Accident Waiting to Happen

[GreenDiverDown]

newdiverAZ once bubbled...
Stephen was it the "Diver Down"?

Yep... Doug Martin.

SA

 

[GreenDiverDown]

These guys...

http://www.azdiveboats.com/

SA

 

[newdiverAZ]

yep I dive with that shop. friend of mine is an instructor there.

 

[O-ring]

Big-t-2538 once bubbled...
Maybe they're all carrying portable underwater GPS units to track their way back to the hole....I've got to get me one of those.

I think those are on the list of brain rotting devices...

 

[Bubble Boy]

It is in a quarry max depth about 125feet. The ice was "thin" as it was only 6-8". The bottom can be stired up to silt out. There was no open water other than their hole and the one on the otherside of the quarry where our group was diving with a triangular shapped hole, two rescue divers, two tenders, a divemaster and etc, etc.

Sometimes the gene pool just needs a little bit of chlorine!

 

[dc4bs]

Yah, I was going to bring up the hole shape...

I have never ice dived but I remember hearing that the hole should be triangular but I don't remember exactly why.

I was scheduled to dive Sunday morning here in NJ (DM for final dive of a drysuit course). We canceled because of too much ice on the shoreline. Plenty of open water but we figured better to err on the side of caution.

 

[roakey]

http://www.underctek.com/open/ice2001/block.jpg

The block that came out of the hole is on the right hand side of the picture.

Twin Lakes, 10k foot altitude dive.

Roak

 

[GTADiver]

A Dr making a presentation at the UHMS meeting last fall joked "the scuba tree of life is often self pruning"

 

[AzAtty]

...at least one of them has color-coordinating fins and tank, and another is wearing an "extreme" BC, so they're in good shape. Rule No. 6, baby!

 

[Bubble Boy]

Sorry, I forgot about that. Rule 6 overlooked again!