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>> If you live in Ontario the water gets so viscous in the winter that you >> can not dive but just skid along the surface causing microvascular > >damage. >Yeah, it sucks when nobody brings the chainsaw (or it breaks down) and >you can't get into the divesite. Usually we try to have two saws onsite >just to be on the safe side. After 20 years of fighting with them, I don't use chain saws anymore. I have gone back to the tried and true technology of our fathers - hand ice saws. They do not polute the water with gas and oil. They don't use more energy pull starting them than they expend on the ice. They don't stop working because they get wet. They also are easier and faster to use. Several times last year I had other groups of divers out at the dive sites borrow my ice saw when they gave up using their chain saws. Ice saws are not easy to find. They are not, to my knowledge, manufactured anymore. They can sometimes be found in antique stores in areas in which ice was harvested from the lakes in the days before mechanical refrigeration. Bottom line - we can't use chain saw problems as an excuse for not diving. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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