Square Lake platform lines

[Dirk Diggler]

In Minnetonka, you don't have scuba training areas in those boat tracffic areas you speak of.
I have seen hundreds of new divers who simply swim along following those lines and before they know it, are on top of the water. (then they pull on their dump valve and sink like a rock, it happens over and over again like yo-yo's until they get their buoyancy more under control.)

Boaters loading and unloading some times have trouble, they back in and out a lot, sometimes they have to wait above areas in turn. Are they to keep moving out of those areas designated for them to appeaze you, no. There are more instances than that, that could get divers in trouble here.

Furthermore, this isnt a matter of appeazing YOUR fun and you always have the right away -
That area is a PUBLIC ACCESS designated for boats entering and exiting the lake, you are not allowed to dive from there either.
Golden Acres is not a designated public access -it's PRIVATE PROPERTY.

The public access is more of a courtesy to the boaters, to keep the divers out of the area of loading and unloading. (You should be doing the same at Golden Acres)
How many boaters out there know the dive flag laws? Who are we kidding, placing that line simply creates more endangerment. (People have had the foresight of this, NOT to have already done this before)

You're not breaking laws by doing what you are thinking of, but it's more of the courtesy that your imposing on, and potentially creating an additional risk to anyone going into that area by following the lead you are setting.

IF YOU ARE THE ADVANCED DIVERS YOU SAY YOU ARE, WHY DON'T YOU JUST NAVIGATE YOUR WAY OVER THERE BY COMPASS?

I don't think I'm overeacting to anything, 15 feet or otherwise doesn't mean crap when someone surfaces unexpectedly and gets swiped by a boat. Do you want the lawyers calling you for setting that line they followed?

New divers go out there and use those lines as guides - their skills are not good or developed, nor do they think about the potential evasion of boats.
Ignoring that places more risk to those who surface in those areas for whatever reason.

Lay that line, it will be cut.