Ginnie closed to diving until further notice?
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Hopefully the tubers and partiers haven't won. Several quarries in the Midwest ended up booting divers in favor of tubers/floaters/drinkers because there was simply more money in that business. Scuba became a losing proposition with the growing cost of insurance and the low volume of divers. Hopefully that doesn't happen at Ginnie but I have my concerns.
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best information available as of now is they are having issues getting their insurance coverage for divers renewed. This is a systemic problem in the industry and is in line with PADI instructors being dropped left and right, PADI itself losing insurance coverage, and the time of year that renewals go through.
What we have to worry about is that they need to decide that the cost of that insurance *which if I were a betting man is over $50k/year for divers* and hassle of getting it renewed is financially viable for them. Personally if I owned it I wouldn't bother since we are most definitely not very financially lucrative to their business model, especially when they seem to have a death about once a year and have to close, but that's a different discussion. Basically we cost more and return less, why bother?
What we have to worry about is that they need to decide that the cost of that insurance *which if I were a betting man is over $50k/year for divers* and hassle of getting it renewed is financially viable for them. Personally if I owned it I wouldn't bother since we are most definitely not very financially lucrative to their business model, especially when they seem to have a death about once a year and have to close, but that's a different discussion. Basically we cost more and return less, why bother?
Gee, I wonder where you got that idea from? 
There's also a lawsuit related to a death of a Commercial Diving Academy graduate and two weeks ago Ginnie was named as a co-defendant.
And something about endangered snails.
And something about endangered snails.
Created a thread on the case in the legal forum.
Ginnie Springs, CDA, and Dive Instructor sued over drowning death
Surprised that this wasn't up there yet. I've attached the amended compliant. I would copy and paste, but it seems that it is an image instead of text. Hopefully some other people can watch this more closely, I only knew about it because it was mentioned in another thread. Facts of the case...
They didn't close for the death recently, just that diving wasn't allowed in Devil's. Ginnie isn't going to turn away money unless they absolutely have to.
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Didn't write that clearly, obviously not closing the entire park, but it is still lost revenue from the divers which is hundreds of dollars a day.
Time to start making money with a front loading pontoon boat to taxi divers to Devils Ear.
