ASA making an impact on diving in Wakulla County

ASA is pleased to announce that many projects are now underway in Wakulla County. We now have several exploration and survey projects going on and about to start. We will be needing lots of help coming up and all members are encouraged to participate. We will be looking for surface support as well as in water team members. If you are survey savy, and have deep cave qualifications ( 300ft range ) we could use your help.

Some of the exploration projects include Indian Springs and 13 other springs and conduit connecting to Wakulla / Leon sinks. This work is to hopefully open up more diving in this area. There are more projects that we will announce publicly later. Once we start we will be trying to wrap these up in a timely manner so all help will be appreciated. You can pm me here if interested or steve@aquaticscienceassociation.org . We appreciate all the support .

What is the date and time frame?

We need to start ASAP. Some of us are already doing it, need to put the list of everyone together so we can give more accurate information to you guys.

Try to word this differently. GI3 also made an impact on diving in Wakulla County and we see how that turned out. If you guys are saying that only ASA members are invited to participate, then this is deja vu all over again.

John, you are pretty far off on this one. What part of this work is being done to open up more places to diving sounds like GI3? The whole mission of ASA is to make things public, so you missed this by a long shot.
Personally, I will not recommend anyone who isn't an ASA member for any dive team. Sorry but if you want the perks, pay the dues.?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Carlisle

John, you are pretty far off on this one. What part of this work is being done to open up more places to diving sounds like GI3? The whole mission of ASA is to make things public, so you missed this by a long shot.
Personally, I will not recommend anyone who isn't an ASA member for any dive team. Sorry but if you want the perks, pay the dues.?

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Woah, I was trying to be sarcastic, didn't mean to hit a nerve.

No just making sure we aren't thought of like the *%#* $*&%@&$$ &%$$% group that is also in that area :-)

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Originally Posted by Kevin Carlisle

John, you are pretty far off on this one. What part of this work is being done to open up more places to diving sounds like GI3? The whole mission of ASA is to make things public, so you missed this by a long shot.
Personally, I will not recommend anyone who isn't an ASA member for any dive team. Sorry but if you want the perks, pay the dues.?

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This goes the same for our projects in Texas. The dues are menial next to the experience.

We have opportunities here for those dry cavers too!

Exactly. Wish I could come get enough time off to get out there for a few days. We need all kinds of help, not just divers but anyone that wants to help could.

Might want to tell the newer folks what the ASA is. Just a thought :)

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Might want to tell the newer folks what the ASA is. Just a thought :)

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http://aquaticscienceassociation.org/AboutASA.html

Our Mission

It is the intent of ASA to acquire land through acquisition and stewardship programs to be held in public trust for conservation and protection of natural resources. With the managed lands we are able to conduct extensive scientific research and exploration to further the knowledge of our staff who provide direct community support with educational programs and conservation initiatives.

Might want to accept help from anyone too, then if they like what the see, they can join?

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I can't duplicate that, loading fine for me. Thanks for the notice tho.

Kevin, what needs survey at Indian? I know that siphon isn't on the map, Is it done?

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Loaded fine here.Ok so I put my green where my head is.
Now what?

Dive safe,

Celia

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Kevin, what needs survey at Indian? I know that siphon isn't on the map, Is it done?

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I will find out and let you know. I know there is very little done off the main line so there is tons to do there.

There's actually way too much to do with the current active ASA members at hand. I'll bet there are other ASA members who simply don't know what's going on who'd like to participate. A newsletter or something needs to be put up to membership.

Also, you may not want to trash all those associated with wkpp, since a lot of them would like to see more open to the public and could provide help with the projects. Just because some of them are deuchebags, doesn't mean all of them want everything jammed up.

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Originally Posted by SuPrBuGmAn

There's actually way too much to do with the current active ASA members at hand. I'll bet there are other ASA members who simply don't know what's going on who'd like to participate. A newsletter or something needs to be put up to membership.

Also, you may not want to trash all those associated with wkpp, since a lot of them would like to see more open to the public and could provide help with the projects. Just because some of them are deuchebags, doesn't mean all of them want everything jammed up.

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Newsletter is on its way including my first try at producing video to highlight our Jacob's Well project http://vimeo.com/59270528

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Might want to accept help from anyone too, then if they like what the see, they can join?

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It open to everyone, shoot us a message if interested.

Are typical diver cert requirements waived for the projects? Like can full cave divers without mix certs be support divers at Indian, for example.

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Are typical diver cert requirements waived for the projects? Like can full cave divers without mix certs be support divers at Indian, for example.

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If they don't qualify to be in the water they can be surface support.

Right, but thats not what I asked ;) I'm sure people would want to know.

What is ASA? I think of aspirin.

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What is ASA? I think of aspirin.

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See post #11.

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Are typical diver cert requirements waived for the projects? Like can full cave divers without mix certs be support divers at Indian, for example.

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So I found out the answer to this... in water support can be conducted by anyone with overhead experience(cavern on up), within your certification level as long as you are an ASA member.

As this is an ASA project dive, you can dive to your certification level for support, even if you don't qualify for the typical Indian Springs recreational diving requirements.

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in water support can be conducted by anyone with overhead experience(cavern on up), within your certification level as long as you are an ASA member.

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That certainly makes sense. :clapper

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