X in cow

[stairman]

Whats even worse is if its not a fence jumper its an NSSCDS member.

[DA Aquamaster]

Assuming they signed in?

It's a start. As of now we seem to have narrowed it to between Aug 20th and Aug 29th. I am guessing not too many teams dove there in a 9 day period of time.

If we start with the list of people who signed in and ask what they saw we will at a minimum narrow the range further. More to the point, if one of the people gives a response that does not fit the time line (reports seeing an X or not seeing an X in between two people who report the opposite) it identifies them as a possible suspect.

If all the responses of the properly signed in divers are consistent, we will then have as narrow a range of when it happend as we are likely to get. Even it was a fence jumper and they stopped at either shop, the odds of identification go way up. If we enquire at Kathy's and Bill's to identify other divers who may have been in the area, and then if needed collect and cross reference information on where identified divers went, who they saw, etc and from other sources (registrations, etc) we will begin to exclude divers as suspects and, again, pieces of information that don't fit or are inconsitent will identify potential suspects.

The message we need to convey is that if a **** head does something like this, we will make every effort to catch them. Alternatively we could just sit around, ***** about it and think up reasons why we can't find the perp while the trail goes cold.

[KarsticGator]

We didnt see it on the 20th... however, we may have missed it. We may have chalked it up to "did you see where the fixed the clay bank?" or something similar. I remember commenting on saying that they did a really good job of repairing the damage (which we never physically saw), so if the "X" is pronounced as you say it is, then perhaps it wasn't there. BTW... we were the last team in on the 20th.

[fixxervi6]

I still support putting up education signs at the site teaching conservation, if it stops even 1 incident it will be worth it.

[Tegg]

I say we remove the clay bank so as to prevent this type of thing from happening again.

[ARY]

Good idea Joe. Maybe just put a white blank board and hang bunch of markers so kids can mark territory other than on clay banks. Could publish its snapshot once a season or so on Net.

[DA Aquamaster]

I say we remove the clay bank so as to prevent this type of thing from happening again.

Removing it is a lot of work and would blow the viz for awhile. Lets just put up great big steel grates to protect all the clay banks and cool formations that could be vandalized.

Hey wait! maybe we could just install a big acrylic tube up the main line - like the Mall of America aquarium. Then divers could dive upstream cow without actually being able to touch it at all. Every few weeks someone on the 'tube committee' could clean all the graffitti off the inside of the tube.

[TommyB]

Or do like they do in Pompeii. Put a little plexi-glass over the mosaics / paintings on the walls to keep the tards from touching them

[Walter Pickel]

Hey wait! maybe we could just install a big acrylic tube up the main line - like the Mall of America aquarium. Then divers could dive upstream cow without actually being able to touch it at all. Every few weeks someone on the 'tube committee' could clean all the graffitti off the inside of the tube.

Be careful, the instructors might see this as another specialty they can charge for -- tube diving.

[TommyB]

Be careful, the instructors might see this as another specialty they can charge for -- tube diving.

They do already.
I've seen 'em in Texas diving concrete pipe laid end to end, and call it cave training