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What the heck is a cave training area?
Vortex Spring Sale Rumor
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PerroneFord
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Vortex would be terrible as a real cave for training. Maybe for sidemount, but anyone with a full cave cert who is looking to train sidemount has MANY better options to consider than Vortex.
mike_s
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jviehe:
I think that's refering to the other pond area away from the dive basin and up near the north side of the campground. I think it was part of the deal to finish that and develop it into a 'cave training area' (as originally planned perhaps).
I guess they are going to put in more 'tunnels' like what are in the main basin.
ScubaKris
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Naturally it would be a joke of a training area, just as the spring is a joke for open water check outs. I remember when you had to do your check out dives in the ocean to get your open water, therwise you just received a scuba cert. Then the land lock guys cried and they changed it.
Get certified at VOrtex, next weekend get dumped off a rig tender in 80' of water, off a bridge span in 4 foot seas, current and the little shark swimming by. I don't think that vortex would be proper prep for that.
Get certified at VOrtex, next weekend get dumped off a rig tender in 80' of water, off a bridge span in 4 foot seas, current and the little shark swimming by. I don't think that vortex would be proper prep for that.
PerroneFord
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WHAT??? You mean they actually certify you at Vortex? We used that for our confined water checkout, then headed to the PC Gulf for open water cert. But that was in 94.
No wonder people are freaking out on these basic ocean dives.
No wonder people are freaking out on these basic ocean dives.
OP
Springs are an accurate training ground for what most new divers experience. I reccomend my students come back for ocean training coned or to do an ocean dive with a divemaster or experienced diver. This serves to keep the initial cost down, and to deal with weather.ScubaKris:
ScubaKris
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Most agencies only require 20 feet for 20 minute s on a checkout dive
OP
That is the MINIMUM, yes.ScubaKris:
UTKnox
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Does anyone know the current status of the sale of Vortex? I was down there this weekend and heard that the paperwork was to be signed this coming Thursday to a non-diving developer who had been buying up land all around the area. I assume this to be the same individual/company/group mentioned previously in this thread, but I could have sworn I heard that that specific deal had fallen through. Perhaps they came back with a better offer, or a deal was struck with someone else.
Ive heard of the theme/animal park . Hmm a golf course usually has million dollar houses on them and the owners probably wouldnt want divers in their view of the water hazard. The whole idea pretty much sucks I hate to see the panhandle become like south FL. Although they may keep the diving even Disney has a dive park. It would be the all inclusive destination .
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