I saw his caveat - but he was still suggesting that choosing a quarry dive over an ocean dive somehow means you are crazy. That is ridiculous and insulting!In all fairness, and please excuse me if I am repeating what someone else has already said, but I believe that, in context, people being mental for diving quarries was preceded by "Unless you have no chance of getting into the sea.." Not sure if that sufficiently softens the blow in any case.
All but 2 of my 50 dives to date have been in the Caribbean (Aruba, T&C, GC) as I'll take warm, clear water anyday, if available. However, I live in NJ so that is not the case.
Without an expensive trip, I can mainly only do ocean diving that is typically relatively deep wrecks with so-so viz (so I'm told) or quarry diving at Dutch Springs in PA. This summer I do plan on getting a few weekends of diving in at Dutch Springs - It's a great site with lots on interesting sunken objects. While different, it is still good diving and as good as, if not better than, a few ocean sites I've dived. In my opinion, it's good to mix things up for building experience.
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