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* SIGH * Try to focus...Yummmm cupcake dive!
My biggest worry of course is that I might be squandering opportunities away to give my all and everything at and to "work" by being distracted by distracting things, like "having a life", "family", "scuba"...What is it that you worry about?
OK, so I'm a tiny bit over 50, and one of my pools recently shocked me by saying I now qualify for a senior discount. Horrors... but I'll take it! It occurred to me that according to PADI I'm now supposed to plan my dives as if they were 10 feet deeper. I started wondering, how do you progress as a diver and at the same time scale back risk? Part of me feels like I could risk MORE now... less time left, gonna die anyway, you know. So old guys, how do you approach this?
Still schlepping twin 100s here in the PNW at 54 and back and knees are still hanging in there, but moving to sidemount really soon, but more due to shoulder mobility than gear lugging.
Considering I only started diving north of fifty you guys are starting to scare me a little ... I sure hope I can coax my diving a little more uphill first, ... before it really goes downhill...
Often the shallows are where the best life is at. I did two dives on Sunday at one of my all-time favorite shore dives ... a place called Sekiu, on the westernmost part of Washington State. First dive maxed at 26 feet, second was at 34. Besides having amazing stuff to look at, the shallower dives meant longer profiles ... 87 and 72 minutes, respectively. We found 11 different species of nudibranchs on those two dives ... but this was my favorite subject, found in six feet of water ...Great advice! Luckily, just as some dream of the deep, I dream of the shallows: I love the photosythetic zone where all the colors show! I think it would be cool to do it in some offbeat places...
At least that particular volcano is considered to be "dormant." Oh wait, so was Mount St. Helens. But I suppose the chances of it erupting again within my lifetime are quite small.
Yep, I met a 78 year old and a 70 something year old married couple who were giant striding off the back of the dive boat in the St Lawrence River wearing drysuits and doubles. They weightlifted and did cardio exercise. After diving with them I have a new goal: be doing the same thing at their age.
This is magical. Is it some kind of octopus? May I share it on my facebook page (giving you credit, of course)?Often the shallows are where the best life is at. I did two dives on Sunday at one of my all-time favorite shore dives ... a place called Sekiu, on the westernmost part of Washington State. First dive maxed at 26 feet, second was at 34. Besides having amazing stuff to look at, the shallower dives meant longer profiles ... 87 and 72 minutes, respectively. We found 11 different species of nudibranchs on those two dives ... but this was my favorite subject, found in six feet of water ...
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... Bob (Grateful Diver)