(Extreme) Cold Weather Diving

[FinnMom]

We don't need to read some reporters idea on what went wrong on the Coast Guard dive, you can find the USCG's report online. What didn't go wrong is a better question. Just one example, the dive plan was for max 20' dive but the tenders let out enough line that the divers came up with max depths on their computers that were 187' and 200'.

But we digress. The Healy incident was also ice diving, otherwise it's completely unrelated to this thread. If anyone wants to discuss the Healy accident please start a new thread.

 

[John C. Ratliff]

I was simply using the Healy accident (there were fatalities) to illustrate the need to maintain control of buoyancy during the dive. Again, if diving with oral inflation only (disconnecting the power inflator), then start out neutral in the water at the surface without the help of the BC. A breath or two is all that is needed to give buoyancy control in that configuration.

SeaRat