lake diving permits

[scubadog76]

Start filling your tanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

After having tons of calls dodged and not returned by managers of the Parks, I got through to the Superintendent, Jon Gurban, on the first  try.  I asked about the permit policy for diving and he very humbley said that he was not familiar with it at all and asked what I new of it.  He also agreed that $35.00 seemed terribly steep.  He asked what other county parks charged for a fee, if any.  I told him that the marine sanctuary in Cozumel only charged $2.00 a day.  He told me that they were having a meeting on several issues this afternoon and he would bring it up.

At 3:30, he called me back :o to say that there were 2 options:  I could go down to the Park Board and buy a scuba permit, and be the first person to ever buy a scuba permit in the history of the park board, OR I could just go dive any lake in the Minneapolis park system.  "The lakes are free to scuba dive in". He said.  He also said they were planning to overhaul there website because there are other errors too.

I told him there is probably a group of divers that would do a cleanup dive as a token of thanks and he said they would see what they could do to accomodate it-

See you in the water-Jeff