Best describe your diving.

[AdivingBel]

Tidy bowl dive traveler. Recreational only. Take a few pictures & vids mostly used to let guests know they've overstayed their welcome and should go home. Just really enjoy the freedom underwater & the camaraderie above the water.

 

[RIHappyDiver]

You picked the top three and bottom three?
Which one is it, mostly warm or mostly cold?, please pick one.
Is it mostly vacation or mostly local?
Please pick one only.
I’m trying to get a harder line than ‘a little of each’.
Thnx

Ok, I do anywhere from 5-10 more dives per year on vacation, so I changed it to warm water, vacation, still rec and just looking. Hope that helps, Eric.

Erik

 

[toris1968]

I dive 4-5 hours most days in a gigantic pool with Astronauts

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I dive 4-5 hours most days in a gigantic pool with Astronauts

Hmm, unfortunately I didn’t have room for a “scientific” category.

 

[TMHeimer]

I'm not surprised at the low counts for either tech. or hunting. Tech. involves more risk (significantly more, IMO) and costs a lot more. Regarding hunting-- unless you're specifically on a spearfishing forum, the vast majority of divers are "take only pictures...."

One minor flaw in the poll may be the question of whether SoCal is warm or cold water. Having done some swimming there in summer I'd tend to call it warm. Probably not so in winter. There are a lot of divers in that area apparently. My guess is most call it cold.
I'd go as far as to say that my roots in the NYC area sees me calling it pretty warm in summer (I use only my shorty when there), but damn cold over winter, way more so apparently than LA.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

The surface water may feel warm, but I've seen thermoclines in SoCal drop twenty degrees. Where we live, it's usually in the low 60s to upper 40s.

 

[NothingClever]

Tech. involves more risk (significantly more, IMO) and costs a lot more.

I think 50m for 20+ minutes BT with a tin of deco gas is a Hollywood dive and should be considered AOW.

I’ll concur “technical” diving
is more expensive but regarding how risky it is, perhaps you should’ve hung out more with the drummer in the back of the bus.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I think 50m for 20+ minutes BT with a tin of deco gas is a Hollywood dive and should be considered AOW.

I’ll concur “technical” diving
is more expensive but regarding how risky it is, perhaps you should’ve hung out more with the drummer in the back of the bus.

In what universe is a 50 meter dive for 20 plus minutes with a sling bottle of “deco” gas considered an AOW recreational dive?

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I dive 4-5 hours most days in a gigantic pool with Astronauts

Coolest freaking job ever.

 

[MargaritaMike]

I'd go as far as to say that my roots in the NYC area sees me calling it pretty warm in summer (I use only my shorty when there)

Warm and shorty don't mix. If I have to wear any type of thermal protection it's cold water! I don't do cold water! If I go to the expense of going to a warm climate to do warm water rec diving mostly 130' or less where I can shoot some fish, photograph some fish, and just look at some fish on a vacation type trip I dang sure ain't wearing a wetsuit!

Cheers - M²