Clickable Poll on Cave Divers' Age

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10-20-2014 10:20 AM
shellmoundal

Cave divers age

I am taking a survey of the average age of a full cave diver.
CATAGORY OF AGE
18 TO 29
30 TO 40
41 TO 50
51 TO 60
61 TO 70
70 OR ABOVE

EDIT We have made this a regular poll, with slightly different age ranges.
10-20-2014 10:24 AM
shellmoundal

Please let me know what category you fall into.
10-20-2014 11:17 AM
Danseur

30-40
10-20-2014 11:24 AM
diveconjeff

51-60

Curious, why not make this a poll...
10-20-2014 11:38 AM
FW

I am in both of the overlapping categories :roll:
10-20-2014 11:39 AM
roguediver

41-50
10-20-2014 12:05 PM
CGOUGHN

30-40
10-20-2014 12:11 PM
deepdiver4

30-40
10-20-2014 12:47 PM
Garth

30-40

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10-20-2014 12:50 PM
ScottW

51-60

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10-20-2014 12:51 PM
tursiops

Quote:

Originally Posted by diveconjeff

Curious, why not make this a poll...

Exactly.
10-20-2014 01:08 PM
sandy

51 to 60
10-20-2014 01:15 PM
MORGAN

51-60

Mike
10-20-2014 01:19 PM
Mark Vlahos

Certification age 45.

Now age 54
10-20-2014 01:23 PM
tbone1004

18-29
Certified at 22
10-20-2014 01:47 PM
mike2854

30-40
Certified at 29
10-20-2014 02:10 PM
Korvette

41-50
10-20-2014 02:16 PM
DarkCoffee

51-60
10-20-2014 02:58 PM
oms121

Cave certified 39
Now 51 - 60
10-20-2014 04:45 PM
patpicos

30-40

Cave cert 28
10-20-2014 04:45 PM
jeandiver

51-60 Certified
And still 51-60 Age

Jeano
10-20-2014 05:07 PM
Squirrel Girl

Clickable Poll on Cave Divers' Age

Trying to get a poll where you click on your answers.
10-20-2014 05:21 PM
knabuecave

44 years young
10-20-2014 06:37 PM
DaleHawerchuck

18-29 yo
10-20-2014 06:40 PM
FW

Merged the other age thread with this one.
10-21-2014 06:12 AM
Kelly Jessop

Looking at the poll (which known demographics echos) looks like the CDS and NACD need to merge their journal with AARP. On serious note would verify the category of accident analysis for medical related problems.
10-21-2014 07:15 AM
Squirrel Girl

How much of this demographic is a combo between the age of cave divers and the age of cave divers who spend a lot of time on the internet?
10-21-2014 07:46 AM
SlowDiver

Age 69, while at REACT dive partner is 72. Started cave diving 1965.

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10-21-2014 08:48 AM
shellmoundal

Thanks Forrest. I did not know how to set it up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FW

Merged the other age thread with this one.
10-21-2014 09:24 AM
MichaelAngelo

Certified at 35
Now 51 - 59
10-21-2014 01:04 PM
OFG-1

Quote:

Originally Posted by FW

I am in both of the overlapping categories :roll:

Soooo... somewhere between the tarantian and holocene, eh?
10-21-2014 01:59 PM
DeadHeadDiver

Please be specific. Physical or Mental age?
10-21-2014 03:36 PM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeadHeadDiver

Please be specific. Physical or Mental age?

If it was "mental age" we would all be in the first age group :rollguy
10-21-2014 06:41 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squirrel Girl

How much of this demographic is a combo between the age of cave divers and the age of cave divers who spend a lot of time on the internet?

Yes we're too old to go out parting every night
10-21-2014 06:43 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by FW

I am in both of the overlapping categories :roll:

As I've said before, your one age, the painting of you in the attic well that's another.
10-21-2014 07:09 PM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelAngelo

As I've said before, your one age, the painting of you in the attic well that's another.

That isn't me, it is Dorian :-D
10-21-2014 07:54 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by FW

That isn't me, it is Dorian :-D

So you say.
10-21-2014 08:18 PM
Sludge

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelAngelo

Yes we're too old to go out parting every night

Speak for yourself. I party exactly as much as I did when I was twenty.

Okay, zero equals zero, but it's the principle of it.
10-22-2014 03:19 PM
Jax

:rollguy
10-22-2014 08:32 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slüdge

Speak for yourself. I party exactly as much as I did when I was twenty.

Okay, zero equals zero, but it's the principle of it.

