Question How old are you and how long certified? Poll- please take part!

[JMBL]

51, first certified in April 1990, 1100+ logged dives, CCR diver since right after the beginning of the damned pandemi. Wish to dive until I'm over 80 like a buddy of mine.

 

[Shaun_Mc]

42 and 120ish dives certified in 2014 Just started diving in my new home that is walking distance to the water so that number should go up very quickly now.

 

[Scott G. Bonser]

What is this "retire" word you speak of?

I figure I'm working until the bitter end. In fact, I predict the messy end with the EMT service pumping on my chest, and someone saying "Think you could get him to sign this?". I secretly hope it is an aneurism, and it is messy for them to clean up in my office....

If I have to stick it out that long, someone is going to have to pay the price for it....

My best regards to you, my vintage SCUBA peer. I am looking for a Kraken myself. Right now I am setting up a Waterlung Dual-Air by Sportsways as a complete Open Water regulator setup. This regulator made in 1961, 1962 is remarkable with a HP gauge port and three LP ports for octo, power inflator and an additional ‘tool’. A regulator ahead of its time. …also breathes like a ‘dream’. I am also a collector as well as a diver. Get ‘Wet’ often. Retirement just means more unfettered time for most. I am happy my employer ( NC DOT ) is very flexible with time off once you have been working with them over 10 years. BTW, I have 2 Waterlung D-A regs. One is all original with little use in its lifetime. As for going ‘out-with-a-bang’….it has its merits.
Sincerely
giantfroginthepool
Scott G. Bonser

 

[Ontwreckdiver]

62 and have been certified since 1999

 

[Beau Holden]

63, certified 2003, no idea on number of dives, stopped logging sometime around 2005 or 06

 

[DogDiver]

72 years old. Started diving in 1966. Didn’t get certified via YMCA until 1972. Still doing mixed gas staged decompression cave dives. Dove Ginnie Springs cave today.

 

[shanks4300]

52, September of 2022, 10 dives in.

 

[DiveClimbRide]

21 years old. Certified beginning of 2020 and about 600 dives

 

[rongoodman]

I secretly hope it is an aneurism, and it is messy for them to clean up in my office....

Do you think they'll be cracking your chest on the office floor?

 

[lexvil]

This seems redundant but…

68, certified in 1971 at 16 NASDS, retired in 2010.

dive as often as the conditions allow, this has been a bad year so far, it over 3 hours to get to Monterey for me to dive but go pretty much weekly.

diving coldish water is hard, driving is hard but if you let that get to you you’ll stop diving because it’s easier to not dive, not diving get easier and easier at,east it seems so judging by how many non diving divers I know.