Lucky you ! I'm jealous... 53 also, but been diving only for 35 years.
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I may have posted this before, but I’m now 79 years old, and was certified in 1963, LA County. But I began diving in 1959, actually. So by counting on my fingers, I’ve been diving for 66 years now.
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souladdikt
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- I just don't log dives
I got certified when I was 31. I'm 48 now. Can't believe it's been 17 years.
elgringoperdido
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50-59. Looks like we quinquagenarians form a plurality, at nearly 24%.
Certified 25 years ago. But I guess I don't really dive much. After 25 years I have only ~300 logged dives. I guess I don't like the cold, black water, and that's all we have around here. 45°F or so even in the summer, with maybe 3 feet visibility. I have a dry suit and a backplate rig and doughnut, but I only rarely make those dives. Sometimes with Gypsy Blood Divers on the Jersey coast, and sometimes in the rivers and quarries in eastern PA. Mostly I prefer the tropics, and that's a long and expensive trip so I only dive 15 or so cylinders per year. But I love diving. For many years before I was certified I'd take a mask and fins and go down to 20 feet or more searching for treasure, or just to observe.
Deepest dive: 340 feet.
Shallowest dive: 11 feet.
Longest dive: 3 hours 15 minutes.
Number of times I shat in my wetsuit: 1 (horrible experience)
Number of times I had to abandon a sinking diveboat: 1 (also a horrible experience)
Number of times I completely exhausted my breathing mixture and had to reach for another diver's secondary: 1 (Best. Dive. Ever. Lightening storm above and the DM said we had to stay down no matter what. Saw a pod of 7 black dolphins swim within a few feet of me. Described it as a "school of dolphins" but there was a marine biologist on that dive and she promptly corrected me. Fish come in schools; dolphins are mammals: they come in "pods". Fair enough.)
Certified 25 years ago. But I guess I don't really dive much. After 25 years I have only ~300 logged dives. I guess I don't like the cold, black water, and that's all we have around here. 45°F or so even in the summer, with maybe 3 feet visibility. I have a dry suit and a backplate rig and doughnut, but I only rarely make those dives. Sometimes with Gypsy Blood Divers on the Jersey coast, and sometimes in the rivers and quarries in eastern PA. Mostly I prefer the tropics, and that's a long and expensive trip so I only dive 15 or so cylinders per year. But I love diving. For many years before I was certified I'd take a mask and fins and go down to 20 feet or more searching for treasure, or just to observe.
Deepest dive: 340 feet.
Shallowest dive: 11 feet.
Longest dive: 3 hours 15 minutes.
Number of times I shat in my wetsuit: 1 (horrible experience)
Number of times I had to abandon a sinking diveboat: 1 (also a horrible experience)
Number of times I completely exhausted my breathing mixture and had to reach for another diver's secondary: 1 (Best. Dive. Ever. Lightening storm above and the DM said we had to stay down no matter what. Saw a pod of 7 black dolphins swim within a few feet of me. Described it as a "school of dolphins" but there was a marine biologist on that dive and she promptly corrected me. Fish come in schools; dolphins are mammals: they come in "pods". Fair enough.)
+1 for this word that I never knew existed in my own native language. +1 more for your career summary (I bet there are some interesting stories there...)
You aren't the one doing the "Warhammer maneuver," are you?
Ohh.. you wrote THAT word.. In the old days of SB, you would get a banned!
Eric_K
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Certified in 1985. Couple of hundred dives (<400) over the years.
Swampthing!
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I was 18 when I got my Open Water Certification... That was 20 years ago... As for how many dives? Not sure... Lost my logbook overboard... Been awhile since I was in the water... I intend to get back at it this year...
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