I am fairly experienced as a UK diver.
Having been down the Pay Another Dive Instructor route I transferred into the biggest dive club in the world. BSAC. The British Sub Aqua Club. Since then I became an instructor, acquired an ITDA trimix ticket to 70m, Oh and notched up several hundred dives.
I do about 50 dives a year on a poor year. 2007 was pants, only 53 dives. You have to live in the UK to appreciate depressions.....
Not exactly new to forums.
I am off to Castro's world in July, so I might be asking the odd question about diving there