The problem with SCUBA diving

[randytay]

Though I started not long ago but I have discovered a major problem with SCUBA diving. When I started, I was thrown all sorts of ideas about how exciting SCUBA diving is, how fun it is etc etc.

Well, I have now come to a point that all those does not matter. Never mind if I have no new place to discover or that the same spot has been dived dozens of time, i JUST want to get in the water. Its no longer "fun" for me but more like a need. I NEED to get in the water at least once a week or I suffer from some kind of withdrawal, or I will get really antsy throughout the week.

Any one else has the same issues?

 

[DiveNav]

welcome to the club!

I was so crazy about scuba that I ended up making my own videogame

 

[359]

Nah... I'm on a swim team. That satisfies my need to get in the water. Except not. At all. Diving is like an addiction. Albeit *my* addiction is still fun, exciting and legal. However, if it was taken out of context, the sudden and rapid draining of my funds would seem a mite suspicious (like a drug addiction), but fortunately I get equipment and experience, not pills. Since I can only manage a dive every month or so, swimming tides me over, but it is like popping sugar pills instead of the real thing- good enough to help me concentrate during daily life, but not good enough to erase the addiction. Its true what they say- once a diver, always a diver (They do say that, right?).
Besides, I could stop anytime I want to, same as with breathing. I just wouldn't be able to maintain it for long.

 

[randytay]

Nah... I'm on a swim team. That satisfies my need to get in the water. Except not. At all. Diving is like an addiction. Albeit *my* addiction is still fun, exciting and legal. However, if it was taken out of context, the sudden and rapid draining of my funds would seem a mite suspicious (like a drug addiction), but fortunately I get equipment and experience, not pills. Since I can only manage a dive every month or so, swimming tides me over, but it is like popping sugar pills instead of the real thing- good enough to help me concentrate during daily life, but not good enough to erase the addiction. Its true what they say- once a diver, always a diver (They do say that, right?).
Besides, I could stop anytime I want to, same as with breathing. I just wouldn't be able to maintain it for long.

Hah! I swim every alternate days in the gym... its just not the same. Its not even sugar-pills for me... can't concentrate... has... to... dive.... aaarrgghhh!

 

[scoobydrew]

Randytay - if the addiction carries on that strong then you may want to think about going pro at least spending a season as a divemaster somewhere nice

 

[MichiganScott]

Um you're really addicted when you start deciding the new piece of gear is more important than say a bill.... Done that been there, I mean you can pay the bill next check...right?

 

[tstormdiver]

I understand your addiction, but to me it is still fun at 500 dives, with more than 300 in the same quarry. I can always find new areas to explore or skills that need brushing up on to keep me occupied & happy. As long as I am learning something (which I do on every dive I make) it is still fun to me.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Addiction? Nah ... I can quit anytime I want ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[dkktsunami]

Welcome to the addiction ............it might be the weightlessness that attracts me, not sure, but I will, if necessary to get my water fix, go to a local lake with very low vis, swim with my compass, or just hang there motionless. I tell myself I'm doing this for the exercise but that certainly isn't the case. I just need to do this to get my mind "right".

 

[ScubaSam]

Yes, it's still fun and still an addiction. When it stops being so I will quit.