Why do you dive?

[chillyinCanada]

For the pure joy of it . . .and most of the other reasons already mentioned.

I also like to challenge myself to do better too. . . get my trim just right, my body in correct position, my kicks most effective, efficient and least likely to disturb, my breathing into a total zen so that others start to envy my consumption, find the smallest critter or the most special.

 

[divad]

To stop language from speaking me.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

To kill and collect things to eat

 

[SeaHorse81]

To be weightless, free, and to just be.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I've been told by those who know me that I don't know how to relax ... except when I'm underwater. I think it's a combination of things ... the ability to move in three dimensions, the escape from gravity, the perception narrowing that comes from putting a mask over my eyes, the lack of distractions from phones, traffic, internet, or conversation. Diving gives me the opportunity to temporarily suspend the day-to-day routine things that dominate my life and just focus on the here and now.

Then there's my other passion ... photography. So many interesting subjects beneath the sea ... so much that I can share with my non-diving friends that they've never seen before. And still ... after more than 3600 dives ... so many things that I've never seen before. It's a lifetime of new experiences.

Diving helps me age gracefully. It motivates me to live a healthy lifestyle and keep my body in shape, so I can continue doing it well into my senior years.

It's given me dear friends that I would never have met if I didn't dive. It provides me with reasons to travel the world, visiting places I otherwise might never think to go. It's given me useful knowledge that sometimes transfers into other aspects of my life. Diving's like a life partner ... it fulfills me in ways that no other activity ever has. I have a hard time imagining my life without it ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Bob DBF]

Because I still can after 50+ years.

Add all of the above posts with an emphasis on flying like Superman.

I have checked all of the above except the joy of teaching and making connections, not that I haven't mentored or made connections but that was never the plan at the time, I'm more a solo diver by nature. My experience with commercial, scientific, and history/archeology has been tangential and only by being at the right place at the right time, and being able to dive.


Bob

 

[fjpatrum]

All of the above, even as a rec diver.

 

[beester]

Bob that was pure poetry.

 

[drbill]

Because I still can after 50+ years.

Likewise, but you might as well ask why I breathe? I can't imagine life without it

 

[Littlerayray]

For the adventure and it's not a mainstream sport