Clickable Poll on Cave Divers' Age

[r4e]

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?

[gschaut]

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.

[BecKave]

Cavern -14
Intro - 16
Full - 18
Now i'm in the 30-40 lol ouch

[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!

[Ash]

<30

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

[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...

[Aotus]

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...

[fishinmaniac]

25 here, full cave. Can't say that I ever see many cave divers my age at sites.

[OutOfTest]

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


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[Sludge]

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.