Question How old are you and how long certified? Poll- please take part!

[DavidFL]

74, certified 55 years.

 

[PietroT]

I turn 48 this year. Certified since 2018. About 200 dives so far.

 

[Jake 10]

there is no casting for certification totals

 

[Thrutch]

39 years old, first certified late 2018, 300-ish dives

The majority of my dives are solo, 90+ minutes with light deco, and in cold water. Lake Tahoe is my local body of water, currenty 39F/4C, and I dive year round. Like many of us, I got hooked pretty quickly. My main dive buddy ghosted me at the start of covid, so I started solo diving, now usually my preference. First tech certs last summer, though I'd been doing deco dives for about 2 years already on my own (doubles and sidemount, after copious amounts of reading and doing drills).

 

[scubadada]

69 years old, first certified in 1970 by LA County, 53 years. Did not log dives 1970-1980. Recertified in 1997, 2257 dives since then, going strong. @MaxBottomtime only 2253:30 for me, 93.9 days, 13.4 weeks

Bonus: I dived off @Wookie boat in 2015

 

[rhwestfall]

56, certified in 1988 in a college PE class (see bio for all details). History of local diving in the Eastern Great Lakes region, and an occasional dip in warm waters. Pandemic ruined us financially, so warm water travel is likely not going to happen again. I get in maybe 20 dives a year.

 

[jonhall]

Almost 68. Certified 1998 for a trip to Grand Cayman where I did the 4 checkout dives. Mainly because I had an aunt-in-law who lived in St. Croix, dives 5 and 6 came 7 years later in 2005 and dives 7-10 in 2007. In 2008, I started diving more each year, with 2 trips a year becoming common in 2012 after I retired. Have never done a dive in the continental U.S. - only Caribbean with some smatterings of Hawaii and Cabo.

 

[Searcaigh]

69 years young, 2,124 dives (2,162hrs 27mins), certified in 1991.

 

[Ross19966]

61. Certified in 1994. Dove commercially for 6 years back in the 90's. I've never logged dives but probably an average of 2 dives per day, 4 days a week for 6 years with some recreational dives between then and now.

 

[glennster]

first certified in 1971. just finished 2 months diving with conch republic divers in tavernier fl.