What Age Did You Start Diving

[Wisnu]

I started at 40s but my daughter1 at 11.

 

[diver 85]

Age 32........20 years too late....wife @ 30, all the kids(3) @ 12 like it should be...lol.........OW all the way on all 5.............GEAUX TIGERS............

 

[marcienko]

Hi I started about a year ago at 33.

 

[DeepSeaDan]

...tender age of 14.

...Commercial Deepsea Diver @ 21

DSD

 

[lifeisfullofgooddives]

I had to wait until 20! I wanted to get certified @16 but my parents (who know nothing about diving) thought they knew everything, and said no way.

This was especially funny to me since all of my dad's friends dive, and since my certification I have been diving with them many times...

 

[MGW1979]

Tried it out in a pool when I was 5 and I wouldn't come out! When I was 12 I did a discover scuba kind of dive on the great barrier reef. I got certified a few weeks before my 16th birthday, almost 12 years ago.

 

[Tom Winters]

I was 9. I used my uncle's regulator that was made in 1955, and with the NOAA Diving Manual, taught myself since instructors were a little rare then.

 

[Buoyant1]

40 I was in Key West for my 40th B-day and went on a very cool snorkelling trip. I had a friend that was certified who told me how to get started, a dive shop opened up about two miles from my house, and the rest is history!

 

[Homunculus]

i started diving when 30 but i'll make sure the little one will learn earlier

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

My wife talked me into trying a 'resort course' in 1998 when I was 36. She got her OW in college and AOW right after she finished college, so a much earlier age than I did. Got my OW the next year, AOW (because it was required to get Nitrox cert then) and Nitrox the year after that, then entry level tech (no helium) in 2003. We'll likely plateau here as far as certs go. Our diving is always 'recreational' - something we do for fun.