NSS membership poll

[Kelly Jessop]

Poll for the NSS portion of the CDS membership

[Sludge]

Wow! 100 percent! The membership has spoken!

Okay, I know it won't last.

[Line Squirrel]

I have no choice in being both NSS and CDS since I'm paid in full lifer. But given the option when I signed up...it would have been the portion CDS only.

[Hoska]

I wasn't thrilled about having to get the NSS membership when I signed up but I have to say that in the time since I signed up last year I've gotten all kinds of materials from NSS... not so much from CDS (save for several variations of the board ballot). I totally signed up for the magazines =)

[rblackburn]

There is already an organization for cave divers that do not want to be NSS members. It is called the NACD.

Nuff said!

[Hoska]

There is already an organization for cave divers that do not want to be NSS members. It is called the NACD.

Nuff said!

But I really like diving Cow... that alone is worth the price of membership.

[Cali Knucklehead]

But I really like diving Cow... that alone is worth the price of membership.

Exactly.

[FW]

Well, since I was an NSS life member before there was a Cave Diving Section, I may not count, but I think the benefits easily are worth the extra money.

I am also an NACD member, both organizations have things to offer.

[rblackburn]

But I really like diving Cow... that alone is worth the price of membership.

I was just refering to the fact that if you didn't want to join the NSS, there was another cave diving organization. There are benefits to joining the CDS, access to the caves is one, and if you want to join the CDS, NSS membership is a requirement, and think it should remain.

But that said, I was a life member of the NSS before I started cave diving.

[Sludge]

As a protest against having to join the NSS, I only pay up when I'm going to a workshop. If I don't go to the workshop one year, I'll let my membership lapse. I'll remain a non-member until I decide to go to another workshop, then I'll pay up. If I go to this year's it will be the first time I've been to two in a row.

I think it's ridiculous to force me to join a group in which I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST.

If they were to change the rules and allow me to join the CDS only, I'd go ahead and get a Life Membership.