Questionnaire findings

Staff · Issue 42, May/Jun 2008 · pp. 4

Editorial It appears that I didn’t need to don my tin hat when reading your responses to our questionnaire. 134 readers have completed it over the past two months and it has, for me, thrown up some interesting results. For instance. The split between DSLR and compact users is approximately 50/50 with around 22% using both and about 17% shooting film. In truth nearly all of the film users also had some digital capacity so I would read that as ‘have the capability of shooting film’ rather than ‘only shoot film’. It surprised me that 41% dive temperate/green water although in fairness maybe we should have given the option to answer ‘both’. Even so it’s an interestingly high figure. Going the other way I was surprised that only 25% chose liveaboards. They have always seemed to me to be the most efficient way to maximise dive time but, obviously, what do I know. One statistic which amazed me …