Wow guided dives to Buford. All you need is AOW.
http://tampa.craigslist.org/psc/spo/1439183064.html
www.supersportsandscuba.com
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Wow guided dives to Buford. All you need is AOW.
http://tampa.craigslist.org/psc/spo/1439183064.html
www.supersportsandscuba.com
Looking at their web page, at least you can be sure your guide will be properly configured. They're an authorized Spare Air dealer.
That is really sad. Buford is a beautiful but very fragile cavern / cave that needs to be protected and not trashed by a bunch of new open water divers bouncing all over the place and causing permanent damage. This is not an AOW dive. It is cavern at a minimum and full cave is ideal. Depths reach 165' and there is a lot of the area that is completely out of the cavern zone and truly cave. I have many dives in there and the increased traffic is starting to have a negative impact.
Great! We'll make it a stage diveQuote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
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Originally Posted by rkij
You should be Technical Spare Air certified.
Amazing...
I predict it won't take much to get this area shut down to cave diving (diving in general). Eagles Nest is abused on a regular basis with OW divers going down to the debris mound,and some instructors using it as a deep training site for noncave divers. Bufurd I understand has its same share of problems. I guess we shouldn't get up in arms when this does happen,because the writing is on the wall.
Has anyone considered getting the guides to become Cavern instructors? That way they won't lead anymore AOW tours. They will sign them up for Cavern instead. At least it will be safer, if not less impact.
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Originally Posted by FW
Sounds vaguely similar to what happened in Mexico quite a few years ago..that didn't end too well.
Can someone identify the shop and/or instructors?
In the past the CDS & NACD have taken it upon themselves to reach out to these folks and attempt to educate them about the error of their ways.
If we can ID them I am sure further attempts will be made.