Info Should you look for a Good diver or a Good-Natured diver for your next trip buddy?

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Lucky you. I got stuck on a 14-hour drive (one way, and then 14 hours back) with a carful of divers whose politics and mine Did Not match up, and they jabbered nonstop about nothing but politics.

Noise canceling headphones + flute music.

 

[ECHIV]

My wife and son convinced me to try Diving. We travel better together when diving than we did before we learned to dive. I am blessed far beyond what I deserve.

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Requirement #1: doesn’t snore and isn’t completely gross (personal hygiene, body odour, doesn’t unplug P-valve next to my kit etc)

I think you need both once you start diving more demanding locations, or you will end up diving solo with an impediment aka nice but clueless buddy.

 

[CT-Rich]

It depends on what type of trip it is. If you are going to be doing challenging dives, you need a good dive buddy. If you are going to be puttering around reefs and sharing a room, a good companion. Easy on the eyes and easy virtue...

 

[RobPNW]

Don't let me drown, don't kick me in the face, don't stir up sand everywhere, don't smash the reef, don't piss me off, everything else is a bonus.

 

[stretchthepenn]

Yeah I didn't include in my travel buddy criteria a political alignment (or at the very least, a willingness to set that aside and discuss other stuff). But I guess I should have!

Yeah...if they'd talked about literally anything else, the trip would've been fine.

 

[Landau]

I’ve done liveaboards and resort trips solo several times always sharing a room or cabin.

Look for someone who doesn’t snore!

On one liveaboard each of my two cabin mates handed me earplugs. Not much sleep that week.

 

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I'd settle for having even one single diving trip buddy. I've had a couple of good random buddies off the internet (and lots of bad ones) but none whose schedules come close to matching mine.

 

[divezonescuba]

Before we started technical dive training, a group of divers from our shop when on a technical dive certification liveaboard trip with an instructor from a different shop and certification agency.

As they came into the shop one by one after the trip, I asked each how the trip went.

What was funny was that each of the divers declared that they would never dive with so and so or so and so again.

I heard this so many times, that It got to the point where I thought that any one of those divers probably shouldn’t be diving with themselves.

That was in fact, the last time any of them did do a technical dive.

 

[NothingClever]

technical dive certification liveaboard trip

Man, what a gamble.