Liveaboard with fewer old people?

[Eric Sedletzky]

Old people are yucky to look at. Who needs to see wrinkles, sagging skin, varicose veins, etc.?

Then don’t look at them.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Then don’t look at them.

It's so rude not to look at people when talking to them

 

[Lorenzoid]

Then don’t look at them.

@agilis may need to avoid mirrors

 

[agilis]

@agilis may need to avoid mirrors

With the diligence of Dracula.

 

[Hoyden]

Old people are yucky to look at. Who needs to see wrinkles, sagging skin, varicose veins, etc.?

If the worst things that you have seen on a dive boat are wrinkles, varicose veins and sagging skin, I would guess that you haven't been on all that many dive boats. I would say that the worst I have seen includes divers with poor buoyancy and no respect for the environment...

 

[agilis]

If the worst things that you have seen on a dive boat are wrinkles, varicose veins and sagging skin, I would guess that you haven't been on all that many dive boats. I would say that the worst I have seen includes divers with poor buoyancy and no respect for the environment...

I did not write that age ravaged bodies were the worst things I've seen on dive boats. The list is long, and includes what you have mentioned along with divers who do not check their SPGs and run out of air annoyingly early, frequently clinging to a DM, bulging white-rimmed eyes round with fear; divers who think they are in some sort of race; and DMs who insist on trying to manipulate my cylinder's valve before entry. In any event I was being somewhat facetious since I am an old diver. A very old diver. A shockingly old diver.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

It's so rude not to look at people when talking to them

Then wear mirrored or dark sunglasses and face them when talking but either look away or close your eyes. Some things are so gross they can’t be unseen. One of them is old fat men in speedos.
!!!!!!No pictures please!!!!!

 

[chillyinCanada]

Friends don't let friends wear speedos.

 

[Scuba Lawyer]

Just saw this topic. I was involved in selling dive travel when liveaboards were just coming into vogue back in the mid to late 1970's into the early 1980s. I took a lot of liveaboard trips in my 20's and 30's (easily 20+) then life happened (wife, kid, career.....). Been on a few liveaboards since becoming an old fart diver. As a kid, I loved talking and diving with the old-time divers on board. As an old diver I really enjoy talking with young divers whose training, gear and philosophy of diving is usually so vastly different from mine. I keep an open mind and have discovered that 20-somethings like beer just as much as I do. M

 

[scubadada]

I don't think there would be many liveaboards without us old folks to pay the way