So what you are saying, in essence, is that if a dive does ot have the features that YOU look for in a dive, then it should not count as a dive. Is that right?
No. You misunderstand, a little aggressively too.
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So what you are saying, in essence, is that if a dive does ot have the features that YOU look for in a dive, then it should not count as a dive. Is that right?
...not some ocean only snob.
No. You misunderstand, a little aggressively too.
I bought a drysuit within a year of OW certification. I wanted to dive in cold quarry waters year round, and it certainly served its purpose. Over time, as I ventured into tec training and technical diving, I found that I was diving dry 90%+ of the time. My general practice - if the water temp was below 73 degrees, I went dry. The only wet diving I did was teaching OW, or so it seemed. One vivid drysuit diving memory - diving the Oriskany (bottom temp of 64 degrees), over the 4th of July weekend, 2 years in a row. And, sweltering on the surface as I suited up, pouring sweat into my 'dry' suit.
Having never dived in a quarry, the question is sincere in its ignorance. I've heard that they are often used for certification training / testing. I had not pictured them as actual dive destinations, in lieu of a better word, like oceans, lakes, caves, etc. They seem more like diving in the deep end of a pool to me. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I just wondered if this was the kind of thing one would log.
Nice post. I still don't quite get it though. A challenge is not really what I associate with the joy of diving. Diving in dark, cold, bad visibility, etc. surely has some benefits as a training exercise, but I am missing the point if it is otherwise. All that challenge for what? My personal enjoyment of diving centers around seeing things; life, topography, sunken things. I really do not see the point of diving in hard or lousy conditions with nothing to see. What am I missing?
Rubbish to you but clearly not everyone. Dives in the local quarries - cold, maybe dark, questionable viz - are good for those of us who want to dive the Great Lakes.
I'm diving virtually every weekend, 2-4 dives. $20 entry fee to quarry plus gas and air fills. That's a bargain over an ocean trip I might be able to do once a year. I have Lake Michigan in my backyard and get a 2 tank dive for $110 and a little more than an hour's drive. Lake Huron is 6-8 hours. I'll be diving there in late July. I'm a native Great Lakes gal, not some ocean only snob.
I am getting a clearer picture of why people dive quarries. Still does not seem like the kind of dive that I would log personally.