Ice Diving - Tips?
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You too! I hope the OP doesn't mind this temporary hijack. Brothers and sisters under Canadian ice. It is all good.
@racanichou, please write-up your experience. Have fun, be safe. Go slowly if you invert, knocking a mask off on an ice protrusion is no fun at all.
@racanichou, please write-up your experience. Have fun, be safe. Go slowly if you invert, knocking a mask off on an ice protrusion is no fun at all.
Do not exhale into the regulator prior to submerging. The moist exhalation will cause ice crystals to form in wrong places and that makes your regs to leak air. Also, do not get snow into the regs. If gear is frozen, it will melt in the *warm* water.
use one of these (Kraken DH):
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Oh the Kraken!!!
looks like you had lots of fun!
My turn this weekend. the weather is suppose to be beautiful here now (around 0).
so excited!
looks like you had lots of fun!
My turn this weekend. the weather is suppose to be beautiful here now (around 0).
so excited!
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Don't taste the sea pickles?
Lmao at a WWTP the other day..
Seriously however, a nice semi dry suit and a hot water pressure washer , with a lead dangling in the water is the best. Stuff the donkey in your suit and do the shimmy
. I only require a light wet suit to dangle in cold water, and the hot water stays in real well with some tape on the ankles and integrated hood.
Lmao at a WWTP the other day..
Seriously however, a nice semi dry suit and a hot water pressure washer , with a lead dangling in the water is the best. Stuff the donkey in your suit and do the shimmy
. I only require a light wet suit to dangle in cold water, and the hot water stays in real well with some tape on the ankles and integrated hood.Attachments
hey I know that kracken guy ......
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OK, @rhwestfall (Bob). If I can coerce @abnfrog into to emailing me a team pic, and a pic of me certing, then I'll start a "team two" class report. Just got back, I need sleep...
-still waiting on team one's report.
-still waiting on team one's report.
I'd have to look at the standard but does PADI allow ice diving courses to be conducted with -20C air temperatures?
I didn't do PADI, I took my ice diving from IANTD but their standard wouldn't allow diving when it was that cold, IIRC.
At -20C you will need to assemble and check your gear indoors and transport it to the dive site already assembled. If you try "testing" a regulator with that kind of air temperature before you get in the water you'll probably end up with a frozen regulator and having to abort the dive.
When I did my course I think the air temperature was -15c on the last day and we needed to get in the water and submerge close to the entry point for a few minutes to let the gear "warm up" before continuing the dive. At +2 the water was MUCH warmer than the air so this was time well spent. Even at that I did one dive that day with 3 divers in the water, all wearing drysuits, which means 6 inflator mechanisms, and 4 of them froze.
Expect those kinds of problems and train to deal with it ahead of time.
R..
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