Organization Membership

[OFG-1]

I am a charter member of Florida Underwater Cave Education and Marineexploration, as well as a founding member of the Karst Underwater Navigation Team, and an associate member of Professional Underwater Scuba Instruction. Details are here:

http://thedecostop.com/forums/showth...ighlight=fucem

[Jack Hammer]

I am a charter member of Florida Underwater Cave Education and Marineexploration, as well as a founding member of the Karst Underwater Navigation Team, and an associate member of Professional Underwater Scuba Instruction. Details are here:

http://thedecostop.com/forums/showth...ighlight=fucem

Just spit my coffee out remembering that one...=p

[Jack Hammer]

Just because the organizations aren't always out banner waving on the forums and at dive sites does not mean they don't do anything and/or are worthless. I believe there is more going on than we hear about. These are volunteer organizations run by unpaid people who actually have to commit personal time and money. They are doing more than most of the complainers put together. Help them to improve by supporting them constructively.

[AMW]

CDG (Cave Diving Group) founded in 1946

Andrew

[Kirk]

I joined the National Speleological Society, within which I’m a member of two grottos: the Cave Diving Section and the Minnesota Caving Club. I joined these chapters because they own cave entrances, and provide access to them to their members.

[Aotus]

CDS - because I saw that they're tied to a large organization that fosters research around the world, and so I can meet and talk with speleological researchers. Also, as a PhD student paleoprimatologist involved with recovery and analysis of paleontological remains recovered from flooded caves, I'd hoped to learn more about cave research (deposition, stratigraphy, paleontology) and take advantage of the grants available from the NSS-CDS in pursuit of this research.

[Ben M]

Anybody know ballpark numbers on how large current paid membership is for any of these organizations?

[Kelly Jessop]

Anybody know ballpark numbers on how large current paid membership is for any of these organizations?

NFSA is approx. 250 people +/-. yearly dues are $15 (less than a nitrox fill)
Mission of the NFSA is provide support to Madison, Peacock, Lafayette, and Troy as a state park CSO.
Have provided a lot of tangible benefits to cave diving visitors- tank benches, walkway to P1, changing room, antislip treads Madison, interpretive trail etc etc.

[moody]

NFSA is approx. 250 people +/-. yearly dues are $15 (less than a nitrox fill)
Mission of the NFSA is provide support to Madison, Peacock, Lafayette, and Troy as a state park CSO.
Have provided a lot of tangible benefits to cave diving visitors- tank benches, walkway to P1, changing room, antislip treads Madison, interpretive trail etc etc.

And they do an excellent newsletter. I have been a member for the last couple of years and will continue to support the good work they do. Also am a member of the CDS, have been since becoming full cave in 2011.

[rchrds]

CDS life member. Perhaps the only reason I am still a member. At least they do produce a periodical, and the weekend conventions are worth going to, if for nothing more than catching up with friends. (The haskel booster repair class a few years ago was awesome.) Unfortunately I feel (and have always felt) that they are more interested in your money reaped from instruction than they are in protecting caves, but that is true for most of the diving organizations. Perhaps some day will change, but I'm not holding my breath.