I am new to the forum, and was not familiar with the term dork diver until fairly recently although the term describes me pretty well.
Glad to have you. Just remember that the whole Dork Diver concept is to be nice to everyone, *especially* when they need to take a chill pill, as it were. Although it's perfectly acceptable to chuckle and point out when a fellow Dork Diver is losing his mellow, it's generally a bad idea to point it out to divers in general. If they aren't DDs, it's likely to make them even more un-mellow.
(Just figured I'd do my little DD public service announcement, since we're getting lots of new DDs... woo-hoo! :biggrin
(Oh, and if you *really* want to say something snide to a non-DD, just PM another DD and have a private chuckle about it. Sometimes you just *have* to.
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On to my question especially to those of you that are inland. How often do you dive just for the sake of getting wet? Are you perfectly happy going to that lake, pond, quarry, etc knowing that you probably won't see a thing just so you can breathe compressed air and blow bubbles. There are times I am perfectly content diving in a swimming pool just so I can be weightless and play in the water. What about the rest of you?
Ah, so you aren't just a tropical vacation dork. You sound like you have definite *Hazelnut* tendencies!
Hazelnut: From "hazel", the eye color -- a kind of blueish, brownish, greenish, greyish, *whatever* all-mixed-up color -- and "nut", i.e. a fanatic.
A Hazelnut is a diver who pretty much likes to dive *anywhere*. It doesn't really matter whether it's a pool, river, lake, quarry, pond, spring, beach, or tropical island, he enjoys diving it. Basically "diving for the sake of diving". Sure, tropical islands are nice, and there's a whole lot more color down there, but following snail trails in the silt at the bottom of a freshwater quarry can be just as fun a dive. Some of my favorite dives to date have been in nondescript quarries in the midwest. :biggrin:
(I really need to finish all the graphics and web design for Hazelnut Scuba, but I've been so preoccupied working up to DM that it's been back-burnered ever so slightly.)