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i recently had a debate about the correct way to ice dive and i thought i would see what this lists reaction was. We live in northwestern canada and have ice coverd lakes for about eight months of the year so unless one has alot of travel dollars you have to leard to ice dive to get wet. This person was in support of some of the large diving factions standards involving a five person team requiring the divers to be teathered and a teathered safety diver plus two line tenders. my argument was that this seemed to be a little over excessive. I argued that Ice should be dove like any other overhead environment using reels, and gas management principles, and that teathering unnesessary. The divers should be competant enough with there skills that being roped together and to the surface is ridiculous.(perhaps eight dives doesn't classify you as a competent advanced diver.....) usually the way my buddy and i dive is with reels and ice screws in a two man team using thirds. We also carry min of two lights although it is usually unnesesary to use them. the only drawback is thaqt cutting the hole takes more effort. I was wondering how other people dove ice as our tech community is rather isolated and small up here. STEVE SCHINKE ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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