DEMA seems to be spending a fair amount of energy (and probably money) promoting divecaching, but I think they overlooked a critical component and mudchick hit the nail on the head:
I'm a cacher too and was initially excited about the program until someone asked me how they could easily locate listings for divecaches in the area. It turns out the only way to do it (and it's still imperfect even then) is to spend $30/year on a premium geocaching.com membership so you can search on cache "attributes".
Basically DEMA's and Groundspeak (owners of geochaching.com) are saying "Hey, you're a diver. Here's a fun activity that you might try at the same time, but you've gotta give us $30 before you can even start to try it." Unless they can find a easy and free way for divers without geocaching experience to search for divecaches, I think they're going to have a very hard time getting the momentum they're hoping for.
I'm told there are some spots available at geocaching.com but couldn't find anything pertinent unless I bought the upgraded membership and I didn't want to do that unless there was some interest or some helpful info for the area. I've done some land caching and it's fun. Looking for stuff underwater has to be a great challenge.
I'm a cacher too and was initially excited about the program until someone asked me how they could easily locate listings for divecaches in the area. It turns out the only way to do it (and it's still imperfect even then) is to spend $30/year on a premium geocaching.com membership so you can search on cache "attributes".
Basically DEMA's and Groundspeak (owners of geochaching.com) are saying "Hey, you're a diver. Here's a fun activity that you might try at the same time, but you've gotta give us $30 before you can even start to try it." Unless they can find a easy and free way for divers without geocaching experience to search for divecaches, I think they're going to have a very hard time getting the momentum they're hoping for.