Ahhh that explains it.
10-24-2014 12:35 PM
CCRMichael

Currently 26, Certified Full Cave at 15.
10-24-2014 01:06 PM
rjohns

Turned 70 this month.
10-24-2014 06:15 PM
tursiops

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjohns

Turned 70 this month.

It looks like you, Forrest and I are in a class by ourselves....
10-24-2014 08:09 PM
AB8CD

51-60

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10-29-2014 10:02 PM
Mr Grey

<30
11-05-2014 08:59 PM
gasdiver

Certified full cave at 28, now 54.
11-05-2014 09:45 PM
next gen

Turned 19 two months ago.
11-05-2014 11:56 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by next gen

Turned 19 two months ago.

Holy cow so did my bunion.
11-14-2014 06:54 PM
edl

Turned 66 eight days ago passed my full cave yesterday
11-15-2014 05:27 AM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by edl

Turned 66 eight days ago passed my full cave yesterday

Congratulations young man :-)
11-15-2014 08:31 PM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by edl

Turned 66 eight days ago passed my full cave yesterday

congrates now that is something good to hear. Gives hope to us kids
11-15-2014 10:33 PM
caveflyer

Whould be interesting to run this poll again in 5 - 10 years and compare to this years result.
11-16-2014 12:50 AM
MichaelAngelo

Quote:

Originally Posted by caveflyer

Whould be interesting to run this poll again in 5 - 10 years and compare to this years result.

It would be interesting is this poll yearly. It may show an age with a high drop out.
11-16-2014 07:16 AM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by caveflyer

Whould be interesting to run this poll again in 5 - 10 years and compare to this years result.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelAngelo

It would be interesting is this poll yearly. It may show an age with a high drop out.

Feel free to start a new poll. However I don't think you will learn much. There are always new cave divers every year, and also dropouts each year. The other problem is some people that responded to this poll may not bother next year, or in 10 years. For example, divers near the top of their age group will end up in the next group in a year or so. That same age group will pick up new cavedivers, as well as divers that were at the top of the lower age group.
11-16-2014 10:52 AM
caveflyer

An optimistic assumption probably but I'm betting that this graph would look a lot more "bell curvey" in five years as a lot of the 50-59 age group moves to the 60-69 age group yet keeps diving...... hopefully.
11-16-2014 11:24 AM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by caveflyer

An optimistic assumption probably but I'm betting that this graph would look a lot more "bell curvey" in five years as a lot of the 50-59 age group moves to the 60-69 age group yet keeps diving...... hopefully.

The 70-79 moving to 80+ will for sure :-)
11-17-2014 10:40 PM
shellmoundal

I'll be with you forrest.
11-19-2014 04:50 AM
Gdiver

dive certified 14,cave and tech.@ 41 am 50 now.
11-20-2014 12:04 PM
tursiops

Quote:

Originally Posted by shellmoundal

I'll be with you forrest.

I'll get there first....
11-20-2014 10:35 PM
speleocrone

Just turning 59. So almost in that next bracket. Will that mean another life's goal achieved?:?

I'm chasing you Forrest, will I catch up though?
11-21-2014 04:30 AM
FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by speleocrone

Just turning 59. So almost in that next bracket. Will that mean another life's goal achieved?:?

I'm chasing you Forrest, will I catch up though?

Only if I stop :-D
11-21-2014 09:43 PM
speleocrone

Don't do that! You are my beacon for my old(er) age lifestyle:smt045
11-22-2014 06:34 AM
TraceMalin

40 - 49 (47)
11-26-2014 08:29 PM
agoins

<30 at 24
11-29-2014 04:15 PM
divingabe

60 to 69
11-30-2014 12:46 AM
Sh0use

Basic Cave- 23 years of age.
12-12-2014 08:05 AM
coldwaterjake

51-60
12-19-2014 10:35 PM
pxh100

51-60 and moving up a group soon

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12-24-2014 07:58 AM
MORGAN

56 for a couple more months, but it ain't the years; it's the mileage.
12-28-2014 11:44 PM
LCF

I wonder if the age groups would sort into people who live in Florida, and those who don't. I would suspect the younger cohort lives in the area, whereas the older divers would include most of the out-of-towners. You have to have reached a certain income level to be able to take repeated trips to cave country, and that generally goes along with a certain degree of age.
12-29-2014 05:15 AM
r4e

Quote:

Originally Posted by LCF

You have to have reached a certain income level to be able to take repeated trips to cave country, and that generally goes along with a certain degree of age.

