Is your spouse/so your dive buddy?

Is your spouse/s.o. your dive buddy?

  • Yes my spouse/s.o. is my dive buddy

    Votes: 161 65.7%

  • No my spouse/s.o. is not my dive buddy

    Votes: 66 26.9%

  • Don't have spouse/s.o. but it would be important to me

    Votes: 12 4.9%

  • Don't have spouse/s.o. but it would NOT be important to me

    Votes: 6 2.4%
  • Total voters
    245
  • Poll closed .

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My wife and I dive together often, but we're not always each other's dive buddies. I'm a lot more involved in diving than she is, for one thing ... so I tend to dive a lot when she's not diving.

When she is in the water, I'm her "usual" dive buddy. But sometimes she enjoys diving with one of our other friends. She's into photography, so sometimes she likes going out with someone in the local underwater photo club. Other times, she just enjoys a "ladies night out" kinda dive (sometimes for those I'll do "shore patrol").

We both enjoy diving a lot. We enjoy each other as dive buddies. But we've also got a fairly wide circle of diving friends, and sometimes it's fun to just go our separate ways with someone else.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
 
Fortunately for me my wife can be talked into about anything. I'm the one gets the wild hairs, but she's always willing to go along. I like having her as a buddy, I think were more in tune to each other than most buddies, hopefully that's not too distracting, could be an issue. Next year she wants to take flying lessons, which I have always thought about doing, so I'm really excited about that. Who knows what's next:confused:
 
My wife and I are a team for everything..... hiking, canoing, drive trips, camping, hunting, shooting, etc., however, until recently we havent been able to dive together... she's been pregnant! ;) Finally, as we are nearing our 2nd anniversary and our son being 6 months old we are getting to dive together for the first time and I can't wait to do something together that we've both done for half our lives previous. :)
 
CBulla once bubbled...
My wife and I are a team for everything..... hiking, canoing, drive trips, camping, hunting, shooting, etc., however, until recently we havent been able to dive together... she's been pregnant! ;) Finally, as we are nearing our 2nd anniversary and our son being 6 months old we are getting to dive together for the first time and I can't wait to do something together that we've both done for half our lives previous. :)
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Same here - wouldn't have it any other way!
Almost nothing we don't do together including work.
 
While dating my husband I taught him to swim and float so he could learn to dive. I enjoyed the beach on our first Caribbean trip to Tobago while he did his open waters. He went to the Bahamas with the LDS, then to Grand Cayman. That's all it took for me to realize that I needed to get certified. We did my open waters in the Bahamas with the LDS, then took a 2 week trip to Bonaire together with friends from Europe. Took a great trip with Blackbeard's, I almost got kissed by a shark, he was jealous, I'm trying to get that picture posted with my profile but no luck yet. We took a 3 week trip to Curacao and that is where he proposed. Next trip was Cozumel, then on a return to Curacao I had to get him other buddies because I was with child. That's hard to sit out on diving. When the little one was 8 months old we took her to Cozumel, but we had to dive at different times in order to care for her. We recently moved to the Pensacola area, but again I'm with child, so he's looking for new buddies again. Someday we will get to dive together again and I can't wait. It's is wonderful to share the beauty of the sea with him.
 
... thats all I saw, whilst I was managing a very big dive center in Egypt.
Then I realised they were accompanied by some very hairy and equally long legs in the form of her father.

Now, boys and girls, I tell you, it was the most difficult hour of my entire life. I had to concentrate on her father whilst having these looooooooooooooooooooooong legs in my field of view.

After an hour they left, and I committed the most heinous crime I could think of, I rearranged the entire teaching schedule so that I could teach for the next three weeks the courses I had sold to these pair - and boy did I get into greif.

I then spent a great week back in the UK after 10 years, and decided it was love.

... and Scubababy and I have been together ever since. 3 years, 3 weeks and 4 days later ....

In that time we have only dived together 4 times since. Booo hiss!! She refuses to dive in the UK (dont blame her really ...)
So I have to do it for both of us.
 
I had never done any diving with anyone but my husband until my two oldest sons got certified recently. Now I have to buddy with one of them when the four of us go. This summer I went to Utah without my husband so I took the boys one at a time diving, and I really missed not having my husband with me.

But every year my husband and I take a vacation by ourselves. Never used to take much of a vacation until we started diving four years ago; now we plan our trips around diving, though we also check out all the other things to see/do where ever we go. I think diving has strengthened our relationship. :rainbow:

We used to snow ski together. I grew up 15 miles from a ski resort, but I'll take diving over skiing any day now! :)
 
No, she can't equalize. I dive with whomever I can find.
 
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