Over the course of several months, I have collected responses to surveys that have allowed me to form an opinion about the average scuba diver. Here is what I have discovered.

• Most divers don’t care if the color or brand of their gear matches.
• Most divers fart or burp underwater, without affecting buoyancy.
• Open heel fins are preferred over full foot fins.
• Saturday is the most popular day of the week to go scuba diving.
• Divers love two movies equally, The Abyss and Into the Blue.
• Many scuba divers have used defective scuba gear.
• Divers tend to score pretty high on tests.
• Scuba gear is mainly stored in a diver’s house.
• A bathing suit or swim shorts are the most popular under a wetsuit.
• Lots of scuba divers have been bitten by something underwater.
• Nearly 60% of scuba divers dive naked.
• Most scuba divers pee in their wetsuit, many even pee in a borrowed wetsuit.

Comments

OUBobcat - 7/31/2013 7:08 PM Truth is tho one can only fart down to 33 feet. Anything deeper than that its impossible! :) Greg - 8/01/2013 5:29 AM I never considered this...I suppose its due to air compression. Eric_R - 8/01/2013 2:25 PM Maybe for you.;) OUBobcat - 8/01/2013 7:54 PM I heard it on a radio show on the "Wierd Facts" part of the show Eric_R - 8/01/2013 8:06 PM Do you think Whales have to come up to 30’? Greg - 8/02/2013 6:44 AM I am no whale expert, but I am pretty sure whales have much larger intestines and other body parts that make it easier to "relieve pressure" deeper under water.

daz88 - 7/23/2013 10:41 PM I’ll have to remember to never let anyone barrow my wetsuit

Eric_R - 7/23/2013 6:37 PM Great stats.

McNair - 7/23/2013 1:26 PM LOL Touche on Jessica Alba! I plead the fifth on "Diving with defective gear." Fun facts though!

aggiediver69 - 7/23/2013 10:11 AM I just want Jessica Alba as a dive buddy!!! Hope she’s a 60 percenter lol!!!! Greg - 7/24/2013 6:43 AM Whats a 60 percenter? McNair - 7/24/2013 8:12 AM 60% of divers diving naked. The stat reads confusing. 60% of diver HAVE dived naked. I also would hope she is in that 60% and on her 100th dive.

Eve - 7/23/2013 8:19 AM good to know