In the states we dive the Foundation at Beaver Lake in Arkansas. Its one of the clearest
sites on Beaver Lake. I've dove it 10-20 times. Go Chiefs!

 

[DennisS]

I have a beach and reef about a mile from where I live, with a dive shop in between. I have a yearly parking passfor the beach. I dive it a lot and I never know what I will see.