Why Diving & Not Tennis?

[lwronk]

It is a whole new world to me. I just like being underwater and exploring where most people don't go. No one will play tennis with me because I hit the ball at their heads if they rush the net.

 

[Whatgoesdown]

Not too many jobs provide a physical and a mental challenge on a daily basis. Every day in the water is different. Somebody once told me to look for something new on every dive and I still haven't run out of things to look at!

 

[Gidds]

Because tennis involves wearing a SKIRT! :yuck:

 

[laivindil]

I'm 19 so I'm invincible

For me it's multiple things. It's challanging mentally and physically. It's something not everyone can do. I am a very curious person so exploring a new world is like a kid taking to candy. Travel opprotunities are good. It's peaceful.

I'm actually a type "B" pesonality but enjoy a lot of dangerous/adventurous activities.

 

[jonnythan]

But how far are you prepared to push your diving? People climb Mt.Everest [believing that they will be OK - many who are not fully proficient for such a climb but have
US$60,000 to pay a guide] when the hard cold statistics are that historically 1 in evry 2 climbers on Everest will die.

Wow that's some mega-BS!!!! Thousands of people climb Everest a year! 1 in 2?!

I'll push my diving as far as I have to. I can see myself doing relatively long dives in the 150-200' range in the next 2-3 years, perhaps more beyond that. I'm a pretty serious caver and manage to fit that in, and I plan on getting seriously into baseball this coming year and I'll see how far that takes me as well.

I know we all love being in the water, but some divers [specifically technical divers & cave divers] are constantly pushing the boundaries of their personal safety and I find the pyschology of their self belief and confidence in their abilitities [their motivations as well] fascinating.

Some of these people visit Scuba Board and I would love to hear their personal thoughts on what drives them.

Are they adrenalin junkies, control freaks, tech heads, or just pioneers and adventurers?

I dunno about THEM, but I'm not an adrenaline junkie.. I just love doing these things because.... well, they're fun! I like excelling at things. I love hitting the ski slopes, and I always have a huge grin on my face after I tear up some glades. It's the same kind of grin I'd get when solving a tough physics problem or doing a good job getting one of our main routers back up and running.

I'm not sure what it is exactly I enjoy.. perhaps the achievement, or the satisfaction I get from being able to do something well.

 

[Jamdiver]

This isn't exactly a thoughtful or well reasoned response.
But I'll say this..

Diving kicks ***!
End of discussion

Continue diving and after a while just being around in air, walking etc.. will feel weird!
Lol, :14:

 

[Diver0001]

I know we all love being in the water, but some divers [specifically technical divers & cave divers] are constantly pushing the boundaries of their personal safety and I find the pyschology of their self belief and confidence in their abilitities [their motivations as well] fascinating.

Some of these people visit Scuba Board and I would love to hear their personal thoughts on what drives them.

Are they adrenalin junkies, control freaks, tech heads, or just pioneers and adventurers?

There is music in the precision.

.... and a *little* risk isn't necessarily a bad thing .... I certainly don't think of myself as an adrenaline junkie or a control freak (I'm type B) but if it were boring I probably wouldn't do it...

What motivated me to go a little further wasn't the kick, though. It was that I don't get out to dive on North Sea wrecks every weekend and when I'm there I want to make the dives as interesting as I can.

Everyone's motivations are different. I know someone who does it because he figures chicks will dig him because he makes 40 minute deep air dives. And his gear looks all nice and DIR so he must know what he's doing... right?

R..

 

[Green Hand]

Wow that's some mega-BS!!!! Thousands of people climb Everest a year! 1 in 2?!

Jonnythan, your quite correct - my late night typing was very incorrect. As at 1999 the number of people who had summited Everest was 630 and the number who had died trying was 144, equating to a rate of 23% [nearly 1 in 4].

If you account for the total number of people climbing in all the Himalayan peaks of Nepal it drops dramatically [thank God] to 2.9%.

Sourced from Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air.

 

[jonnythan]

Jonnythan, your quite correct - my late night typing was very incorrect. As at 1999 the number of people who had summited Everest was 630 and the number who had died trying was 144, equating to a rate of 23% [nearly 1 in 4].

If you account for the total number of people climbing in all the Himalayan peaks of Nepal it drops dramatically [thank God] to 2.9%.

Sourced from Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air.

From 1990 to 2001 there have been 1211 summits and 66 deaths, giving 1 in 18. The numbers in 98, 99, and 00 were more like 1/30 or 1/70 than 1/4.

 

[ScubaTwo]

Im an introvert so diving is perfect for me. Its quiet, peaceful, interesting and always beautiful. My bumper sticker says "My husband will leave me if I go diving one more time. Im sure gonna miss him". I guess thats it in a nutshell lol.

Oh and I love being near or in water always.