How do so many folks have so many dives

[rhwestfall]

My best dive years are 20 local dives, and I have been to warm water two weeks in 25 years.... yeah, it sucks.....

I hate all of you!

 

[gekodivebali]

Liveaboards, liveaboards, liveaboards! If you do 4 dives a day, 4 weeks a year, you get quickly to more than 110 a year. Then add in a few local dives every week-end and you can close in on 200 dives a year. You quickly see that it's hard to have more Than this, even when diving is all you do in your free time .
The exception is for dive pros doing multiple dives in a day, either on LOB or doing tons of intro dives for most of the year.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Unfortunately I start work at 4:30 in the morning so night dives are few and far between. Other than while on vacation I haven't made a night dive in about seven years. It's hard to log dives when you can only dive on the weekends during the day.
At the same time, I've never made more than three dives in a day, and even that is rare.
I averaged about 125 dives per year my first couple of years, then began working 40-56 hours per week at my full time job, 38 hours on the weekend at my "part time" job and college three days per week. My average shot down to 35 dives per year during that time. My average now is 117 for the past eight years. I should get to 5,000 dives by the time I'm 90.

Yes but, well ... you take fantastic pictures, so I'm assuming that you're enjoying yourself ... and that's what matters.

I am very lucky. I get out of work at 3:15, can be home, packed, and at the dive site by 4:30, in the water by 5 and back home in time for dinner ... which I normally do a couple times a week on weeknights.

My biggest problem is that after a while my pictures start to get a bit repetitive ... I suspect the critters start thinking "here he comes again" ... but I doubt I could find anyone who'd feel particularly sorry for me ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[tstormdiver]

I'm a bit perplexed at looking at some folks profiles and seeing the amount of dives listed. I wholly understand dive instructors.....they are in the water doing pool sessions, guiding students week in and out. What I dont understand is folks in the midwest who have 2000 dives.


Granted, im closing in on 5 years of diving. Surely a lot of folks eclipse me by many fathoms, year wise. Ill admit in relative terms, I am a new diver.

However, I have access to diving 365 days a year. For the most part, I have dove (minimally) every single weekend for the last four years.

Question posed. How do some folks have so many dives without access all of the times? Diving in January in Des Moines is not a reality.

I have been diving for 8 yrs, live in KY & just completed my 1000th dive a couple weeks ago. How did I do it, being so land locked? I just dove. A vast majority of my dives are in a quarry about 80 mi away. Yes, I am an instructor, but no, I do not log pool dives. I do log any OW/ teaching/ cave/ Tech or rebreather dives I do outside of the pool. If I did count the pool, I would likely be pushing 3000 dives. I do dive year round, though it does slow considerably during the winter. I still remember when I went to Malaysia a few years ago. In the 10 diving days we had, I did 42 dives on that trip.

 

[Octopusprime]

I was taught that if the dive is not deeper than 20ft for a min of 20 min it does not count. Never count pool dives as dives. I did not even count my rescue scenarios as dives.

However when im on a mission to be underwater I can do 5 dives a day burning 4 tanks a great weekend is when my wife lets me do it 2 days in a row. The quiet is sooo relaxing just me and the sound of my bubbles...

 

[mrdre]

Dives count is like virtual coins in some online casino: nobody cares how much you have, but when you reach some number - it makes you feel good. The whole point of diving becomes earning these coins..

 

[rivers]

I was taught that if the dive is not deeper than 20ft for a min of 20 min it does not count. Never count pool dives as dives. I did not even count my rescue scenarios as dives.

However when im on a mission to be underwater I can do 5 dives a day burning 4 tanks a great weekend is when my wife lets me do it 2 days in a row. The quiet is sooo relaxing just me and the sound of my bubbles...

There is a local shore dive, that even at high tide, you'd be hard pressed to hit 20 feet. But it's still a dive, and a lovely little dive at that.

 

[oldschoolto]

The " OLD " logbook number question.... LOL ... I do not log ... skydives or scuba dives... Never did and never will, I don't need to impress anyone...

I do log pilot time and reserves parachutes packed because it's the law to do so... Flying time is just total for the day and number of take-offs all written on one line...

But if I did log scuba dives... Every time I got wet would be a dive... Just as every time I got out of the airplane would be a jump.... !800' hop & pop or 15,000' world record jump....

Time / numbers mean $hit.... Give me 5 minutes and I'll know if you know what you say you know....

Jim....

 

[Kevrumbo]

I'm a bit perplexed at looking at some folks profiles and seeing the amount of dives listed. I wholly understand dive instructors.....they are in the water doing pool sessions, guiding students week in and out. What I dont understand is folks in the midwest who have 2000 dives.

Granted, im closing in on 5 years of diving. Surely a lot of folks eclipse me by many fathoms, year wise. Ill admit in relative terms, I am a new diver.

However, I have access to diving 365 days a year. For the most part, I have dove (minimally) every single weekend for the last four years.

Question posed. How do some folks have so many dives without access all of the times? Diving in January in Des Moines is not a reality.

I see you're in the Marshall Islands . . .would you happen to be a member of the most active Scuba Club in the Pacific???

Kwajalein Scuba Club
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMjGbfqmhw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWdyx-MSz7k

 

[Centrals]

Have you dived the Bikini Atoll as well?
I really wish I can afford it.