Tobermory dive permit prices going up.

[D M I]

Hi

I just heard from the park officials that next year your park permit will cost you $20 up from $15 and the following year it will once agiain go up to $25. Your federal goverment is giving it to you up the yang yang once more.

D M I

 

[Rooster1]

D M I once bubbled...
Hi

I just heard from the park officials that next year your park permit will cost you $20 up from $15 and the following year it will once agiain go up to $25. Your federal goverment is giving it to you up the yang yang once more.

D M I

Doesn't surprise me. Government here has been sticking it to us for years and it's getting worse. The thing I never figured out about Toby is how come you can swim at phatom 5 and snorkel the wrecks but if you put a tank on your back you have to pay?

 

[Warren_L]

Because if you're a scuba diver, you've probably spent lots of $$ already, so what's another $15?

 

[JJ1]

what exactly is there justification for the $15+ fee on diving?

btw - I think it's time for a big@$$ revoloution in canada.........

 

[divedude]

JJ1 once bubbled...
what exactly is there justification for the $15+ fee on diving?

btw - I think it's time for a big@$$ revolution in canada.........

I think the Fee is to go toward moorings and buoys but........ it's goverment run. We seem to do alright here in Kingston with Moorings and we have no $15 fee added on to your dive, and we have no goverment "Help"

 

[D M I]

Hello

I think the reason is that the amount of divers visiting the park in the last two years has dropped considerably as well as Canadian and American families camping. The entire economy of Tobermory is doing bad.

D M I

 

[Groundhog246]

It's not completely Government run, many volunteers involved. Among other things, the tag fee paid for the platform, changehouse/washrooms at the tugs and pays for maintenance for same. The staff also co-ordinate the schedules for the charters and glass bottom boats so they don't interfere with each other (or would you enjoy having a tour boat passing overhead while you're on a shallow wreck?). Then there's enforcement who try to monitor the condition of the wrecks and keep people from vandalising them and taking "souveniers" and keep boaters out of the diving areas.

In recent times, federal and provincial parks get very little of our tax dollars and are expected to pay they're own way. Some do it with user fees. Some more "wild" areas by limited harvesting of resources, such as logging of older trees. Why should the general public pay the cost for services that only divers use?

Or perhaps they should forget the park idea and cease to monitor at all?

 

[D M I]

Hi

Yes! that's all true, but its also an idiotic time to start raising prices when your attendance is down. I spoke to Lawrence Began? former owner of Diver Down who owns two home in Tobermory and a charter business, he mention that all dive charter businesses up there are dead. Time to face the fact diving has hit it slack tide in Tobermory.

D M I'

 

[DIZZY]

They have put the price up for the last 4 or 5 years anyway, and now for the next two. Charter prices have also gone up and yet food quality has gone down while prices still rise.
Toby had better watch out. They are putting themselves out of bussiness.
I know I'm thinking of crossing Toby off the list !

 

[snuggle]

food quality?mind telling me what raising he fee to dive has anything to do with restaurants and their food?if your upset about the new fee thats fine but dont drag someone else into this by saying that their foods no good..if your not happy then bring your own..i still think its worth the 25 to dive there since its only once a year right or am i wrong?