Question Recreational Divers: What are the biggest problems you face in this sport?

[Mako33]

Wondering what some of the biggest pain points are for everyone. Fogged up mask? Underwater communication?

 

[Wathdoc]

My buddy

 

[davecampbell]

money....it's always money

 

[Eric802]

Finding time to dive.

 

[bork-it]

Asking people on forums the best way to do something.........

 

[DreadnoughtNH]

Since I've solved my fogging mask issue (polishing using a Magic Eraser between dives, btw), I'd say it's a tie between money for dive trips, and taking time off of work to take those trips.

Sadly, one has a dramatic effect on the other....

 

[mattfish]

I have to agree with the “time off” and “money” comments. Those are the biggest problems I have. If I had to pick a problem while diving I’d say deploying a dsmb, since I don’t practice that enough. Up until about dive 50, the biggest problems were proper weighting and air consumption. But those aren’t problems now.

 

[MidOH]

Trim. Especially during a valve drill.
Or while I switch strokes, perfectly flat flutter, to parachute trim frog kicking.

Do people sometimes call buoyancy, trim? Because there's a ton of talk about buoyancy training. But buoyancy is cake.

 

[LI-er]

Rapidly diminishing quality of dive sites. Among other factors, overfishing depleting marine life, bleaching killing corals, and hurricanes and micro organisms causing rapid deterioration's of once spectacular shipwrecks.

 

[rx7diver]

Age. I'm thinking I have only another dozen (or so) years to do this.

rx7diver