That's what I was thinking, i.e. why is the 50-59 category so well represented? Could it be that:
1) By that age the kids have left home (DINK)
2) By that age your wife (or husband) is more than willing to let you spend some time on your own?
3) By that age you feel there is less to lose if any mishaps occur?
4) This is the last chance to see/show how brave you are?
5) You have got bored of all the female divers at open water aquarium-type dive sites?
6) By that age you realize there is more to life than what work and marriage offers?
12-31-2014 08:27 AM
gschaut

Quote:

Originally Posted by r4e

That's what I was thinking, i.e. why is the 50-59 category so well represented? Could it be that:
1) By that age the kids have left home (DINK)
2) By that age your wife (or husband) is more than willing to let you spend some time on your own?
3) By that age you feel there is less to lose if any mishaps occur?
4) This is the last chance to see/show how brave you are?
5) You have got bored of all the female divers at open water aquarium-type dive sites?
6) By that age you realize there is more to life than what work and marriage offers?

7) You finally have the money/free time to do something you have dreamed of doing all your life (bucket list) and want to get it done before your kids/grandkids ship you off to the nursing home to eat cream-of-wheat for the rest of your life.
01-02-2015 05:10 PM
BecKave

Cavern -14
Intro - 16
Full - 18
Now i'm in the 30-40 lol ouch
01-02-2015 11:12 PM
ScubaGypsy

I'm in my mid 50's and diving is my primary physical fitness program at > 100+ dives/yr. However polls like this cause me concern because I'd like to continue to experience time underwater till my final days which will hopefully be mid 80s plus! I truly wish we had more 60+yr old participants!
01-03-2015 07:47 AM
Ash

<30

Cavern at 25, guess I don't technically belong in the "Cave Diver Forum"...don't shun me! :smt081
01-19-2015 08:49 AM
Anders Knudsen

I did Full Cave at 18 - never wanted to be a cave diver, just wanted the techniques so i could progress with my wreck diving.
I am now 26 looking back the past 10 trips I have done have been cave trips and I even moved to Mexico for 7 months to be able to dive caves every day...... I guess my wreck diving plan did not work out as it was supposed to...
01-28-2015 04:30 PM
Aotus

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScubaGypsy

I'm in my mid 50's and diving is my primary physical fitness program at > 100+ dives/yr. However polls like this cause me concern because I'd like to continue to experience time underwater till my final days which will hopefully be mid 80s plus! I truly wish we had more 60+yr old participants!

I suspect the range is more the outcome of when the sport caught on, the age at which a person has the money the start, and the tendency for people to get bored/distracted and move on. I doubt it's the result of everyone dying off...
02-08-2015 08:51 AM
fishinmaniac

25 here, full cave. Can't say that I ever see many cave divers my age at sites.
06-12-2015 09:51 AM
OutOfTest

23 here. It's not really a normal qualification I have but its equivalent to full cave.

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06-12-2015 11:27 AM
Sludge

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aotus

I doubt it's the result of everyone dying off...

You know, I've been doing this for almost twenty years and I have had exactly two friends who died while cave diving. Both were deemed medical issues.
06-17-2015 04:04 AM
Ann

Quote:

Originally Posted by gschaut

7) You finally have the money/free time to do something you have dreamed of doing all your life (bucket list) and want to get it done before your kids/grandkids ship you off to the nursing home to eat cream-of-wheat for the rest of your life.

Or did they start at 25 and still diving caves?
06-19-2015 07:42 PM
JE

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ash

<30

Cavern at 25, guess I don't technically belong in the "Cave Diver Forum"...don't shun me! :smt081

Never say you don't belong Ash ! Cavern-cave or just free diving....your interest & taking part in learning of this activity more than anything serves to let you take part on this forum. TJ & Russel amongst several others will vouch for this, as will I ! Pursue your dreams & let those who belittle you for doing so, get fat & ugly ! :) keep moving forward !
07-11-2015 08:24 AM
Ash

Quote:

Originally Posted by JE

Never say you don't belong Ash ! Cavern-cave or just free diving....your interest & taking part in learning of this activity more than anything serves to let you take part on this forum. TJ & Russel amongst several others will vouch for this, as will I ! Pursue your dreams & let those who belittle you for doing so, get fat & ugly ! :) keep moving forward !

Well I just now saw this JE, that means a lot! Thanks :) Proud to say that BZu (he mainly just trolls the forum) & I officially completed/passed our Intro to Cave class and dives at the end of last month! Time to let the real learning begin!

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