Your Goals in Diving

[lundysd]

I'm interested in the long-term diving goals of everyone. What drives you to go diving over and over, even at the same sites/bad conditions/etc???

For example, my goals are as follows:

I want to take a dive picture that wins an award and inspires someone to take up diving

I want to be regarded as a highly competent and safe diver


Everyone chime in

 

[timle]

My goal is simply to have fun and enjoy life. That being said I don't find much enjoyment lying on a beach all day. I find enjoyment in the challenges of diving - planning a dive, learning new skills and honing old ones, etc.

Oh and there is seeing the largest part of the earth and creatures most people see only on TV.

 

[abjonesiii]

Advanced Tech diver.... on to the caves!

 

[creamofwheat]

Well, my long term goals involve technical diving. I can't wait for decompression and advanced nitrox training. Advanced wreck training. And also I'd love to be full cave certified. Eventually. But I am young and have plenty of time to go about these things.

Short term goals are to become the safest, best diver I can be while having tons of fun and watching little sea creatures that not many other people see (except on TV and in movies ).

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Be a competent diver while having fun Even if that includes Tech classes in the future.

Keep fresh fish in the freezer.

Bring that photo home to show all my non-diving friends what their missing(same goes with dive friends that weren't present during the dive).

Sometimes, I just want to sight-see and blow bubbles.

Discover new sights that nobody has dived.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

I would like to keep mine and my buddies (Others too) Descends and Assents equal in number....

 

[GottaDive]

My long-term diving goal is to die of old age. (many, many years from now!)
Right now, I'm working toward Divemaster.

Steve

 

[Diver Dennis]

Always come back alive.

 

[seadoggirl]

I take pictures of the people I know or don't and email them. It gives everyone something to brag about on Monday morning. I love new divers. My goal is to help everyone remember a great dive experience. Plus every dive is so different that diving the same sites multiple times is different each time. Good question! It made me think.

 

[Daylonious]

Hmmm:

Dive with Chatterton and have him say "that kid's not bad"...

Take a good U/W picture and have it published in some magazine

Dive the Doria

Become a technical instructor

Eventually buy / train to use a rebreather

Spend the rest of my life travelling the world diving great places..

I figure that's enough for now... ;-)

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