Is Telford diveable once again from land?????

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Originally Posted by mdax

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Two different things.
If you can boat up to the spring and don't step on land the owners can't do a darn thing about it, they can call the cops or holler, whatever...dive all you want.

However at Rock Bluff they may just decide to shoot shotguns overhead continually in an attempt to intimidate you.
Not a big deal, they usually only act out like that when they really have one tied on imo.

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Not to be argumentative,but this isn't accurate. If you can link to the Florida law that can uphold your stance, please do, because people performing this act will need to be armed with this in advance. One of my favorite places has become off limits because of the landowner stating his stance, and he has successfully enforced it, and entry is very similar to Telford.

Is Florida law different than most states in that "navigable waterways are considered public regardless of the land status surrounding them"?

I wouldn't be surprised honestly either way though due to spring protection or the like.

Navigable waterways are public. The issue is what is defined as a navigable waterway.

If Boudreaux and I can feet a small bateau in it and get down da bayou, den it's navigable, sha!

What inverted bear said. Not statue, but an article published by the Florida Bar Association discussing Florida court decisions on the issue. Most of it deals with tidal lands rather than spring runs, but still interesting. Just because you can get an inflatable dingy up it doesn't make it a "navigable waterway for useful purposes".

https://www.floridabar.org/divcom/jn...256B280076F439

I think if you truly navigate by boat, full of cave diving gear of all things, then you meet that criteria.

"Navigable" means commercial freight traffic, not kayaks, canoes, etc. Big rivers are "navigable", spring runs are NOT!

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Originally Posted by inverted_bear

Navigable waterways are public. The issue is what is defined as a navigable waterway.

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Depends on who's on the bank holding a 12 gauge.

Definition of navigable
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a : deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships <navigable waterways>

Forrest and Webster agree.

Time to name my canoe "Ship".

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Originally Posted by FW

"Navigable" means commercial freight traffic, not kayaks, canoes, etc. Big rivers are "navigable", spring runs are NOT!

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Some say these are waterways under control of Army Corp of Engineer. There is a case here with the Ichuaway creek and an ecological center blocking the river. It may be a Federal issue.

Two things we like to call upon, navigable waterways and Sportsman's Act, but neither have ever had a good interpretation in the context we like to reference them and use them.