How long have you been diving?

[ZoCrowes255]

I'm just curious. I like places like this because you can run the spectrum from dinosaur to newly certified. I am a relative newbie myself (compared to others.) I started diving in 1995 at the age of 12. Right now I have my NAUI Divemaster and my I am heading out for my ITC in less than an hour.

How about you guys?

 

[wheezy]

You should've made it a "Poll" In fact I think there already is one floating around somewhere...

But I'm just a young lad... going on 3 years now... but I dive A LOT

 

[Diver Kat]

Have just been diving 7 months ...... still a rookie!

 

[wolfpack]

got certified when I was 15, naui / padi, it was all the same back then, ew did not worry about all his open water stuff, those certs we basically advanced open water class one. nitrox now, looking at cave and mix next

 

[Vyper]

but was just a student back then. financially constrained to dive more often. 'got more serious 5 years ago. never turned back since then. hoping to get my ITC next year.

 

[Amanda]

I started diving in 1998, I was 16 yo then LUV it...

 

[roakey]

On July 1st of this year it'll be thirty years of diving.

Roak

 

[chickdiver]

OW cert at age 15- 16 years ago.
Divemaster at 21
Instructor at 22
Full Cave at 24
Trimix at 25

 

[caymaniac]

I've been diving since 1981, I guess that's 22 years of diving. When I was a kid I used to love to watch Sea Hunt. Once for a birthday, my Mom bought me a sub with a couple of frog men. One day at the beach I saw a frogman come out of the channel with two bunches of fishing rods, I thought to myself," I wonder what else is down there". One year i received a pair of fins and a mask and snorkel. The snorkel had a ping pong ball in the top to keep the water from coming down the tube.......primitive, but the dream was alive. A bunch of time went by. We used to ski out west every year when my wife stated she wanted a "warm vacation". That vacation was in 81',......I snorkeled on Grand Cayman
Yeehaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!, in 84, my wife got certified , I've only taken a couple of ski vacations since then.

Dive Safe,
Caymaniac

 

[cyklon_300]

at Bedrocks State Park, OR....max depth 24'...this was my self-taught OW class check dive...and I passed!

Didn't give myself a c-card, tho....

Presently working on Adv Nitrox/Deco (but using a real instructor for these)....