50+ year old divers

[Colorado Fred]

I made both dive tours, St. Lucia and Dominica, through the cruise ship. St. Lucia was accepted - Dominica was not, so I assume it is the dive shop's rejection based only on age.
By the way, I'm 69. My last dives were off Aruba last April.
I thought I was the oldest diver on a boat off Grand Cayman several years ago, but one lady was 74 and was on the boat with her older sister. I didn't ask her age. On a Cayman live-aboard, one gentleman was also 74.
Lagonia, thanks for the tip; I will e-mail Blue Water to set it up. My dives in the Bay Islands were with Anthony's Key on Roatan.

 

[coralcruiser]

Somewhere in the middle between 50 and 60
Got my NASDS advanced in 1989
No favorite LDS... I give me business to several near and far
I'm strickly a warm water diver....
Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Fiji Bequa and Taveuni, Palau and Yap
Banda Sea - Lucipera Islands Indonesia, Cook Islands, Turks and Caicos - Provo, Salt Cay, Grand Turk, Roatan, Utila, Belize, St. Croix, Bonaire and of course Key West just to name a few...

 

[rvers2003]

52,retired, full time RV'er
Patrick AFB, FL. (Cocoa Beach)
PADI Divemaster
While on the east coast I dive with Jupiter Dive Center

 

[shawrg]

59+ On a recent dive trip it occured to me that I'm old and ancient as I noticed my regulator was older than my divebuddy
alabama
AOW
caribbean is convenient, affordable & usually warm
LDS is divesport- favorite is caribe inn bonaire

I'm usually grumpless

 

[dive1]

54
U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas
Caribbean
My shop, Homers Scuba and Snorkel Tours Homers scuba and snorkel tours
my next favorite shop is Aqua Action
Instructor

 

[Rick Murchison]

Age 61... started in 1972 with no qualifications, no wetsuit, no gauges or own gear didnt get a BCD (horse collar) until 1977. Bought first pressure gauge in 1975.

Ahhh, now that brings up a whole new subject we can keep this thread alive with... initial gear setup... what we dive now
Celebrated my 61st with a cave dive at Jackson Blue - double E7-120's & drysuit; BP & wing; 24 watt HID, etc...
I started with borrowed stuff; bought my first set of gear in '71:
Conshelf XII (which I still have and use)
Voit mask & fins - long since disintegrated
USD steel '72 w/ hardpack/harness (which is still passing hydro and is still my favorite single tank)
K valve ("J valves are for wimps; real men just come up when it gets too hard to breathe")
No weights ("weights are for girls & fat guys & wimps with wetsuits")
No wetsuit ("wetsuits are for wimps")
No guages ("who needs guages? we know how deep it is")
No BC ("What's a BC?")
No octopus ("octopus? what's that?")
No log book ("Logbook? yeah, I log my flights... you log dives???")
-- I didn't upgrade that rig until the Lovely Young Kat started in '90, when she came home from her first pool session talking about "BC" & "SPG" & "logbook" and other terms foreign to my diving... she said I would get a pressure guage if I was gonna dive with her!
Thus began the accumulation of enough scuba gear to buy a house!
Recently I dove that original rig in Vortex Springs (68°F) just for grins & giggles... lasted 19 minutes & decided my drysuit was a good alternative
I've also found that I now need weights in salt water, even without a wetsuit... too fat, I reckon.
Rick

 

[islandwheels]

54 yrs, certified open water 1982, I've logged a few dives, but don't log them anymore, dive along treasure coast of florida take boat out either Sebestian or Ft Pierce inlet and dive, took boat over to Abacos a couple times last summer and could get spoiled diving there easily. LDS for us is Hatt's, although big ticket items are Scubatoys or Leisure Pro.

 

[Puffer Fish]

Ahhh, now that brings up a whole new subject we can keep this thread alive with... initial gear setup... what we dive now
Celebrated my 61st with a cave dive at Jackson Blue - double E7-120's & drysuit; BP & wing; 24 watt HID, etc...
I started with borrowed stuff; bought my first set of gear in '71:
Conshelf XII (which I still have and use)
Voit mask & fins - long since disintegrated
USD steel '72 w/ hardpack/harness (which is still passing hydro and is still my favorite single tank)
K valve ("J valves are for wimps; real men just come up when it gets too hard to breathe")
No weights ("weights are for girls & fat guys & wimps with wetsuits")
No wetsuit ("wetsuits are for wimps")
No guages ("who needs guages? we know how deep it is")
No BC ("What's a BC?")
No octopus ("octopus? what's that?")
No log book ("Logbook? yeah, I log my flights... you log dives???")
-- I didn't upgrade that rig until the Lovely Young Kat started in '90, when she came home from her first pool session talking about "BC" & "SPG" & "logbook" and other terms foreign to my diving... she said I would get a pressure guage if I was gonna dive with her!
Thus began the accumulation of enough scuba gear to buy a house!
Recently I dove that original rig in Vortex Springs (68Ž°F) just for grins & giggles... lasted 19 minutes & decided my drysuit was a good alternative
I've also found that I now need weights in salt water, even without a wetsuit... too fat, I reckon.
Rick

Mine was 1967... conshelf.. but not sure what version.. US diver aluminum tank...j valve... snorkle vest...off Destin florida (before the break water was installed....no wetsuit.. A tube depth gauge...no pressure gauge... and the biggest dive knife I could find.. a Dacor...

 

[PePaw]

As we kick off a new year, would it be a good idea to have folks check back in to let us know they're alive ?

 

[Doc Intrepid]

Did they give a reason?...

That would be "Liability"...