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[john]

Wow guided dives to Buford. All you need is AOW.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/psc/spo/1439183064.html

www.supersportsandscuba.com

[Sludge]

Looking at their web page, at least you can be sure your guide will be properly configured. They're an authorized Spare Air dealer.

[cavediver27]

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.

[huxley]

Depths reach 165' and there is a lot of the area that is completely out of the cavern zone and truly cave.

I guess that is the reason they need to bring their compass, so they can navigate out of the cave zone.

[rkij]

They're an authorized Spare Air dealer.

Great! We'll make it a stage dive

[argyris]

Great! We'll make it a stage dive

You should be Technical Spare Air certified.

[Kelly Jessop]

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.

[FW]

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.

[Kelly Jessop]

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.

I am going to revive my comment that I made. Even though this is probably bad timing,it happens to be very timely. I promise you these sites will be lost if something isn't done to provide some type of control. From past experience in places where they are unable to provide proper supervision,it is easier to shut it down,that try to determine a plan,especially in this time of limited budgets. Since these sites are available to the untrained,and letters from the training agencies are unheeded,something in terms of gating the property and a check in process is sorely needed.

[Green_Streak]