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Cave diving is not the same as ice diving. Please get that though your skull. I have done a river dive for a mile 25 times and have never surfaced. Does that qualify me to do a 2,500 penetration. I don't think so. Why do you think you can use cave equipment to ice dive? I can say the same thing about cave diving. What is at 1,000 feet that isn't at 100'. I believe it is still just rock. I understand the scientific value of deep penetration, but why do it for fun. We in the north have to accept that for 4 months a year of our dive season has ice on the water. I love to dive and have little money so we dive the conditions that are present. Some, like myself, deal with it by ice diving. Others fly or drive south to dive. This may be me if it keeps snowing today. I am sure if I had caves in my area I too would be a cave diver. For now I'm ice diver waiting for thick ice like a cave diver waits for the water to clear. Randy Sullivan Sault Ste. Marie, Ont sulteck@ic*.ne* -----Original Message----- From: Jon Guizar <jeg154@ps*.ed*> To: 'Nanci LeVake' <nlevake@pi*.co*>; Bob Sherwood <sherwood@st*.lr*.co*>; Techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Cc: cavers@ww*.ge*.co* <cavers@ww*.ge*.co*> Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 5:40 PM Subject: What Kind of diving are you doing? >Why would someone freeze their ass off to go 100 feet under the ice? If there is a mission to be accomplished, then do it. Take the necessary cave training, assume some responsibility for yourself and "the team" and do it. The cave line isn't going to BREAK. > >If you need to alter the order of entry based on the preference for visibility you should try cutting a hole in the ice where the water below is more than two feet deep. That way the vis wouldn't go to shit from people getting in and out. > >What's the big deal with finding the exit if a 10 foot walleye chews your cave line. Just go back to the point of entry the same way you would if it were open water. > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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