What's your "thing?"

[Eric Sedletzky]

Looks like this thread got revived, cool!
For me it changes.
When I started I was an abalone freediver, everything was about locating and prying off big abalone, and of course the feasting and living the life.
That grew into freedive spearfishing with a cheapo pole spear, then I got a decent gun.
Getting big lingcod was my thing.
Then came scuba which opened up a whole other world.
I built a boat and began exploring offshore pinnacles and reefs. I guess my thing then was being a terrain and wall freak. If they were overgrown with stuff and lots of fish the better. I used to get a lot of rock scallops.
Now my "thing" is purple urchin removal in one cove. For the last three years that's all I do every Sunday that's divable year around.
After that one particular cove is under control we will pick another cove. I have over 100 people involved in this effort, so building community is now my thing.
Not only are we clearing urchins so the kelp can come back but we're also trying to rebuild the local dive community after so many years of recessions, pandemics, and other setbacks.
So "my thing" is a lot bigger now than just personal diving gratification.

 

[grantmac]

I just like being in the water, preferably with a DPV so I can focus on the seascape going by.

But in terms of real focus I love wrecks and octopus. Both as photography subjects but also as objects of interest.

 

[MB NZ]

As per another thread:

Coming up to 1000 dives. A fraction of what many on ScubaBoard have done, but not an insignificant number. I've been lucky enough to have seen a lot of things and visited a lot of places. Not much excites me these days, but I still very much enjoy the feeling of being underwater, more so when I'm warm and the visibility is good! A camera always adds interest even in the most of barren of sites.