How old are you and how long have you been scuba diving?
 

Curious to see how old everyone is and how long you have been diving?

I am 37 and I have been diving for 25 years.

28, NAUI cert in 1995

14, 2 years PADI!

21, diving since i was 13. Snorkelling since i can remember.

Been diving for 24 years, and I'm not telling you how old I am :D

Ditto's Bill.... me either....diving for 21 years here myself....you beat me a bit old timer!!! ;)

diving since 83 while I was in eleventh grade of high school.seeing the ocean is what got me started in this hobby,so...Ive been in this hobby just as long as ive been taking the plung;)

I am 30, and got certified for my 30th birthday.
(have wanted to for years)

Congrats man!!!! Happy diving!!!

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11111299#post11111299 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ron Leversee [/i]
[B]Congrats man!!!! Happy diving!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

Thanks!
It took a little while to talk my wife into it, but in the end she enjoys diving as much as I do. We did our open water dives at [url=http://www.seabase.net/]SeaBase[/url] and my birthday dive trip was to Cozumel.

i got mine at age 13 and i dont have to get it renewed. i am now 16 so iv been diving for 3 years. i have done about 30 dives only in freshwater but i am going to key wast for thanksgiving and we are going to scuba dive there.

I am 45 yrs old and have been diving for 19 yrs.

i was certified under nasds in 74. i dont even think they exist anymore.

I think i was 14 started with snuba i stop about 5 years ago and i'm 52 years old and the irony is in a work dive manufacturing company and i stop doing it isn't that crazy

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11139568#post11139568 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mountaindew [/i]
[B]i was certified under nasds in 74. i dont even think they exist anymore. [/B][/QUOTE]

[quote]As of May 1, 2003, the website for NASDS has been discontinued. Since SSI and NASDS merged in 1999, the need for the NASDS website has diminished, as all of the programs of SSI and NASDS have been fully merged into one company.[/quote]

[url]http://www.ssiusa.com/history.htm[/url]

how about posting some pictures of reefs that you have dove at??

46, 1 year.

Certified PADI in 1981. Currently I have over 300 dives logged. I was 17 when I got my cert...you do the math :).

34-two months padi :)

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11149516#post11149516 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jvdb [/i]
[B][url]http://www.ssiusa.com/history.htm[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
Hey thanks for info! I have been out of the loop for a while and wondered what happend them

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11170712#post11170712 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mountaindew [/i]
[B]Hey thanks for info! I have been out of the loop for a while and wondered what happend them [/B][/QUOTE]

NP.
I did a lot of research before certifying SSI. Ultimately I think the teacher matters more than the program, but I couldn't be happier than I am with our SSI experience.

I am 31 and was certified when I was 10 yrs. I grew in Gitmo Bay, Cuba. Diving was everything there!

Some of the places i have dived recently:

Heron Island:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Misc%20Photos/RC-02.jpg[/IMG]

Wheeler Reef:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Wheeler%20Reef%20Trip%202006/IMG_0394.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Wheeler%20Reef%20Trip%202006/IMG_0256.jpg[/IMG]

Magnetic Island:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Magnetic%20Island%202007/RC-04.jpg[/IMG]

Orpheus Island:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Orpheus%20Island%202007/IMG_0017.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Orpheus%20Island%202007/IMG_0014.jpg[/IMG]

Davis Reef:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Reef%20Liveaboard%20Trip/ReefLiveaboardTrip2007-115.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Reef%20Liveaboard%20Trip/ReefLiveaboardTrip2007-400.jpg[/IMG]


S.S. Yongala:
[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Miscellaneous%20UW%20Photos/CoralTroutatacleaningstationonSSYon.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/edr42/Miscellaneous%20UW%20Photos/CoralTroutandSixbandAngelfishatSSYo.jpg[/IMG]

I turned tropical in 2005 when i went to the GBR to study marine biology, hence all the reefs.
I still love diving and snorkelling in temperate waters though, it's how i grew up.
Of my 21 years, i have spent 8 years diving and ~15 snorkelling so far, with many, many more to come!

Incidentally i'm Padi certified.

31, PADI certified in 07. So far I've only been on one diving trip, to Okinawa.

26, been diving since I was 18. Dive for a local Search and recovery team.