I have yet to see some one checking permits.
I will name them: next level dive club. They’re members are constantly doing stupid stuff and posting it on fb where they egg each other on. There’s rarely a member trying to explain to people doing stupid stuff why they shouldn’t. The majority of people I’ve met from this club are people I would never dive with due to their mentality.
I have no problem naming names because Years ago EZ scuba in tampa was notorious for taking improperly trained divers into eagles nest and Buford. They even had directions to both on their website and encouraged students to dive there. I made a comment on Cdf about it being inappropriate for a “technical” shop to be promoting these locations on their website and brought up them bringing untrained people there. The owner saw it and pulled the info off their site.
yeah.. I sorta had a social-media run in with a “prominent” member of that group. All I did was post up a “keep an eye out” notice on CDF based on a series of fb+Yt videos and threads. Seems a “well known” cave personality shared my post with the NLDC overlord. Next think I know, my name was posted all over Facebook, with blatant lies. Distorting the comments I made, calling me a liar and a coward.
sort of funny, how much I seemed to strike such a sensitive nerve. Then I got several “off the radar” messages from people who backed up my side of the story. When I confronted NLDC with facts, and screenshots... he seemed to back down and pulled down his comments.
There were quite a few folks who piled on and further disparaged my name during the 6-8 hrs this stayed posted up on FB. I have a good, long memory folks... I stand by every thing I said on CDF.. Folks should be a little more careful when they try to backstab someone, without getting all the facts.
I will echo a wise comment that was conveyed to me during this event.
“Every one promotes the ‘see something, say something’ montra... but when someone actually does speak up.. they get vilified and criticized”. (Paraphrased)
There seems to be quite a few people in diving who are trying to monetize their social media footprint. They really don’t give a **** about the overall health of the sport, the community, or the safety of anyone. They are in it to promote their own self serving goals.
