When I was a child in the early sixties, the age of sixty was old, not because I was six and anyone older than 21 was decrepit, but because seniors in their sixties were seen as waiting by their firesides to die.
Five decades later, the conceptual view of seniors is more likely to be them bathing on the beaches of Borneo or other exotic places instead of sitting by their firesides. Greater advances in health care mean that people are not only living longer but are fitter and ealthier, in control of their health and lives.
Seniors over fifty are thankfully no longer prepared to accept their life is over. There are many things that they are attempting both by travelling and being more adventurous on their own doorstep.
I have been a passionate scuba diver for over thirty years and I have learned a thing or to about it and the first is that scuba diving is not one of those hobbies that age is a barrier to; age is of a positive benefit to the scuba diver.
Is scuba diving dangerous? Yes, it can be–but so is driving, and for that matter, living. And I am not sure that it is not one of those things that everyone insists is more dangerous than it...