Have you gotten bent?

[Jay]

I would seriously doubt that. Claimed dives or actual dives?

I know a lot of divers who claim to have x number of dives, but when you analyze it, they're nowhere near.

I've been diving for 22 years, I'm working on a string of 119 consecutive months with at least one dive, and I'm still not at 1,000.

Are you talking cave dives or all dives Russell?

I have been diving 22 years. I had over 200 dives in the first two years, then I started teaching. I hit 1000 in about 8 years, I think. I was pretty consistent about logging every dive ( for liability reasons) and I would pass my log books around to the students to encourage them to log dives after being certified. Some were pretty short, but if it did not qualify as a dive per PADI, I did not log it. Of course 1 or 2 weeks of 20+ dive "vacations" per year adds up pretty quick too. The quality/duration has definitely gone up and the quantity down as I got more into tech and cave.

[Cindy]

I notice that as the poll gets more attention, the percentage of "hits" drops. That tells me that Skip is probably right about who responds to the poll. FWIW, I have all three safety awards, and have never had a DCS incident (knock on wood).

That's because of those surface intervals between sumps! But then you might exert yourself a tiny bit after a dive. mmmmm