Dive Wakulla

If this is a real idea that is being considered by the state then they can :blackbar2

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Originally Posted by marinediver

If this is a real idea that is being considered by the state then they can :blackbar2

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I'll second that.

$300 for a ONE use license???

Darn!! What the heck does that include??

Better include use of rebreather, sorb and bailout tanks with appropriate mixes...

Who dreamed this idea up???

NO WAY!!

Dive safe,

Celia

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Originally Posted by marinediver

If this is a real idea that is being considered by the state then they can :blackbar2

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No this is not a "real idea" being considered by the state. Just me trying to get some real info for an economic research project i am doing. Bill

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Originally Posted by amphipod06

$300 for a ONE use license???

Darn!! What the heck does that include??

Better include use of rebreather, sorb and bailout tanks with appropriate mixes...

Who dreamed this idea up???

NO WAY!!

Dive safe,

Celia

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It's just a poll <lol> please answer according to your willingness to pay to do the dive. On several occasions i have paid a boat captain $200 just to drive me out to a wreck off pensacola and i live there. Others have paid well more than that (the average total expenditure is about $500) to do two open water type dives on the Oriskany. Bill

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Originally Posted by aainslie

Good one!

Will they be charging the GUE guys $300 per dive?

That's rhetorical... but since I went there, I'll tell you what - I'll pay $300 if they also charge the GUE guys. Hell, I'd pay it and not do the dive! :)

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Hey Andrew, you know contingent valuation...actually most of the poor gue slobs in the end pay well more than that for the meager dives they get helping to push the chosen few to the summit. You also know the siege approach to mountaineering i would imagine. Bill

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Originally Posted by wingman

...You also know the siege approach to mountaineering i would imagine. Bill

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I chuckled :) Never heard it put that way.

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Originally Posted by wingman

It's just a poll <lol> please answer according to your willingness to pay to do the dive. On several occasions i have paid a boat captain $200 just to drive me out to a wreck off pensacola and i live there. Others have paid well more than that (the average total expenditure is about $500) to do two open water type dives on the Oriskany. Bill

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Bill, the difference would be that the boat captain isn't telling you what dives you can do and how to conduct them. I know that both of us purchase the annual to the systems just up the road from Weekie, and in my mind that's great value for the dollar.

I would consider paying $300 for an annual up at the WKKP stomping grounds, but it would have to be 24/7 unlimited access for me to commit that kind of money.

As a friend of mine said to me "I'm sick of hearing people ***** about diving Wakulla, you can a) get the training through GUE b) sneak it like everybody else c) petition the state to let you dive it"

I haven't dove Wakulla, but there is nothing IMHO that's worth $300 in either system. Maybe we should change the CDS/NACD cave signs to "there's nothing in this cave worth paying for"

Just my thoughts as always..... :)

Safe diving,

Rich

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Originally Posted by wingman

It's just a poll <lol> please answer according to your willingness to pay to do the dive. On several occasions i have paid a boat captain $200 just to drive me out to a wreck off pensacola and i live there. Others have paid well more than that (the average total expenditure is about $500) to do two open water type dives on the Oriskany. Bill

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The boat owner has to cover the fuel costs, boat maintainance, and he is trying to make a living or make some scratch.

As others have stated, people pay taxes already.

I would love to dive Wakulla one day, I'd pay $200 for a guided dive but i my eyes that would be for the guide and his/her time, not for a license to dive it.

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Originally Posted by Rich

Bill, the difference would be that the boat captain isn't telling you what dives you can do and how to conduct them. I know that both of us purchase the annual to the systems just up the road from Weekie, and in my mind that's great value for the dollar.

I would consider paying $300 for an annual up at the WKKP stomping grounds, but it would have to be 24/7 unlimited access for me to commit that kind of money.

As a friend of mine said to me "I'm sick of hearing people ***** about diving Wakulla, you can a) get the training through GUE b) sneak it like everybody else c) petition the state to let you dive it"

I haven't dove Wakulla, but there is nothing IMHO that's worth $300 in either system. Maybe we should change the CDS/NACD cave signs to "there's nothing in this cave worth paying for"

Just my thoughts as always..... :)

Safe diving,

Rich

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Hey Rich, Thanks...the boat captain does tell most divers what they can and can't do, ie. no decompression etc. Yes there's consumer surplus (what you called value) to be had from the boyscouts (that is we actually pay less then what we were willing to pay) and the wmca for that matter near Wakulla. I know you understand consumer surplus as you are always mentioning it when we talk about actual price vs retail price on cee gear :) I am just doing a research project on diver demand for cave systems and the polls are just giving us an idea about how to specify the questions in the demand study. Bill