Post Mortem Required--Why Do You Dive?

[markmud]

Hello Bonaire Surgers,

No corpus or corpus dilecti required.

I am starting this thread to learn about and become acquainted with my Bonaire Surge crewmembers. Also, I am just plain interested in what makes divers tick...why do you dive?

May we keep this simple? I am hoping that people who join this thread can use this system for describing themselves in a percentage format (please alter the individual themes to match the results of your psychoanalysis):

1. Social Diver-
2. Gearhead/cert collector/ cert process junky/ camera guy/gal, etc.
3. Fishy/Coral person-
4. U/W geology nerd and wrecknut-

Example (I am the example):

1. 30% Social Diver. Last year while in Cozumel with Dolphin Scuba (all inclusive, our dive group ate together) Cathy and I were the Oceanic White Tips during lunch and dinner. Our MO was to grab a lone table, and then wait for our unknown-to-us victims to approach , we would then politely "bump" or verbally test them to see if they were amenable to becoming our lunch/dinner guests--we always got our prey and we had a BLAST! We gained quite a few new friends.
2. 15% Gearhead. I like my gear. I like it my way (while following the tenants of certified diving). I don't have high-end gear nor do I want it. I want what I have. I have an unorthodox rig--I don't swim with the school.
3. 25% Fish and Coral Person. I think I've seen dolphinfish swimming in St. Croix while U/W. I want to see marlin, tuna (bluefin, yellowfin, albacore, and blackfin), wahoo, and killer whales while scuba diving. The little reef fish swimming among the corals are cool too.
4. 30% U/W geology nerd and wrecknut. Show me a wall, or swim through, or spur and groove, or a blue hole, or a huge boulder field with some fish and coral and I have reached nirvana. I want to dive that stuff from 130 fsw to 50 fsw. Oh baby! The Oriskany, Spiegel Grove, Yukon, et allia are where it is at. No beat-up shallow reefs for me!

Grand Total: 1000% Vacation Diver!!! (Please change my moniker to your moniker.)

Thanks, and I hope this thread works as I am looking forward to forming relationships with Bonaire Surgers before seeing you in the Caribbean Netherlands!

markm

 

[Kharon]

-100% Social
+100% Fish and coral (90% fish 10% coral).
-100% Gearhead
0% geology nerd -200% Wrecknut

I'm not part of the surge (hate crowds and am antisocial) but I visit Bonaire as often as I can.

 

[markmud]

-100% Social
+100% Fish and coral (90% fish 10% coral).
-100% Gearhead
0% geology nerd -200% Wrecknut

I'm not part of the surge (hate crowds and am antisocial) but I visit Bonaire as often as I can.

Thanks for your response,

How do we quantify your response:

1. the mean;
2. the median;
3. or weighted average?

Thanks,
markm

 

[Kharon]

Thanks for your response,

How do we quantify your response:

1. the mean;
2. the median;
3. or weighted average?

Thanks,
markm

Let's call it 100% fish and coral.

 

[markmud]

Let's call it 100% fish and coral.

That is a great reason to dive! And in way, I am envious.
m

 

[Dish]

Mark,
Not sure that I can gauge my diving motivation to the categories that you stipulated. I started diving in the 70’s and got a bit bored with it. Now, it is simply an excuse to go to a warm beach with my sweet frau, who happens to be an Island girl. We enjoy the beach and we get to do something entertaining while we are there. Win-win. Social... sure. Gearhead... yeah, maybe. Fish and coral... if it were just sand plains (which I dove a lot of) we might not be too thrilled, so, yeah, we like fishies and coral. Geology and Wrecks... interesting only in passing. I might be an outlier... which is pretty much case in most things. Nonetheless, we are quite looking forward to this trip. Now that I think about it, my motivation for this particular trip is more social. I’d like to meet folks that I converse with on the Forums and Chat. Mrs Dish is happy to get warm sand between her toes... which also makes me happy.

 

[Jeff429]

Hi Mark,

I am not part of the surge although be in Bonaire next week (and always looking for dive buddys)

I dive for several reasons but I would break it down like this

50 percent mental health (slow breathing completely silent) I think it's better than meditation

25 percent I am going to call it coral and fish or the effort to find the perfect picture of coral and fish to put up on my wall

15 percent social I love meeting new people hearing about their dive story's and interesting place to go

10 percent gearhead i mean come who doesn't like to play with new toys

I do love vacation diving but I like diving at home too because a bad day of dive is better than a good day at work

 

[MaxBottomtime]

1. Social Diver- 0%
2. Gearhead/cert collector/ cert process junky/ camera guy/gal, etc. 10%
3. Fishy/Coral person- 80%
4. U/W geology nerd and wrecknut- 10%

I don't have a Facebook account and I rarely take photos of divers. I like to share photos and descriptions on Scubaboard of the animals I find during a dive as a way of educating others and encouraging them to dive these sites.
I carry a camera on every dive but I don't collect cards.
I like diving wrecks for the marine life on them. I read about the history of the wreck but once it's underwater I think of it as a piece of rust.

 

[markmud]

Mark,
Not sure that I can gauge my diving motivation to the categories that you stipulated. I started diving in the 70’s and got a bit bored with it. Now, it is simply an excuse to go to a warm beach with my sweet frau, who happens to be an Island girl. We enjoy the beach and we get to do something entertaining while we are there. Win-win. Social... sure. Gearhead... yeah, maybe. Fish and coral... if it were just sand plains (which I dove a lot of) we might not be too thrilled, so, yeah, we like fishies and coral. Geology and Wrecks... interesting only in passing. I might be an outlier... which is pretty much case in most things. Nonetheless, we are quite looking forward to this trip. Now that I think about it, my motivation for this particular trip is more social. I’d like to meet folks that I converse with on the Forums and Chat. Mrs Dish is happy to get warm sand between her toes... which also makes me happy.

Hi Dish,

"Win-win" I hope the four of us can share a table at dinner or lunch. Cathy and I will enjoy speaking and diving with you and Mrs. Dish.
markm

 

[markmud]

Hi Mark,

I am not part of the surge although be in Bonaire next week (and always looking for dive buddys)

I dive for several reasons but I would break it down like this

50 percent mental health (slow breathing completely silent) I think it's better than meditation

25 percent I am going to call it coral and fish or the effort to find the perfect picture of coral and fish to put up on my wall

15 percent social I love meeting new people hearing about their dive story's and interesting place to go

10 percent gearhead i mean come who doesn't like to play with new toys

I do love vacation diving but I like diving at home too because a bad day of dive is better than a good day at work

Hi Jeff 429,

When I solo dive I know the feeling that you are writing about (slow breathing, completely silent...yeah it is therapeutic).

markm