Please stop trashing Lake Wazee

[john j]

Pearl Lake in my opinion is basically an underwater garbage dump. If it wasn't for the man made items sunk there, it would have absolutely no use other than basic SCUBA training. It's small, shallow, extremely crowded, overused, and the vis is nowhere near what Wazee has.

Oronogo has some nice features with the caverns and shafts, plus some nice depth but again it's a real junkyard because of the items placed in it and especially around it.

Wazee has the depth, size, visibility and natural underwater features that put it in a league of it's own. Why we would need to add man-made junk to it is something I cannot understand and will do everything in my power to oppose. Why is a piece of intentionally placed junk suddenly interesting to some people when it is underwater? It's bad for the environment anyway. There is no way you can clean that stuff up to a degree where it is safe to be in direct contact with the water table. Humans are the only species dumb enough to intentionally and knowlingly trash the environment which they depend on for survival and it will catch up with us eventually.

If you want to add to your diving experience, take some more training classes, go deeper, take pictures, go wreck diving, try some different equipment or something. If diving is still that boring to you, do something else. I've been diving like a maniac for 16 years now and I'm still not bored with it and still have only begun to learn and accomplish what can be done.