Winter Snorkelling...

[RTC'83]

Beautiful and dangerous.

 

[KeithG]

At his furthest penetration under the ice.the guy can see the hole and his partner at the hole. He's not going to get lost.

Are there different best practises for ice free diving vs ice scuba?

I know nothing about ice diving, but I worked in the Soo for a bit and a coworker was an ice diver and he also played underwater hockey (WTF - real hockey is played on top of the water). He claimed that rope tethers and a reliable chainsaw were mandatory ice diving.

It was not about what normally happens, it was all about what happens in the worst case.

 

[nadwidny]

Are there different best practises for ice free diving vs ice scuba?

I know nothing about ice diving, but I worked in the Soo for a bit and a coworker was an ice diver and he also played underwater hockey (WTF - real hockey is played on top of the water). He claimed that rope tethers and a reliable chainsaw were mandatory ice diving.

It was not about what normally happens, it was all about what happens in the worst case.

A reliable chainsaw is the only mandatory item (hard to get below the ice without one). We used to run ice dives like our cave dives. No tethers, just cave line. Some RCMP guy said we were all going to die. We didn't.