I suspect there'd still be a few but there wouldn't be as many expensive lob's, without the older divers.
Liveaboard with fewer old people?
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I suspect there'd still be a few but there wouldn't be as many expensive lob's, without the older divers.
drrich2
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Seeing how old this thread is, I figured maybe those inconvenient oldsters had died off since it started. Then I remembered I turned 50 awhile back. Now I can't wait to book a live-aboard and fuss at a whipper snapper. 'Get off my reef...!'
I have to confess I would be uncomfortable diving with people 30 years my senior.
Trying to be funny...
Perhaps we should start a posting...
Liveaboard with fewer new divers - fewer single tank divers - fewer young people (50 years old and younger)?
hahaha
Perhaps we should start a posting...
Liveaboard with fewer new divers - fewer single tank divers - fewer young people (50 years old and younger)?
hahaha
Eric Sedletzky
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I was only in my late 50s when a young student came to my office for a makeup exam. She saw my fishing rod in the corner and exclaimed "I think it's wonderful that you still go fishing!"
I suspect that a lot of young divers have a similarly distorted perspective. Older divers are an uncomfortable reminder of what awaits them in a future only a couple of dozen summers away. The transience of youth is something they tend to avoid acknowledging. Older divers interfere with the illusion.
I suspect that a lot of young divers have a similarly distorted perspective. Older divers are an uncomfortable reminder of what awaits them in a future only a couple of dozen summers away. The transience of youth is something they tend to avoid acknowledging. Older divers interfere with the illusion.
I would be very interested in diving and chatting with a centenarian. I would want to know their secret so I could keep diving another 65 years.
(Of course, their secret would probably be something like "drink a fifth of Wild Turkey a week, smoke two packs a day, play chicken on the railroad tracks, and get hella lucky." Isn't that always the way of it?)
(Of course, their secret would probably be something like "drink a fifth of Wild Turkey a week, smoke two packs a day, play chicken on the railroad tracks, and get hella lucky." Isn't that always the way of it?)
I am pretty sure I won't find too many as I am approaching 72 but I do hope to dive for many years yet.
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