The Cost of Diving

[Charlie99]

Equipment is the cheap part if you dive often. My amortized gear costs are less than $10/dive and going down, and thats even after buying 2 pieces each of the bulkier items like BC, fins and wetsuit.

It's the tropical vacactions that cost me, particularly when my wife comes along and wants a nice hotel. Airfare, car rental, nice dinners, and good hotel can push costs up above $250/dive on a 9 day 16 dive trip to Maui with my wife. Thats before the $60/dive boat charter costs.

 

[JDostal]

w/ 120 dives, I'm sitting around $50-60$ per dive...I'm NOT counting trip costs (yet) in all that. Of course, gear junky again. Tanks, H-Valves, redundant regulators, drysuit, masks, computer, fins, etc, etc, etc.....

 

[Big-t-2538]

MonkSeal once bubbled...


I found the solution: I sent her for OW training and everything was solved.

I don't see how that "cuts" cost....seems more like a "daily double" to me.

 

[HammerNoMore]

Big-t-2538 once bubbled...


I don't see how that "cuts" cost....seems more like a "daily double" to me.

It doesn't cut costs. It cuts spousal complaints about the cost.

James

 

[redacted]

Thankfully, it is so easy to reduce the cost ..... just dive more. So you would really be savingm money with next weekend's dives!

 

[scywin]

The cost of diving turns out to be much less than the cost of marriage.

This proves that I am actually saving money as a result of my divorce! LOL

 

[scubasean]

Lets see....

$2000 in gear for me, $2000 in furniture for the better half.

So, my total dive costs are $4K so far...

LOL

 

[JDostal]

H2OHead once bubbled...
I prefer to go blissfully along and rationalize diving...

*SNIP*

Man, that is just hilarious I'm so using that.

 

[klausbh]

$33

-Klaus

 

[double125's]

I'm waiting for a tec diver to post.
Doubles with HE
Stage w/02
charter out
cost of training classes
cost of redundant equipment
cost of all the equipment they bought before buying their tech gear