I just don't feel like diving.....

[jsado]

YEEEEEAAAHHH....... how's that for different? Well, I just don't. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE scuba diving.....Where I live, the water is murky, usually polluted to the point where the feds step in and recommend we don't go swimming.....PLUS, at this time we have no boat. So, any dive will be a shore dive. A shore dive here means swimming out 2oo yards and still being in 20ft of water......and even when we do have access to a boat, so that we can get out to some deep water, all that we see is sand.....sand, sand and more sand.....no fish, no rocks, no wrecks....no anything.....45 minutes of looking at eachother and SAND.....I'm at the point where I don't even feel like it's worth putting my gear on....................

 

[ucfdiver]

Then don't! Never do a dive you're not into, IMO it's not safe.

 

[sschlesi]

Swimming around breathing underwater is pretty darn cool the first few times. After that, no critters, no joy. IMHO.

 

[Sas]

Swimming around breathing underwater is pretty darn cool the first few times. After that, no critters, no joy. IMHO.

IMHO, swimming around breathing underwater is still just as exciting (actually probably more so now I am more comfortable in the water) after 60+ dives. Even when I don't see anything

No viz, no critters, bad current, cold water, it doesn't worry me, I just like being underwater

But yea, if you aren't enjoying the type of diving available to you, give it a rest, diving is usually a lot of effort and not for everyone. Packing up the gear, getting up at an hour so early I never knew it existed before I started diving, driving for hours, kitting up in the freezing cold, diving in the freezing cold, dekitting up in the freezing cold, driving for hours home and then spending ages cleaning the gear...oh and then there is the expense! You have to be really love diving to keep it up, at least where I am from!

If you love certain types of diving (like the tropics, or wrecks) I'd be saving up and aiming for those types of dives and not diving locally if I was you.

 

[Dive-aholic]

I've never not felt like diving, but I have called dives because I wasn't into the conditions enough...too cold, too murky, etc. Although that hasn't happened all that often. Then I moved and it's all better. Sounds like you need a trip to the tropics.

 

[scuubaadoo]

as a fellow new yorker I know local lakes can be murky. How far are you from Lake George or the 1000 islands area? These might make good w/e trips. And yes you need to be excited about diving or it losses its luster. After about 12 years of diving Dutch Springs has been dived out for me, I have a great time camping and meeting people and a few dives. Much different from years ago when I did 5 dives on saturday and 4 on sun before driving 3 hours home to wash gear and crash.

Take a break, go to a new site. Try photography/video. Take a class. Join a club. If you have to, hang up the fins for awhile and come back when your excited again.

 

[diver 85]

YEEEEEAAAHHH....... how's that for different? Well, I just don't. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE scuba diving.....Where I live, the water is murky, usually polluted to the point where the feds step in and recommend we don't go swimming.....PLUS, at this time we have no boat. So, any dive will be a shore dive. A shore dive here means swimming out 2oo yards and still being in 20ft of water......and even when we do have access to a boat, so that we can get out to some deep water, all that we see is sand.....sand, sand and more sand.....no fish, no rocks, no wrecks....no anything.....45 minutes of looking at eachother and SAND.....I'm at the point where I don't even feel like it's worth putting my gear on....................

........move.........

 

[spectrum]

It's too bad that you don't have engaging dive sites nearby but as scuubaadoo points out at least you have some areas in the region that are really worthwhile. Now that you're past the fascination of diving anywhere no matter how mundane you need to plan for quality instead of quantity. Instead of diving every weekend hustle on the home projects so you can break away for entire weekends or long weekends up the road.

If the doldrums get too long a local dive for the sake of skills may not seem so bad.

Pete

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I think it's time for a weekend road trip. There is some great shore diving in Maine, or if you have the experience, wreck diving out of NY/NJ.

 

[Scott M]

YEEEEEAAAHHH....... how's that for different? Well, I just don't. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE scuba diving.....Where I live, the water is murky, usually polluted to the point where the feds step in and recommend we don't go swimming.....PLUS, at this time we have no boat. So, any dive will be a shore dive. A shore dive here means swimming out 2oo yards and still being in 20ft of water......and even when we do have access to a boat, so that we can get out to some deep water, all that we see is sand.....sand, sand and more sand.....no fish, no rocks, no wrecks....no anything.....45 minutes of looking at eachother and SAND.....I'm at the point where I don't even feel like it's worth putting my gear on....................

Which lake are you diving? When people say upstate they often times anything morth of the city. Upstate for me is Lake Champlain by the Canadian border.

Even in this lake a lot of if not most of the divers stopped diving it many years ago because there is just not a lot to see and it's dark. I was of the same mind for a while but then a few of my friends got me very interested in the lake again. They dive all the wrecks, do scavenger hunts for old bottles (you should see some of the stuff they brought up, really old and in prestine condition), in the fall they dive all the areas the boats hang out at all summer and bring up amazing finds like outboard motors, tons of anchors and all kinds of cool stuff and there are still a lot of artifacts waiting to be found. So I guess it is what you make of it. It's not warm blue water diving but I am starting to see the value in diving this old dark dirty lake.