Pro-5000 Diver How Many On Board? When Awarded?

[MikeFerrara]

The same is true in the Caribbean.

The same is probably true anyplace someone would be diving all day every day. Living where I do and doing the type of diving I do, I probably won't ever hit 5000 dives. Of course, it isn't one of my goals and I wouldn't know it if I did hit 5000 because I quit counting a long time ago. I still use a log but I don't use it for counting.

 

[SterlingDiver]

........I would of thought the original post's intent would have been interesting subject. Especially, for us that vicariously live through you out in dive land. I am landlocked in a desert and wish I could possibably have the opportunity to dive that much.

As far as the skill questions or comments, I think the law of attrition would eliminate any poor divers before 5000 dives.

My .02

Dave

BTW, congratulations Sam Miller, III & IV.

 

[diver 85]

The same is true in the Caribbean.

yep, most (young & active) DM's or instructors are there in no more than 6 years, most that is........3 a day X 340 days X 5 years & Bingeaux, give me the card........

 

[captain]

Give'm hell Sam.

 

[DeepSeaDan]

...many commercial saturation divers who have alot of "dive time" . Some of them have been rotating in & out of the pot, month on the beach / month in the can, for the better part of twenty years.

Now that, my friends, is some serious exposure to elevated p.p.'s.

DSD

 

[reel-wild]

it sounds like the number of dives gives you bragging rights that you call knowledge what a laugh for i guess my dives are in vane since i am ssi trained is this what this sight is about im in the wrong place

 

[vladimir]

It sounds like the number of dives you have gives you bragging rights that you call "knowledge". What a laugh! I guess my dives are in vain since I am SSI trained. Is this what this site is about? Then I'm in the wrong place.

Well said.

 

[Rick Inman]

it sounds like the number of dives gives you bragging rights that you call knowledge what a laugh for i guess my dives are in vane since i am ssi trained is this what this sight is about im in the wrong place

Around here, it's the number of posts...ah.... or the post number... or something...

Never mind.

 

[Blackwood]

Actually quite a few do. I can walk out my shop and down the street - quite a few shops on the road here and talk to two or three DM's/Instructors at each shop that meet or exceed 5000 dives. In my travels throughout Asia many instructors and guides surpass that mark in a short amount of time- not counting the professional fisherman here in Japan.

Quite a few do, sure. But, percentage wise, VERY few do. Probably less than a percent of all divers will ever hit a thousand, let alone five.

 

[daniel f aleman]

Received my Platinum Pro 5000 in 2001.