Burning out on SCUBA?

[Stone]

DFC5343 once bubbled...
Become a avid gamer. Eating what you catch is awesome. You can lobster, spearfish...its all good. I cannot for the life of me do photo shoots or sightsee. I have to get something to eat. Stay within guidelines for your area and never waste what you take. Its just a thought.

Unlike the stretch from West Palm to the Keys, we don't usually have great vis, or pretty fish and coral. We do have a decent selection of grouper, snapper, trigger, amberjack, snapper, flounder, and lobster. My wife and I started spearing about three years ago, and every trip is an adventure (especially when you throw some bullsharks in the mix).

 

[Mo2vation]

Put down your keyboards - its a joke.

I think its funny that this is leading all suggestions as a cure to dive boredom.

I'm also bored at the office...



I'm reaching that point soon (boredom, not aquecide.) Moving to a drysuit and BP/W rig, then thru DIR/F has helped, as right now I'm focused on precision. It makes a dull dive interesting as I roll through the drills, the kicks, etc.

As that is getting better, I can see down the road a departure point coming soon. I'll likely move my avid topside photography down undah in the next step.

Teaching isn't for me, and currently the whole tech-doubles-tri-mix-deco-hang-300' club thing is all lost on me. Me and spearing not su much. As as avid fisherman, I prefer fishing to marine wrestling with a pointy stick. No offense, but it has no draw for me.

K

 

[wapyaly]

Whalerkyle

at least you can go diving on a very regular basis. Living here in grim, damp, cold old Blightey, we savour a trip abroad to warmer climes to get to the warm water where the creatures are interesting. Who wants to look at a load of old pike all day right?

I'm sorry to hear that you got bored, but the guys have come up with some great suggestions to keep you interested. Spare a thought for us, who'd give anything to go diving every weekend, instead of twice a year!!

;-0

 

[flw]

wapyaly once bubbled...
Whalerkyle

at least you can go diving on a very regular basis. Living here in grim, damp, cold old Blightey, we savour a trip abroad to warmer climes to get to the warm water where the creatures are interesting. Who wants to look at a load of old pike all day right?

;-0

You obviously just need to move North to Scotland then
-always somewhere here if you're determined - though today with a F8 wind and horizontal rain the pub seems a much more sensible idea!

 

[IndigoBlue]

whalerkyle once bubbled...
I did 2 dives last night in a new area here in Southern Cali. and was boored both dives.

I have about 350 dives in my log book, and 42 of those dives were just in October.

Ive been diving since 2000.

350 dives in 3 years is a lot of diving.

42 dives in one month is really a lot of diving.

I certainly wish I could dive in Southern California (or New England) because lobster is my favorite food. For me, either one of those would be a major trip, but a fantastically rewarding experience. But are you also possibly getting tired of lobster meat?

You are lucky to live in Southern California and not some land-locked state or some muddy water shallow coastal area. You live in one of the top 10 most beautiful places in the world!

It sounds to me like you might just need to take the winter off from diving. Go skiing or snowboarding or something, and wait until spring to start dving again. Unless, of course, you get hungry for more lobster meat!

I have to agree with the fishermen, that nothing brings me more satisfaction than bringing home my own food, weather I have gathered pecans, or shot a buck, or fished for trout.

 

[ew1usnr]

flw once bubbled...
You obviously just need to move North to Scotland then

Do you guys ever go diving in Loch Ness?

 

[drbill]

I agree with Mo2vation... I'd be far more bored in an office than underwater. Good thing my "office" IS underwater.

I've done about 1,000 dives just in the Casino Dive Park on Catalina. I can't think of many dives that I've been bored on there (and especially not elsewhere in new sites). I almost always see something new on each dive- a new species, a new behavior; or I get new footage of a species I've seen hundreds of times.

There have been times in the past 41 years where I've stopped diving for various reasons, time being primary (mostly because of boring office jobs that such me in). I've always gone back to my childhood love of the sea.

Why did you get into diving? What was the original purpose? Has that changed? Do you need a new purpose (UW photography or video, hunting)? These are questions that may affect whether you stop or keep on diving.

Dr. Bill

 

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wapyaly once bubbled...
Whalerkyle

at least you can go diving on a very regular basis. Living here in grim, damp, cold old Blightey, we savour a trip abroad to warmer climes to get to the warm water where the creatures are interesting. Who wants to look at a load of old pike all day right?

I'm sorry to hear that you got bored, but the guys have come up with some great suggestions to keep you interested. Spare a thought for us, who'd give anything to go diving every weekend, instead of twice a year!!

;-0

Not quite sure where you dive in the UK but there is a lot of life, varied scenery and things to do. We've got reef, walls, drop offs, boulder fields, wrecks, kelp forests and more. Always variation.
Ive never seen a pike in open water though. I know a few people that wont dive abroad and a few more that prefer UK diving to warm water pretty colour diving.

who'd give anything to go diving every weekend, instead of twice a year!!

A lot of us in the UK do go diving every weekend not twice a year. Admittedly in the winter its hit and miss (both dives last weekend i had to touch my computer to my mask to read it) but you can dive all year round if dedicated enough.

 

[flw]

ew1usnr once bubbled...


Do you guys ever go diving in Loch Ness?

- I don't, but that's because I live in Shetland, most of my diving is in Shetland, Orkney and the Moray Firth/Caithness.
Winter months the plankton dies off and the vis is currently 15-20m and improving, it's always my favorite time of year

F

 

[ew1usnr]

flw once bubbled...
I don't, but that's because I live in Shetland, most of my diving is in Shetland, Orkney and the Moray Firth/Caithness.
F

I've seen on TV where some of the Lochs are hundreds of feet deep. They have found where prehistoric villages were built on platforms at the edges of some of them. They look beautiful and sound really interesting but I never hear about them being popular as dive spots. Is that because they are remote and difficult to get to? Is the water especially cold? Is the visability poor?