Teen Diving Clubs

[Hawaii3390]

I am 17, and have been diving for almost 4 years, and have achieved the title of Master Scuba Diver just recently. However, I live in a landlocked state, Colorado, and enjoy any and every interaction with fellow divers; especially that of teen divers. I feel that we as teen divers have a level of maturity that exceeds most teens, due to the nature of our sport. This is why I tried to start a teen diving club at my high school, to no avail. Nevertheless, I am still determined to either join or start a club in Colorado where teen divers, or potential ones, can get together to discuss amongst ourselves new ideas, practices, equipment and contrast past experiences. Any ideas?

 

[gj62]

Try going through the stores in your local area - I would imagine the instructors would be able to put you in contact with their teen students.

 

[ZoCrowes255]

Try your local dive shop and see what they have going on or if they will sponsor something. I am 19 and I'm working on putting something together for my store that will have workshops and things like that for people around my age just to keep them interested. Our generation is not into diving as much as the last few have been. We're losing ground to snowboarding/car mod and racing etc. Diving just does not have the same image as these do. I'm trying to do my little bit to help change that.

 

[UCFDiver85]

I don't know about Colorado universities, but here in Florida every college has a Dive Club. I'm in the University of Central Florida dive club, and it's a blast. We have meetings, bbqs, speakers, and of course-dives. It's 20-25 of divers my age. You don't need to be a UCF student to join either. I duno if the same situation exists in Colorado, but it'd be worth a shot to find out.

 

[SamDiver14]

Maybe opening your dive club to others than just teens. You can still keep everything cool and interesting. My wife and I are divers but we are also parents. We certainly aren't teens but our local dive club seems to just be a bunch of old fogies getting around bragging about dive trips we can't afford to take. We would much rather hang out with a bunch of teen divers than old boring and tired divers. (Not that we don't have a lot of friends that are 50+ that are divers, they don't like the dive club either).