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These guys were at a dive site this weekend. They are from a LDS. Notice that four of them are going in without lines! A fifth diver joined up with them who also did not use lines. Look at the mask on the ice....they have their snorkels!!! I have shadded their faces to protect their identity.
Yes there is at least one instructor in the group. How do we get safety accross to some people???????
IMO, you shouldn't hide their identity. Some poor person may end up taking a class from the shop/instructor and also end up diving under the ice with a snorkel.
Look at it this way...What would the Darwin awards be without people like this!
"I'm Warren Miller and about 50 years ago, back in 1946 when I was a senior in college, I went skiing on the second weekend in November. On Monday morning, I went back and dropped out of school. Since then, I've never looked back." - Warren Miller
It reminds me of the show I saw last night on PBS about these guy's that were diving at the Antarctic. None of them had reels or doubles or any kind of redundancy incase anything went wrong. Thankfully they had a chamber on site because one guy acually got bent. Now I know it was just a tee vee show so you don't always get the whole story, but there where some disturbing things there to say the least.
It's thin enough maybe they thought they could just punch a hole in it anywhere they need on. Or, better yet, maybe it's a drift dive and you just didn't see their exit hole downstream!.
I'm doing some ice diving in a couple of weeks as a specialty course. I'm sending this to my instructor to include as a what not to do when ice diving.
All I've really done so far is read the materail he has on preparation, safety, etc and that's not the visual image of an ice diving site I have in my mind.
"I'm Warren Miller and about 50 years ago, back in 1946 when I was a senior in college, I went skiing on the second weekend in November. On Monday morning, I went back and dropped out of school. Since then, I've never looked back." - Warren Miller
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