How old is too old?

[grumpie]

I guess I will have to quit, I will be 71 in afew months. Its realy hard to keep up with kids like gary. 07 only had 68 open water dives not including the 16 open water students. I have to hurry the check in time at the nursing home is 2100 hrs. Gary someone said you have a wheel chair with red lites and cyl rack on it. can I use it some time?
grumpie......

 

[Doc Intrepid]

A buddy of mine is around 73 and is an active divemaster. He's considering becoming an instructor. He's a great guy, very active, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.

I want to be like him when I grow up!

 

[Dirkadiver]

Like the old saying, "you're only as old as you feel" They'll be putting me down for a dirt nap before I hang up training/diving.

 

[Rick Murchison]

I want to be like him when I grow up!

Growing old is mandatory.
Growing up is optional.
Never forget...
Rick

 

[Doc Intrepid]

Heh...

You're right! It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

I started into my second childhood a couple years ago.

By my 70s I'll be well into my second infancy!

 

[stevephilanyc]

I was 51 when I did DM. I kept up with the two others (one in early 20s and one in mid-30s) who stayed in the class after the timed swim tests. I thought it was fun--and reinforcing. It's not age that matters--fitness and skill level are the issues.

Steve

 

[Nylorac]

Growing old is mandatory.
Growing up is optional.
Never forget...
Rick

Totally optional! At 46, I'm having more fun, exploring things (like diving, zip trekking, white water rafting, hiking jungle forests to find mystical waterfalls......!) that I wouldn't have dreamed of doing when I was younger. As Heinlein said "The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive"....so lets make the best of it at ANY AGE!

 

[Thalassamania]

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and enthusiasm!

 

[northen diver]

Granted I’m not an instructor in the terms of Recreational divers. But at 61 not a single member of my team was born when I started diving. I have to pass the POST (Police Academy) entrance PT exam twice a year along with the snot noses and not a one of them can stay with me in the water or getting ready to get in.

SO what’s this 45 crap?

This goes right along with another thread where the guy won’t dive with ANYONE who got certified in warm water.

Looking like some heads need to be pulled out of the sand. Times have changed and people are living and enjoying life a lot longer than even when I was a kid.

Gary (no walker in the dive gear) D.

Gary, please read my other post in this thread. I wasnt being for real. I am almost 47 and just did my DM four years ago. Thats why I had said I was speaking from experiance (making fun of MYSELF). Of course age has nothing to do with diving. I ran five 10 K's, two half marathons and one mini tri last year and there were many twenty year oldsr guys that I out ran, but yet, there were 50 ish guys that had out ran, biked and swam me.

Hey, what do you think about women being DM"s or instructors?............














I am kidding!!!!

 

[Teamcasa]

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and enthusiasm!

or

Youth is wasted on the young!