Travel Patterns of American Dive Travelers ...

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

Hello guys:

I am just trying to figure out the travel patterns of American dive traveler. Can everyone tell me ever since you started diving:

1). How many of your dives were local dives (not requiring travel / over night stay somewhere else)

2). How many of your dives required you to travel within USA?

3) How many of your dives required you to travel outside USA?

Thanks -

 

[gcarter]

What?!?! Where is the love for your northern neighbours?

 

[Deep Down Diver]

Hello guys:

I am just trying to figure out the travel patterns of American dive traveler. Can everyone tell me ever since you started diving:

1). How many of your dives were local dives (not requiring travel / over night stay somewhere else)

2). How many of your dives required you to travel within USA?

3) How many of your dives required you to travel outside USA?

Thanks -

R percentages OK?

1) 99%

2) 1%

3) 0%

 

[chrpai]

I'm guessing.... historical....

1) 80% ( Local quarries, lakes, rig diving )
2) 10% ( Mid Atlantic wreck diving, Camping at remote quarries, Florida Keys, Miami )
3) 10% (Blackbeards, Jamaica, Cozumel)

Recently

1) 100% (Lake Travis)
2) 0%
3) 0%

Funny. The older I get and more money I make, the less I get to do...

 

[dmoore19]

1. 5%
2. 0
3. 95%

 

[lonebrave]

Out of 84 dives...
1. 69
2. 15 (inter-island travel w/in Hawaii)
3. 0

 

[cbm32]

1) 0
2) 12 (Kauai)
3)100 dives

 

[koozemani]

My "local" dives involve overnight trave(San Carlos, Mexico). I've tried the local dive lake, won't be doing that again.

Trips:
"local" 60%
In US. 20%
foreign 20%

Actual dives:
Close to even across the board. A weekend trip to San Carlos will be between 5-8 dives. A dive intensive or liveaboard vacation to Hawaii, the keys, or elsewhere are likely to equal anywhere from 2-5 weekend "local" trips(10-30 dives).

 

[Woodiver]

Local: 22
In US: 55
Foreign:469

 

[rhwestfall]

I consider myself "non-typical" (though some seem similar) that in 24 years, I've been to an international warm water location twice for week long dive vacations (San Salvador Bahamas & Bonaire). I've done weekend get-a-ways within my home state (St. Lawrence River) annually for a number of years, and to Canada (Tobermory) for the first time. Everything else is diving here at home in Lake Erie, the Niagara River, and quarries (just over the border in Canada). Cold water..... gotta love it!