not sure of any specific ones, but I know Bryan at
@Lake Hickory Scuba goes up and does ice diving every year. That'd be a good start
@cmcdarris, as
@tbone1004 stated, we go up every March and Ice Dive in Lake Champlain and Chazy Lake, in the Adirondacks Mountains, in upstate New York. We can teach the class through SSI, PADI, PDIC, SEI, and CMAS. Ice diving is a very unique type of diving, but like cave diving and technical diving, there are more risks involved than just regular recreational diving. With this being said, we tend to do a 3 month program starting in January, where a student will make at least 10 dives in water colder than 50 degrees, usually here in our lake or a local quarry, to help prepare them for the extreme temperatures they will feel while up north. Just as a reference, water temperature where we dive in New York, is 34 degrees and air temperature ranges from below 0-20 degrees. The classroom portion isn't that bad, roughly 10 hours of class, but we have to make sure all students can handle the environment and the basic skills they learned in Open Water, but at depth, in 34 degree water, and under a canopy. During the 3 month prep diving, students will primarily focus on mask removal and replacement, while being tended on a line, and with a simulated canopy over top. The target time frame for us, is either the first or second week in March, all dependent on how fast the lakes freeze up north. In the event a student is unable to budget the cost of the class and trip, we can do it here, as standards only require a small canopy of ice, and not the 2-4 feet of ice we cut through up north. That being said, our lake very rarely freezes over. Here is some of our recent trips up to Lake Champlain.
