How old were you when you started diving?

[DiveMaven]

One cool thing about getting certified in my early 40s is that we can now afford to travel to a lot of great dive destinations!

 

[David_57]

48 years have been averaging 65 dives every year since.

 

[Airleron]

1986 @ 22 years of age. Wasn't that yesterday?

 

[Elonna]

38...and as many people have said, I wish I'd have started sooner

 

[Scubamike16]

I got certified when I was 23 and have been diving for 13 years and love this sport!!

 

[adurso]

Started when I was 10. Bought a card in '78 for fills. Then I bought another card because some boats wanted "advanced" certification........

 

[maranda1389]

I got certified right before my 21st b-day, so technically I was still 20.

 

[divndoc]

Started diving at age 12 in 1965. My family was making a road trip down the Florida keys and there was a sign on the side of the road, "learn to scuba dive." My dad stopped the car and handed me over to the guy giving the "class". No books, no dive tables, no certification agency. He put a tank on my back, told me not to hold my breath and we dove. Been diving ever since. I did a real certification class in college for PE credit in 1971. I have been diving dozens to hundreds of dives a year ever since that first "class." By the way, I have NEVER been asked to show a C card to fill tanks. Between age 12 and college, I filled tanks hundreds of times without a C card.

 

[Scubagolf]

At age 50 on a whim I did 12 dives on a "Club Med Certification" card. PADI certified the next year at 51; Nitrox at 55; AOW at 57; Rescue this past July at 59. Approaching 200 dives.

 

[tfsails]

I taught myself how to dive in 1971 at age 21 and made a "renegade" dive in Pennykamp using a set of doubles and a double-hose reg. I didn't touch diving again until I was 51 in late 2000 when I did it the "right" way and got certified in Curaçao.