Scuba listed as one of the 5 most expensive hobbies

[t4e]

I did use my $1000 analyzer to test the air before I used it.

you bought the analyzer with the money you saved on the air fills? lol

 

[freewillie]

When I buy the new Atomic T3 that will be expensive. Look on my wife's face when I tell her how much it cost, priceless.

 

[drbill]

I'm a professional divebum. If I can afford it, most people with real jobs could too.

 

[DivemasterDennis]

I can think of many more expensive hobbies: art collecting; restoring a 1967 corvette, flying one's own vintage world war II airplane; equestrian activities ( that's owning and riding a horse); and so on. Even if scuba is expensive, there is a reason- IT'S WORTH IT. I am fighting a cancer right now, and sometimes reflect back on things in my past. I have some regrets, but I do not regret any scuba purchases, for equipment, for training for travel.
Divemaster Dennis

 

[FinnMom]

Hate to betray my sex, but I suspect there's truth to this:

My vote for most expensive hobby: women

 

[-hh]

I'm a professional divebum. If I can afford it, most people with real jobs could too.

And speaking of professional, the #1 claim for ballroom dancing was based on a $10K gown. Golly, that's six (6) minutes worth of IMAX film for Howard Hall...even before considering the cost of rebreathers and their gasses & sorb, far-flung travel, TONS of excess baggage, etc...

Even at the amateur level, it isn't that hard to be wearing $10k of stuff when jumping in the water for a dive - $2k in dive gear and another $8k worth of a housed dSLR...plus there's still the cost of the dive boat, fills, hotel room, airfare, etc..


-hh