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  I wrote:-
> Keep on diving and ignore the silly thing.

  "Hugh A. Huntzinger" (CCAC) <huntzing@PI*.AR*.MI*> replied:-
> It's not a "it here be illegal" unless you fail to notify. They could really
> ruin your day if they wanted to be authoritarian. Expect this.

> Why did the ordnance come about? What it is that the Sherriff _REALLY_
> wants?
  As with over-rigid controls on sport diving in various countries, likely:
Desire to control for its own sake. Not liking civilians having the freedom to
sport dive at will. An authoritarian idea that "diving should be for necessary
underwater work and action only and every dive and its purpose authorized from
above, etc, #insert <Mein.Kampf.h>". (Compare with that on the south coast of
England I heard 2 years ago reports of naval divers on operations attacking
sport divers who they found underwater while on operation, even though the
sport divers involved were breaking no law or regulation.) Perhaps, financial
connection with PADI. We don't need these controls. We insist on being our own
masters as to where we dive, without delays and expense having to run to
officials first every dive. (Once about 20 years ago the state of California
tried tight controls on who dived, but the sport diving magazines etc told the
sport divers in time and the new law was aborted under massive protest.)

> Can a local shop handle it all for him?
  With delays and complications and expense which sport diving would rather be
spared. Both I and the cops have more to do than having to report to the cops
every time I go on a dive. It will likely end up merely as massive evasion.

> (Will the process make any difference if an accident occurs?) If you just
> swamp their fax machine with pages every time you file, then $5 permits will
> be suggested next to cover the costs.

> Why did the ordnance come about?
  Note: `ordnance' = "artillery", `ordinance' = "law, command". (To British
readers: Neither word means "maps". The Ordnance Survey is so called because
in the beginning they were set up to make maps so the Army knew where the
roads were good enough for artillery etc to pass.)

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