Suggestion 10,000+ dives

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northernone

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Minor suggestion.

My own curiosity has me wondering which users have significantly more than the 5,000+ maximum dive count. Wondering if people would use an updated upper limit?

Noticed the 'I don't log dives' is also popular with the heavily experienced. Perhaps along the lines of the 'scuba legend' designation in a lesser way I`d love the idea of recognizing at a glance those who have dedicated such a significant part of their life to getting underwater.

That's the idea.
Cameron
 
Don't instructors get to dive for fun other times? :wink: I was certified at 11 and am 66 now. I don't have 10K dives but have less than two months in tropical water. I bet there are born & bread citizens in the South Pacific and Caribbean that break the the 5-digit mark before being a grandparent.
let me quote the entire paragraph, I addressed your counterpoint

"even counting class dives.. that is 3 dives a day (often 2) say every weekend. That won't even break 300 and if they fun dive another 200 a year they are still looking at well over 20 years at that pace to break 10K. If they count pool sessions even still would take a decade plus..and who counts pool sessions as logged dives (cue the list)"
 
That won't even break 300 and if they fun dive another 200 a year they are still looking at well over 20 years at that pace to break 10K.

Twenty years of diving isn't very long from my standpoint. I know divers that have been active longer than me and still travel to the tropics for month-long trips. No argument it is VERY rare, but doable so I'm not ready to leave an impression that a claim is, wrong, impossible, or misleading.
 
I've been diving steadily for 54 years and I haven't hit 5000 yet and never will. Just trying to do 93 dives every single year might be possible, but it wasn't the way I have lived my life. No regrets and I managed to get in a lot of great dives dives.

I figure I've done well without being a dive professional, never living by warm water diving, and not having the cash to go on exotic dive vacations.


Bob
 
I guess dive instructors at tropical resorts can rack up a lot of dives per day if they count every time they pop their heads out of the water to talk.

I'm pretty sure that everyone I know who claims 10,000 dives have worked for extended periods of time non-stop in tropical resorts.

I'm not sure this measure really means much when you get to that level of repetitive diving. We had a discussion about this some years ago that got heated because someone on the board claimed considerably more than 10,000 dives and someone asked him if that was 10,000 dives or 1 dive that he did 10,000 times. He didn't take the question well but I think the point was valid. He was logging all of his confined dives regardless of depth or time under water because they were done in the ocean. To me that's kind of like logging pool dives as "real" scuba dives.... I personally wouldn't do it but I guess some people do.

R..
 
If someone told me that they could get attacked by a shark in their "confined water" environment, I'd say it was an "open water" dive. .
 
... I'm not sure this measure really means much when you get to that level of repetitive diving.

We're on the same page:

Does it matter much once you get past the 1-3K range?...

I guess it is a mute point since anyone can just lie in their logbook. I've even heard that some divers actually exaggerate claims on the Internet... The Internet of all places. :shocked:

Unfortunately it takes a lot of reading in order to generate your "listen to this diver" or "maybe not so much" lists; but it ultimately becomes clear. Fortunately not much that is technically wrong or hazardous goes unchallenged for very long on Scubaboard.
 
If someone told me that they could get attacked by a shark in their "confined water" environment, I'd say it was an "open water" dive. .

Really? I'd say what the hell are you doing in there and not paying attention to that guy with the big teeth? :wink:

Edit:
The optimist says the glass is half full
The pessimist says the glass is half empty
The engineer says the glass is too big
The drunken diver says fill'er up​

Edit 2: Trace, it could be both. Ever been to a big aquarium?
 
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