Ice Diving - Tips?

[JBFG]

I'm going to do my 1st ice diving in 2 weeks.
pretty excited!

The outside temperature should be around -20C and the water just about 3-4C.

Any tips and tricks before I splash?

 

[tursiops]

Is this part of a class, or ad hoc?

 

[JBFG]

Class, PADI course to be more precise

 

[tursiops]

Good class. Excellent manual by Todd Smith, but out of print. Find a copy if you can.
Beneath a Crystal Ceiling: the Complete Guide to Ice Diving by R. Todd Smith

 

[JBFG]

Thanx. I've searched for that book a while back but couldn't find it.
Do you have any tips for one that has never done ice diving?

 

[rgilkes]

Class, PADI course to be more precise

Mind giving details on the course? Location, class, price? Ice diving looks like an awesome experience.

 

[JBFG]

Sure thing!
Wainwright Alberta, Canada.
Class with our local dive shop: About Alberta Adventure Divers
We are diving Clear lake.
Dates are 18-19 March 2017.
Cost is $310.00 all included.

 

[rgilkes]

Are you doing the PADI Ice Diver specialty or Dry Suit or other?

 

[tursiops]

Thanx. I've searched for that book a while back but couldn't find it.
Do you have any tips for one that has never done ice diving?

Don't prebreathe/purge your 2nd stage out of the water.
I hope you get to do the upside-down thing where you get buoyant against the underside of the ice, kneel hands-and-knees upside-down to the ice, and wait a minute or two for your brain to invert everything. Wild! Especially if you are then pulled by your tether to the hole and you....fall into the sky.

See Ice diving - Wikipedia, https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...MYy77GM032JKLN_aw&sig2=yVypZKLO-tDedMu89ZuFOw.

 

[Erich S]

I did my ice diver cert many years ago through PADI and the 1st dive was done in a wet suit and the 2nd dive of the day was done in a dry suit. It was a fun course but very cold in the wet suit dive!