110 dives. 46 were local dives in Monterey, 27 from a trip to Kona in March, and the remaining 37 from a trip to Puerto Galera in July. All dives were recreational hobby dives.
I'd only been certified for 3 months when 2019 started, so my nebulous goal was to just dive as much as I could. Given that I don't have a car and basically had to hitch rides for all my local dives, I'm fairly happy with how much diving I got done this year. I do wish that I'd been able to fit in a few more dives in the last quarter of the year, but my drysuit was stuck in the Scubatude repair queue for 7 weeks, which made me lean towards sleeping in instead of diving in a rental suit for some of the weekends when conditions were marginal. I also won't be diving for the last few weeks of the year because I'm visiting my non-diving family members near Toronto.
A highlight for me was that I got into underwater photography and managed to get good enough to take shots I wouldn't mind blowing up and hanging on my wall. I guess it was a bit of a lowlight for my wallet though, because I could probably buy another two or three sets of all my other dive gear for the price of my camera rig...
Goals for 2020:
- Upgrade my Fundies provisional to a full rec pass
- Get trained and switch over to a set of doubles for local diving
- Focus a little more on quality over quantity of dives, with a target of 80ish for the year. To that end, I've booked a trip to Cozumel in April, and will likely do another trip (destination TBD) sometime later in the year as well.