Return of the NACD

[Walter Pickel]

Seems like it was 11,000 not too many years ago - or maybe that was wishful remembering on my part. At least Tracy and I are two of them.

In 2003 it was 12,314 (highest) and in 2004 it was 12,263. The steady decline started in 2005 and membership numbers have never gone back up.

As an aside, isn't nice to belong to an organization that doesn't hide numbers?

[TracyN]

I will be renewing my NSS membership and not the CDS. I still like to cave dive but I feel I can do more in the NSS protecting bats and preserving habitats.

[tbone1004]

In 2003 it was 12,314 (highest) and in 2004 it was 12,263. The steady decline started in 2005 and membership numbers have never gone back up.

As an aside, isn't nice to belong to an organization that doesn't hide numbers?

IIRC it wasn't a steady decline.... It about halved when you got booted, halved again when they put Rob in as TD, then died died shortly thereafter....

[Walter Pickel]

IIRC it wasn't a steady decline.... It about halved when you got booted, halved again when they put Rob in as TD, then died died shortly thereafter....

Those are NSS numbers, not NACD But I do agree with you regarding the ouster of Bert Wilcher, Curt Bowen, myself, etc.

[tbone1004]

Those are NSS numbers, not NACD But I do agree with you regarding the ouster of Bert Wilcher, Curt Bowen, myself, etc.

sorry, nvm. I do distinctly remember looking at the NACD membership figures and seeing a very curious correlation in BoD events and membership numbers. In the "real world" you analyze those, find the root cause, and fix the root cause. If you don't, you end up where the NACD is right now....

[scubainchicago]

sorry, nvm. I do distinctly remember looking at the NACD membership figures and seeing a very curious correlation in BoD events and membership numbers. In the "real world" you analyze those, find the root cause, and fix the root cause. If you don't, you end up where the NACD is right now....

I think I read somewhere that the NACD is very much alive (and actively bankrupting one of their former volunteers).

[Curt Bowen]

I think I read somewhere that the NACD is very much alive (and actively bankrupting one of their former volunteers).

Yes and that is probably why the poll reads 70 percent say NO

[Jack Hammer]

In all fairness there should have been an option for still sifting through the BS, or basically undecided.

[Curt Bowen]

10 years is a LONG long time to be sifting. If you where sifting for gold and didnt find any for 10 years, you would had given up.

In all fairness there should have been an option for still sifting through the BS, or basically undecided.

[scubainchicago]

In all fairness there should have been an option for still sifting through the BS, or basically undecided.

I think Rick has been actively mining through the pile of "$h!t" he's created over the last 10 years and refuses to accept defeat.